Douglas Trumbull Advocates Higher Frame Rates at SMPTE

Pioneering filmmaker and inventor Douglas Trumbull — whose visual effects credits include 2001: A Space Odyssey and whose inventions include ShowScan, a large format system that incorporated 65mm film, shooting at 60 frames per second (fps) — continued to advocate the use of higher frame rates in motion picture production and exhibition Wednesday at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.