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Re: Digital Projectors in Movie Theaters

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Posted by Doug Schneider on April 10, 2002 at 06:55:14

In Reply to: Digital Projectors in Movie Theaters posted by Klaaren on April 9, 2002 at 19:22:34:

Don't get too excited just yet. Anything I've seen in DLP has been dreadful. Critic Roger Ebert has been actively campaigning against DLP in theaters. Here's an interesting question and answer from his site. I think that pretty soon we're going to have another analog/digital debate, but this time, at the movies.
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Q. I read Ross Anthony's review of "The Rookie" (http://rossanthony.com/) and he claims the entire movie was shot on video (not film). I cannot find any facts to support that view.

Herb Kane, criticdoctor.com

A. Anthony gives several reasons why he thinks "The Rookie" was shot on video, including jittery tracking shots, pastiness in long shots, and washed-out color. The print I saw looked superb. It may be Anthony saw it projected on video. For a verdict, I turned to Steven Poster, president of the American Society of Cinematographers, who responds: "The movie was shot Wide Screen Anamorphic, Panavision 'C' series lenses with Kodak 5277 Emulsion. Nothing but the best for my friend John Schwartzman. What Anthony might have seen is a digitally-projected presentation at the El Capitian theater. And that would go to prove what you and I believe in our hearts; not only is film not dead, it doesn't even have a cold. I've seen the same kind of junky-looking presentations from digitally-presented movies before. It's just not even close to film yet."

P.S. Poster's guess was on the money. Ross Anthony writes me that he did indeed see the film projected digitally, has been discussing differences between film and video projection with Schwartzman, and will be writing about this experience.

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