{"id":44300,"date":"2014-08-11T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/digital-killed-the-movie-reel-stars.html"},"modified":"2014-08-12T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:45:04","slug":"digital-killed-the-movie-reel-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/digital-killed-the-movie-reel-stars.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital killed the movie reel stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">An interesting, if sometimes over-glurdgy, documentary on the end of film reel projection at movie theaters, as studios move to shipping just digital versions of their movies, replacing massive reels of celluloid with removable hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s fascinating to see how the projection and film reels all work together, a culmination of technology a century or so old. That said, the sad lamentations of how digital film watching just &quot;isn&#39;t the same&quot; strikes me as akin to the vinyl-vs-CD debates &#8212; I don&#39;t need the soft clackity-clack of the projector in the quiet scenes to feel like I&#39;m watching a &quot;real&quot; movie. I&#39;m sorry to see skilled people losing their jobs, but I&#39;m not sure that&#39;s a reason to not see this technology change.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/101235645' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Sw89UwbroV8' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting, if sometimes over-glurdgy, documentary on the end of film reel projection at movie theaters, as studios move to shipping just digital versions of their movies, replacing massive reels of celluloid with removable hard drives. It&#39;s fascinating to see how the projection and film reels all work together, a culmination of technology a century &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/digital-killed-the-movie-reel-stars.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital killed the movie reel stars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27533,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/fuzzy-feet-and-faster-frame-rates.html","url_meta":{"origin":44300,"position":0},"title":"Fuzzy Feet and Faster Frame-Rates","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Apr-12 7:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Technological changes coming to a theater near you in support of The Hobbit this Christmas.(And let me let out an old LotR-era shout of Glee! that we'll have a Jackson\/Tolkien film once again this holiday season.)The other cool thing in the short article is the massive amount of video data\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":155817,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/04\/my-movie-watching-year-in-review-2021-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":44300,"position":1},"title":"My Movie-Watching Year in Review (2021 Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jan-22 3:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a lot of theater-going, but an MCU rewatch helped the numbers","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/marvel-cinematic-universe"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135132,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/father-daughter-movie-week-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":44300,"position":2},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 10:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie was out of town on business this week, which should have meant lots of movies for +Kay Hill and myself. 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