formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
On the third floor of his mansion in Rochester, NY, George Eastman, founder of Kodak and inventor of motion picture film, had a screen that pulled down from the ceiling. He used it to show movies to friends. Source: Kodak … Continued
On the third floor of his mansion in Rochester, NY, George Eastman, founder of Kodak and inventor of motion picture film, had a screen that pulled down from the ceiling. He used it to show movies to friends. Source: Kodak … Continued
A University of Wisconsin–Madison group has just published results from a six-year exploration of old, unstable film stock that nevertheless holds the oldest heritage of moving pictures. Source: Fire in a crowded theater? Nitrate film is crumbling as experts strive … Continued
The Film Foundation, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), in conjunction with the American Cinematheque and the Academy Film Archive, today announced a partnership to ensure that the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood … Continued
Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre will soon have the capability to screen “rare and fragile” 35mm nitrate film prints thanks to a film preservation project undertaken by The Film Foundation, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and Turner Classic Movies, in conjunction with the … Continued