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To: Andrew who wrote (81691)	2/7/2002 5:15:26 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116858

Digital is at present a more expensive technology than silver to shoot. It will still be distributed on silver reels as that is the installed base of show presentation for some time to come. Theatre owners will not en masse switch to pixel screens if they could afford it, which I doubt they will for a while to come (25 years). That at present does not compete anyway, at any price. Digital is fine if all your backdrop is phony, or stage or computer made. Computer backdrop a-la "Titanic" still has a ways to go to appear real. In suspending disbelief we still note that the Titanic did not look real. The German movie of the 1950's that used models was more realistic in long shots. But if you are shooting a Western about the Gold Rush and want the Sierra Madres or a rebel army in a town in a long shot, then I would suggest that it won't play unless you use the real thing, a long lense and silver film. Compare Todd AO (3 cameras, partial 3D and 80 MM) and a mountain scene from say the Magnificent Seven to the long shots of the Titanic and you will see instantly where the real backdrop in silver is breathtaking, whilst the computer generated stuff is merely not so phony that it is distracting. With video or pixel cam, the mountains would look like fuzzy grey pimples behind the star's head. With silver you realize in a hearbeat that the Donner party will not make it over those snowy passes this year. (These are called production values, technical things that because of the quality of the cinematography frinstance, influence the audience to get involved in and believe or be influenced by the the film. i.e. Polanski - Tess.) Try making a movie of the deep sea or the Himalayas with Video or pixel cam. Pan to a background shot. Nyet. Feggahdaboudid. If you want all movies to cost what Lucas pays to make a movie, fine, use digital. Remember that digital generated background costs money. All those Linux computers running for 9 months to generate all your background costs. Cause you ain't gonna get the resolution to define background outdoors with a pixelcam. EC<:-}