formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
A day in the life of Mike Katz, the last of a dying breed—much to the chagrin of a new generation of finicky, 70mm-loving auteurs. Source: For Old-School Film Projectionists, the Pictures Never Got Small | Vanity Fair
On the third floor of his mansion in Rochester, NY, George Eastman, founder of Kodak and inventor of motion picture film, had a screen that pulled down from the ceiling. He used it to show movies to friends. Source: Kodak … Continued
On the third floor of his mansion in Rochester, NY, George Eastman, founder of Kodak and inventor of motion picture film, had a screen that pulled down from the ceiling. He used it to show movies to friends. Source: Kodak … Continued
The workshops offer different levels of training aimed at increasing the sustainability and support of film exhibition far into the foreseeable future. Source: The Association of Moving Image Archivists – Projection Workshop
In a filmed introduction to “This Is Cinerama” (1952), the broadcaster Lowell Thomas didn’t simply explain the wide-screen format that viewers were about to see. He narrated a history of art, from cave painting to the Sistine Chapel to early … Continued
Now in its 15th season, the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” surveys significant film-restoration projects from archives around the world. Running Jan. 18 through Feb. 1, it’s also a primer on world cinema and an introduction to … Continued