Christopher Nolan asked IMAX if the film reels for "Oppenheimer" could fit in their projectors. The three-hour-long film has a reel that's 11 miles long and weighs 600 pounds, per AP. Nolan told ...

The Kodak Reels Film Digitizer converts old reels of 8mm and Super 8 film for the digital generation. Even if you’ve got a pile of old film reels stashed away somewhere in the family archive, the ...

When John Cavaliere ripped up Lyric Hall’s floors for renovations, he struck oil. Motor oil, that is. It “started wicking up” from the ground, Cavaliere told me over homemade pizza, tea, and cookies ...

There’s a soft, rhythmic patter behind you—the mechanical whisper of film spooling through a projector. A cone of light beams from the projection booth, flickering overhead as it lands on the screen.

The projector whirs as film stock unspools into chugging machinery and diligent projectionists strain to lug large metal containers across a cluttered room. This is a common scene in FilmScene’s ...

He said he began planning a decade ago to purchase digital projectors. The signs of an imminent changeover were plentiful and began appearing years ago, Cohen said, including the larger circuits, like ...

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.

From 2015 until 2021, I worked regularly as one of the projectionists at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, California. The New Beverly Cinema is a repertory cinema that is owned by filmmaker ...