DCI or DIE: Classic movie houses make the move to digital

“The time has come. The Capri Theatre needs to get digital.” Continuously operating since 1941—when the first neighborhood theatre in Montgomery, Alabama, was still known as The Clover—the Capri Community Film Society, its nonprofit operator since 1983, was faced with the daunting task to go “DCI or DIE.” (We gratefully—and with permission—borrowed those catchy words for our headline.) Noting “the studios made us do it,” cinema director Martin McCaffery launched a Kickstarter campaign in April, ultimately raising more than the $80,000 requested, in addition to “a generous grant” from The Daniel Foundation of Birmingham that provided the first $25,000. DCI it is.