The end of film? First studio stops distributing celluloid

[lxdude]

I've seen some of those splices, fortunately not during the show. One was at a check screening of a print for the Australian premiere of "The Piano" and it was my humble duty to make sure everything was ship shape. I was less than amused to see the leading lady jump several metres across the set because the projectionist had "fixed" some damage in the print by ripping several feet out and resplicing.

It took some hours and God's blessing to find an undamaged print in Australia in the couple of hours before the show. I would have preferred a total digital breakdown rather than some cackhanded dopey projectionist "helping" us out. Furthermore the director, Jane Campion, would be likely to have my intestines for garters had this proceeded.

Too bad they didn't see fit to send a brand new print for the Australian premiere, especially with the director present.

 

[Rudeofus]

You said it, man! Exactly my thinking. And as a bonus, no more having to put up with other people's chatter and their cell phones going off.

You will seriously miss something if you don't go to movie theaters, like this for example ...

 

[Dr Croubie]

You will seriously miss something if you don't go to movie theaters, like this for example ...

Yeah, or this

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

The producers of "Skyfall" were probably extremely proud of all the high-ISO stunts they could pull with their new capture medium and wanted to show off these new capabilities at their best. Excitement about a new medium does not create interesting pictures, though. Maybe we will see a phase where this excitement fades out and directors start making decent looking movies again.

Uncanny similarity to computer generated content. If done tastefully it can be almost seamless.

Let's hope it's a fad.

 

[StoneNYC]

You will seriously miss something if you don't go to movie theaters, like this for example ...

Wow, cops are so stupid...

Yeah, or this

Wow, that will teach people to stop texting in theaters...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Wow, that will teach people to stop texting in theaters...

I doubt that he will ever text in a movie theater again.

 

[StoneNYC]

I doubt that he will ever text in a movie theater again.

I live in a very urban area, if that happened here, there might be a few people shot, and certainly more with guns.

I once had to report someone. He threatened me after the employee came in to talk to him.

 

[AgX]

Wow, cops are so stupid...

Not the cops are stupid. But that guy with that glasses on.

 

[StoneNYC]

Not the cops are stupid. But that guy with that glasses on.

I don't think so, he was wearing his glasses, they are high tech but he shut them off, everyone knows the light on the end of the video camera is always on if it's on... So it was off, and no one simply checked the camera first... They are all morons, you also don't just grab someone, you ask them politely to step out and then ask them basic questions, the whole thing could have been solved if the guy directed them to turn it on themeselves and review the video footage...

 

[lxdude]

Note to self:
Shoot the phone, not the guy holding it.

 

[MFstooges]

Movie pirates should rejoice. They can make hundred and hundred of lossless copies and with cheaper cost.

 

[Rudeofus]

Not the cops are stupid. But that guy with that glasses on.

In Soviet Russia there was this joke about three legged dogs running across the border, because police had been ordered to shoot all three legged dogs. When a four legged dog was asked why he also ran, he answered: "they shoot first, then count". This movie theater situation reminds me very much of this joke, and we should be worried by the fact, that it happened not in Soviet Russia, but in the so called free world.

 

[StoneNYC]

In Soviet Russia there was this joke about three legged dogs running across the border, because police had been ordered to shoot all three legged dogs. When a four legged dog was asked why he also ran, he answered: "they shoot first, then count". This movie theater situation reminds me very much of this joke, and we should be worried by the fact, that it happened not in Soviet Russia, but in the so called free world.

With the TSA and other acts recently like holding you without a phone call, basically you have a better chance in Russia where you can pay the guy off to get out of jail...

 

[StoneNYC]

Movie pirates should rejoice. They can make hundred and hundred of lossless copies and with cheaper cost.

With the google glass device you could go to the theater and watch, and your mate could be home and watch what you're watching in their google glass! Hahah!

 

[Photo Engineer]

This goes on and on while Kodak has over 1B $ in their kitty from Sony entertainment. I believe that the contract is for 5 years. So, you can count on film for at least that long and at least from divisions of Sony.

PE

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Maybe not

Movie pirates should rejoice. They can make hundred and hundred of lossless copies and with cheaper cost.

Some films get pirated today by delivery drivers taking the prints to a digitizing facility. To stop that, a lot of theaters get a heads up on a delivery and are encourage to report any late deliveries. Now, it's all encrypted satellite transmissions. I'm sure some cleaver hacker will find a way to break the encryption like what happened to DVDs. The movie and music industry is always try to stay one step ahead of the pirates. If you want free or cheap movies, travel to Asia. You can buy perfect copies of DVDs with nice packaging for about a $1.

 

[StoneNYC]

This goes on and on while Kodak has over 1B $ in their kitty from Sony entertainment. I believe that the contract is for 5 years. So, you can count on film for at least that long and at least from divisions of Sony.

PE

Let's hope they don't just blow all the money and save some of it for a rainy day...

 

[Photo Engineer]

They will probably develop a new printer!

 

[StoneNYC]

They will probably develop a new printer!

Ink? :/ blah...

 

[Ross Chambers]

Too bad they didn't see fit to send a brand new print for the Australian premiere, especially with the director present.

Agree. At that point the print supply was in the distributor's hands. I suspect that one of these two prints was from a master neg not an intermediate, had been to Cannes and was on that occasion in good shape and considered fit for local premiere, but not so.

 

[Dr Croubie]

Some films get pirated today by delivery drivers taking the prints to a digitizing facility. To stop that, a lot of theaters get a heads up on a delivery and are encourage to report any late deliveries. Now, it's all encrypted satellite transmissions. I'm sure some cleaver hacker will find a way to break the encryption like what happened to DVDs. The movie and music industry is always try to stay one step ahead of the pirates. If you want free or cheap movies, travel to Asia. You can buy perfect copies of DVDs with nice packaging for about a $1.

Give it 10 years when all the old projectors and digitisers have been junked, and some genius will come up with the idea of sending out film prints as a way to beat all the pirates hacking encrypted satellite transmissions...

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Maybe...

Give it 10 years when all the old projectors and digitisers have been junked, and some genius will come up with the idea of sending out film prints as a way to beat all the pirates hacking encrypted satellite transmissions...

A catapault? Or use of of Amazon's drones.

 

[DREW WILEY]

I wonder if our gigantic hole in the ground up the street, which is going to become the new Pacific Film Archive, is going to actually show film.
Otherwise they should be honest enough to rename it as the Pacific Pixel Archive. Oh well, between that new UC building and the latest Forrest Gump football scholarship fund, there's only going to be a few thousand exceptional Calif students each year who can't afford to attend there anymore.

 

[PKM-25]

I keep saying how many young people I run into that *LOVE* shooting film and how they are not only not jaded from losing products that very few ever used but are amazed at how many great films there are out there.

So every year, I shoot black and white at the Winter X Games and this year it is some of my Kodak HIE in 35mm & 120. Today, this 21 year old woman was over the moon to see me shooting a Nikon FM3A and Hasselblad. We talked for awhile and she really echoed what I have been telling you all for years, stop pining for what we no longer have, get out and crush it with fresh imagery on film, because that is what moves film forward, not AARP conventions of how it used to be....

 

[StoneNYC]

I keep saying how many young people I run into that *LOVE* shooting film and how they are not only not jaded from losing products that very few ever used but are amazed at how many great films there are out there.

So every year, I shoot black and white at the Winter X Games and this year it is some of my Kodak HIE in 35mm & 120. Today, this 21 year old woman was over the moon to see me shooting a Nikon FM3A and Hasselblad. We talked for awhile and she really echoed what I have been telling you all for years, stop pining for what we no longer have, get out and crush it with fresh imagery on film, because that is what moves film forward, not AARP conventions of how it used to be....

Cool, do you ever use an IR filter with HIE or not? Glad you keep on going.