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The Last Reel: An Ode to 35-Millimeter Film

Op-Docs    NYT    17 April 2015

The Last Reel: An Ode to 35-Millimeter Film

Video    Op-Docs    The New York Times    17 April 2015

As cinemas across the United States

transition to digital projectors,

this short documentary

celebrates the beauty of traditional 35-millimeter film.

Produced by: Steven Bognar

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1POUyd9

Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAYhXRU6O4

The first cinema trip in 40 years

G    13 November 2009

The first cinema trip in 40 years

Video    The Guardian    13 November 2009

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDFoJW8UsQ

Children entering a movie theater in 1950

Photograph:  Paul Henderson

Maryland Historical Society/

Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society.

The forgotten cinemas of Baltimore – in pictures

Since the 1890s,

the city in Maryland has been home to more than 240 cinemas

and while many of these buildings have survived,

only a few of them still show films.

G

Thu 25 Oct 2018    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2018/oct/25/
the-forgotten-cinemas-of-baltimore-in-pictures

Children watching cartoons in movie theater.

Location: San Carlos, CA, US

Date taken: June 1946

Photograph: Charles E. Steinheimer

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f540f646f5b5db34.html - broken link

The Ideal, pictured here in 1938,

was a neighbourhood theater, with a 15-by-20ft screen.

It was a 21-day house,

meaning movies arrived 21 days

after opening downtown

Photograph:

Courtesy of the Robert K Headley Theatre Collection

The forgotten cinemas of Baltimore – in pictures

Since the 1890s,

the city in Maryland

has been home to more than 240 cinemas

and while many of these buildings have survived,

only a few of them still show films.

G

Thu 25 Oct 2018    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2018/oct/25/
the-forgotten-cinemas-of-baltimore-in-pictures

The Hippodrome in 1921

was a 2,300 seat vaudeville house and cinema.

It was renovated in 2004

to become a performing arts theatre

Photograph:

Courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society

The forgotten cinemas of Baltimore – in pictures

Since the 1890s,

the city in Maryland

has been home to more than 240 cinemas

and while many of these buildings have survived,

only a few of them still show films.

G

Thu 25 Oct 2018    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2018/oct/25/
the-forgotten-cinemas-of-baltimore-in-pictures

theatre        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/31/
avatar-2-and-glass-onion-prove-cinema-is-back-
but-too-late-to-save-theatres

movie theaters        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/
business/francis-ford-coppola-megalopolis-box-office.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/
1193899227/can-movie-theaters-sustain-the-barbie-boost

USA > theater        UK /USA

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/
movie-theater-experience-socialist-film-club-covid-19

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2018/oct/25/
the-forgotten-cinemas-of-baltimore-in-pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/us/
joe-patten-atlanta-theater-caretaker-known-as-phantom-of-the-fox-dies-at-89.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2016/01/15/
463115988/pop-culture-happy-hour-the-hateful-eight-and-theatrical-experiences

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/
business/media/hollywood-rebounds-at-the-box-office.html

cinema        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/
coronavirus-cinemas-business-models-creativity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/22/
tommy-review-ken-russells-the-who-rock-opera-pinball-wizard

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/feb/02/
screen-dreams-cinemas-of-the-world-in-pictures

NYC, USA > ‘Wonder Theater’ Movie Palaces        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/nyregion/
across-the-new-york-area-restoring-wonder-theater-movie-palaces-to-glory.html

USA > cinema        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2018/oct/25/
the-forgotten-cinemas-of-baltimore-in-pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/
movies/in-an-era-of-streaming-cinema-is-under-attack.html

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=7bDFoJW8UsQ - 13 November 2009

small cinemas        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/29/
268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

art-house cinemas        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/
theater/25itzk.html

repertory film houses        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/
movies/joanne-koch-dead.html

film clubs        USA

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/18/
film-cinema-clubs-screening-celluloid-revival

in cinemas

India > cinemas        USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/17/
1016114360/indias-single-screen-cinemas-were-struggling-before-covid-19-now-theyre-dying-ou

double bills / double feature        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/
movies/double-feature-movies-in-a-film-forum-retrospective.html

Sam Bishop, The Electric, Birmingham

‘The biggest challenge with projectionists

is that they work in near total darkness,’

says Nicholson.

‘I [had to] set up lights

to simulate the ambience of the projection room.

The Electric is Britain’s oldest working cinema.’

• The Projectionists is at Flatpack film festival, Birmingham,

20-24 April

• All photographs: © Richard Nicholson

Keeping it reel: the dying art of the film projectionist – in pictures

G

Tuesday 19 April 2016    07.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/apr/19/
keeping-it-reel-the-dying-art-of-the-film-projectionist-in-pictures

 projection booth        USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAYhXRU6O4

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/
29/268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

projectionist        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/
opinion/the-last-reel.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAYhXRU6O4 - NYT - 17 April 2015

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/30/
180051277/closing-night-ohio-movie-house-screens-its-last-reel-to-reel

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/29/
268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

film projectionist        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/apr/19/
keeping-it-reel-the-dying-art-of-the-film-projectionist-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/sep/18/
cinema-projectionist

35 millimeter projector /  reel-to-reel projectors        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/
opinion/the-last-reel.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/29/
268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/30/
180051277/closing-night-ohio-movie-house-screens-its-last-reel-to-reel

reel of film        UK / USA

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/30/
180051277/closing-night-ohio-movie-house-screens-its-last-reel-to-reel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/sep/18/
cinema-projectionist

35 millimeter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAYhXRU6O4

switch to digital / digital switch        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/29/
268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/30/
187328514/drive-ins-face-hollywood-s-digital-switch

 digital distribution        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/29/
268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/26/
266515266/paramount-cuts-film-giving-the-starring-role-to-digital

digital projector        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/29/
268438515/small-cinemas-struggle-as-film-fades-out-of-the-picture

3D        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/09/
conversation-3d-films-decline

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/12/
james-cameron-3d-film

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/14/
resident-evil-afterlife-trailer

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/
movies/03dargis.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/13/
3d-family

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/25/
avatar-trailer-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/21/
avatar-3d-film-james-cameron

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/21/
avatar-footage-screening-review-3d-james-cameron

3D animated feature        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/29/
ricky-gervais-flanimals

wear 3-D glasses

premiere        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2012/oct/23/
skyfall-james-bond-premiere-gallery

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2008/oct/30/
quantum-of-solace-james-bond-royal-premiere?picture=339146805

premiere-goer

see / watch        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/nov/26/
sofia-coppola-somewhere

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/25/us
elections2004.film

watchable        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/23/
training-day-review-denzel-washingtons-finest-most-sinister-hour

screen / screen / show        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/31/
helen-of-four-gates-film

small screen        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/may/20/
features.weekend

big screen        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/29/
ricky-gervais-flanimals

screening

hit the big screen

hit UK screens

picture house

Picture House cinema, Uckfield, East Sussex        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/sep/18/
cinema-projectionist

Clapham Picturehouse, London        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jan/22/
cine-files-clapham-picturehouse

old movie houses / main street theaters        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/us/
joe-patten-atlanta-theater-caretaker-known-as-phantom-of-the-fox-dies-at-89.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/us/
05theater.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/07/04/us/
20100705-THEATER.html

release

re-release        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/aug/07/
why-to-catch-a-thief-is-the-one-film-you-should-watch-this-week-video

print

new print

art house film

mainstream movie

mainstream        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/21/
brothers-sheridan-review

theatrical marketplace

art-film market

cinema-going

cinemagoer        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/dec/20/
news

Why do disabled cinemagoers

get the worst seats in the house?        UK        2011

An undercover investigation

by the Muscular Dystrophy

Campaign's Trailblazers

has exposed the widespread

second-class service

people with disabilities

experience in UK cinemas.

Trailblazers' Tanvi Vyas

introduces the group's findings

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/aug/25/
disabled-cinemagoers-worst-seats-campaign

movie-goers / moviegoers        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/
movies/anthony-hinds-who-scared-british-moviegoers-dies-at-91.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/
movies/awardsseason/feisty-host-and-feisty-winners-on-golden-globes.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/
movies/elizabeth-taylor-obituary.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/
movies/31ford.html

casual moviegoer        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/
movies/new-movies-this-week-critics.html

avid buff        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/
movies/new-movies-this-week-critics.html

admissions

cinema multiplexes

mutiplexes        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/
business/media/movie-theaters-ticket-prices.html

audience    USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/
1008188027/what-hollywood-could-learn-
from-the-20-year-success-of-fast-furious

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/
movies/audiences-are-finding-diversity-at-summer-movies.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/
movies/awardsseason/07Scott.html

preview

preview screening

coming to a screen near you

streaming        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/
movies/in-an-era-of-streaming-cinema-is-under-attack.html

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