Word: celluloid
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Ernest Hemingway was so embittered by his experiences in Hollywood that he formulated what might be called Hemingway's Rule for Dealing with the Celluloid Bastards: Drive your car up to the California state line. Take your manuscript out of the car. Make them throw the money across first. Toss them the manuscript, get back in the car and drive back east as fast...
Hollywood and Silicon Valley have never mixed well. You've got cinéastes vs. nerds, celluloid vs. digital, silicone vs. silicon. Then there is Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
...dispassionate, journalistic demeanor and becomes completely unhinged. Imagine “The Blair Witch Project†written and directed by George Orwell—that is the terrifying power of “Punishment.†“Punishment†makes the transition from celluloid to DVD quite well. Though originally shot on 16 mm stock, the DVD transfer is re-mastered from “blown-up†35 mm reels. The film’s image clarity is high, and the color separation is quite good. A few frames are marred by dust...
...film had played every day for more than a month - but not once did it shudder, skip or pop out of focus. This picture-perfect vision comes courtesy of a brand-new digital cinema system, a combination of high-tech projector and computer server that could one day kick celluloid out of the projection booth for good. The old mechanism ran 3,600 m of delicate 35-mm film through a series of giant reels. Every screening added another layer of blips and blotches to the film. The new system plays the movie from the server at the touch...
...industry insists that a prettier picture isn't the only reason bytes are better. Right now, Hollywood might spend over $1 billion a year manufacturing and distributing film copies. Digital could slash that: the prints can be made for a fifth of the cost of celluloid ones and, stored on a hard drive the size of a paperback, they are easier and cheaper to transport than heavy, bulky reels. (Eventually, films could be sent to cinemas by satellite or cable, cutting out transportation costs altogether.) A more diverse range of films could be offered, too, because studios could afford...