I'm quite skeptical about all these reports about the death of film we are suddenly seeing. They seem to frequently turn out to have little substance to them on further examination.
Aside from which, that last article seems to be more about the death of cinema and the rise of video projection, than 35mm film per se. I'd suggest it's more written from the point of view that the united states is the whole world than first world arrogance per se.
It's interesting to notice that News Corp were implicated in that article too.
Check out this classic News Corp letter thats doing the rounds at the moment!
It's got that perfect mix of friendlyness and vaguely threatening going on that News Corp do so well. Sort of "you WILL comply or we will make things very difficult for you!"
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f16/t000949.html
I'm suspecting that many of these recent articles are planted for commercial reasons.
love
Freya
--- On Wed, 11/16/11, Alex McCarron <alex.mccarron_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] MSNBC: "Report: 35mm film will be dead by 2015"
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Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 6:00 PM
That's a hell of a spin. Do they have the money to keep Kodak in business? I'd figure it would be more likely small theaters in India would be snatching up nicer consumer grade projectors from Best Buy Bombay as quality improves and expectations for quality drops and a point of acceptable mediocrity is reached which seems to be the trend for culture of the future.
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