Between the aisles of a packed ballroom, SMPTE President Ed Hobson opened a large silver canister of 35mm print film and rolled the black spool down the aisle.
There in that canister was the standard for film, he said to the crowd, there for the first annual digital cinema summit sponsored by SMPTE at an NAB convention. Take it to any theater, anywhere in the country, and loop that film onto a standard film projector. And voila, the images would appear.