Friday, November 26, 2010

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Tribute to the coils that have disappeared from my

I had heard during the strike projectionists early July but it has been there a few weeks, the coils have disappeared from the UGC, now replaced by files computer from a digital projector.

Some say it's the march of progress but also the end of a long time and it is always sad. So I do

will not be fatalistic: yes, in a digital projection, the image is sharper. Yes, the time between the end of pubs and the beginning of the film is reduced to 3 seconds. And yes, in a few months, I would have probably done.

But still, it bothers me on three points: First

, a coil, since it was created, it's bound to 200% film. While a digital screening, for me it connoted "video" and it gives me the impression of coming from someone who has a great home theater.

Second, even if the image is sharp, in a film subtitled in VO, the contours pixellisent letters a bit. And Pixel, it reminds the computer. Again, the distance from the film.

Finally, it removes a good dose of glamor and human part to the cinema knowing that his back is no longer a projectionist who is ensuring the proper screening of the film but a software engineer who has to work from his office in miles of where it should probably handle multiple rooms at the same time ... It has already turned cashiers and replacing them with machines, it has now withdrawn projectionists. So I bet that the next jump will be sellers of popcorn that will be replaced by distributors ...

It's sad when just the end of an era. But as Eddy Mitchell sang:

"It was really good childhood
But this is the last sequence
And the curtain fell on the screen
"




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