formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
The wonderful Vintage Mobile Cinema has relaunched their website providing more information and content about this unique traveling cinema. For anyone that hasn’t followed the story of this amazing piece of cinema and industrial heritage. In 1967, The Ministry of … Continued
Last night I was lucky enough to watch a documentary entitled ‘The Final Reel’ Documentary at the wonderful Regent Street Cinema as part of the 50th-anniversary celebrations for the Cinema Theatre Association. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/174196220 @thefinalreeldoc
Made in 1956 by the U.S. Navy, this film shows a history of the motion picture beginning with the optical toys and the persistence of vision devices that preceded the motion picture. Thomas Edison’s pioneering work is shown, as is … Continued
SMPTE finalized standards for SMPTE D-Cinema packages in 2009. So why is the industry still delivering non-standard Interop packages? We’ll review the building blocks of the SMPTE DCP, the benefits of transitioning to SMPTE distribution packages, an overview of our … Continued
Introduction In 2015, either myself or my deputy editor Vicky Mansfield, posted nearly 2000 news stories to this website, covering a variety of different topics, bringing the total stories available to over 13,000 and means that an average of 5 … Continued
This 12-minute film created by Joseph O. Holmes features clips from 50 different films that take place in a projection booth, from Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock, Jr.” all the way up to Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.