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Pandora’s digital box: Art house, smart house
The Art Theater, Champaign, Illinois. Photo by Sanford Hess, reproduced with permission. DB here: Theatres’ conversion from 35mm film to digital presentation was designed by and for an industry that...
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Pandora’s digital box: Pix and pixels
Peter Rotsaert and Vico De Vocht examine a digital version of a silent film at the Brussels Cinematek. DB here: Today Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, has fewer than two thousand people,...
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Pandora’s digital box: Notes on NOCs
A video-wall display in the Christie Network Operations Center, Cypress, California. DB here: You’re in a multiplex. The pre-show attractions are large, loud promotions for TV shows, pop music, and...
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Pandora’s digital box: From films to files
“Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it, but I never figured I’d be going there.” DB here: Actually it wasn’t originally a box but a jug. And it might not have been filled with all the...
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Pandora’s digital box: Harmony
DB here: I had thought I was finished with my series on digital projection that started back in December. That was before a late-night trawl of the Internets brought the JEM Theatre to my attention....
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PANDORA’s digital book
DB here: Looking back at Kristin’s and my ventures online, I see a gradually expanding series of experiments. Step by step, maybe too cautiously, we’ve moved toward what you might call “para-academic”...
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Pandora’s digital box: End times
35mm projection booth at Market Square Cinema, Madison, Wisconsin; 10 May 2013. DB here: When exactly did film end? According to the mass-market press, here are some terminal dates. July 2011:...
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Picking up the pieces; or, a Blog about previous blogs
A not-so-intimate bedroom scene from Cinerama Holiday (1955). DB here: Many of our blog entries are written in response to current events–a new movie, a film festival in progress, a development in...
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Dispatch from another 35mm outpost. With cats.
Cinema Theater, 1985, with JoAnn Morreale. DB here: For a while now I’ve been tracking the consolidation of digital cinema. After a blog series, I melded the entries with other information and created...
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The movie experience as format: A 3D state of the union
Kristin here: On February 13, the day after I posted my blog entry, “3D in 2019: Real Dvided?,” I received an email message from Belgian film critic David Vanden Bossche. He had been intrigued enough...
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