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Topic: Looking for thoughts from those who have run a 'Classic Film Series'
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Mitchell Dvoskin
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1869
From: West Milford, NJ, USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-24-2011 09:06 AM
> Basically what you're saying is the story, characters, and performances are all secondary to the way the picture is presented.
No. What is being said is that if you are running video, we can see that at home, and those of us who care about seeing it big, can see it proportionally big at home. We go out to see classic films to experience it as the original audience did, not an electronic reproduction of it.
Look at it this way, how many people would go to art museums if they replaced their oil paintings with actual size photo's of them? It may look the same to many, but not to those who care. It would not be the same experience.
Finally, hiding consumer video behind the word DIGITAL is getting old fast, and trashing the words value for promotion. A patron who sees a crappy DIGITAL presentation will not know or care that it came from a DVD, they will look upon all DIGITAL as crappy, or at least inconsistent in quality. That will not be a good thing.
My favorite way of annoying theatre managers is when they say it is a DIGITAL presentation, I ask "are you streaming this from Netflix?". DIGITAL means nothing, all current consumer video is digital.
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Edward Havens
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 614
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Mar 2008
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posted 10-24-2011 10:09 AM
quote: Mitchell Dvoskin
We go out to see classic films to experience it as the original audience did, not an electronic reproduction of it.
Of course, the irony of this statement is that, even if you see a 35mm print of a classic movie like The Wizard of Oz or Gone With the Wind today, 99.99% of the time it's not going to be the same experience as the original audience. The print is likely to not be the same kind of film base as the original audience saw, not out of the same kind of projectors, in the same kind of theatre, with the same kind of sound system.
So the question becomes whether it's more important to present classic titles with the best presentation one is possible of, or only presenting these films if one can duplicate the exact experience as the original release. The vast majority of us cannot do the latter, but if we can do the former and do it well, then that is more than merely acceptable.
After all, why do we go out to the movies at all? Why do we not wait for everything to be available on Blu-Ray or Netflix or VOD or HBO or ABC Family? It's because going out to a cinema and experiencing a movie with others is important to us on a social level, and it's important to us to get out of our dwellings from time to time. It's not only about the movie or the way it is presented.
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