Nowadays, most business orientation guides for employees are on DVD or are streamed over the Web, but you can still find relevant information on 8mm or 16mm film reels, so you may need to learn how to ...

Today, most believe film projectors are relics of a bygone era. The pace of technology and the difficulty of acquiring film means that, over the years, theaters have dropped the analog format one by ...

This past February, an unconventional delegation from Barco made the trek from Ghent to Los Angeles. Clad in bowties and evening gowns, this crew of execs and engineers cut dashing figures on a ...

On a recent afternoon, Somerville Theatre projectionist David Kornfeld was waiting for his cue. Kornfeld peered out from the booth’s port window, watching the 35mm print of “Fear and Loathing in Las ...

We delve into the topic of IMAX projection systems, as a technical format and exhibition standard, and look to its future. The history of film production involves, perhaps famously and perhaps ...

Three Cinemark theaters will be outfitted with new projection systems, capable of screening movies shot with 70mm film. IMAX and Cinemark announced on Oct. 27 that IMAX 70mm film projection systems ...

Up in the projection booth at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn, head projectionist Tanner Agle tinkers with a 70 mm projector. “I’m hitting this green button start,” he said, as the projector ...

All the crafts that I’ve practiced in my life I’ve done knowing they are either dead or dying. I have a master’s degree in poetry. I was an investigative journalist at a nonprofit that closed due to ...

Excerpted from Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture by Haidee Wasson, published by the University of California Press ...

Before he became a film critic, NPR's Bob Mondello worked for a chain of movie theaters. He spent a lot of time in projection booths back then, and it had been a while since Bob climbed those stairs.

You probably didn’t know Steve Livernash, but you almost certainly bathed in his light. Livernash, who died Monday at 77 after a battle with cancer, was among the last of the old-school Boston movie ...

The bar for a mainstream projector went way up this year, thanks to an invasion of high-quality laser projectors. My pick for ...