The Big Picture

A few months ago, Grand Traverse and Horizon cinemas in Traverse City ditched most of their traditional film projectors and switched over to digital projectors. The switch meant good-bye to celluloid movie film and hello to hard drives. Unlike a movie reel that must be carefully unpacked and spliced together, the projectionist simply plugs the hard drive into a projector, punches in the movie times and appropriate trailers, and voila! It