What it Will Take to Present Tarantino Film in Ultra Panavision
First, 97 percent of the 40,000 screens in the U.S. now use digital projection, says the National Association of Theater Owners. Many old projectors were destroyed after the transition; Cutler says they began to hunt for projectors in January and continued until September.
After finding projectors, some dating to the 1950s, Boston Light & Sound had to replace gears, shafts, bearings and rollers, sometimes manufacturing their own based on original blueprints.
Boston Light & Sound will also train existing projectionists and bring in professional projectionists as well as technical staff. Sasaki expresses cinephile’s fond hope: “[Quentin Tarantino] built up this infrastructure which is going to open up the floodgates for potential use.”
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