Death of Film: A century of post goes down the drain

Besides the raw realities of cinematography, the loss of film processsing signals the end of a wonderful industrial infrastructure. Processing and film post-production has clicked through the sprocket
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Besides the raw realities of cinematography, the loss of film processsing signals the end of a wonderful industrial infrastructure. Processing and film post-production has clicked through the sprocket holes from the dawn of cinema, for more than a century of extraordinary precision. To Dominic Case, this is the lost land of his professional youth.

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Dominic Case
About the Author
Dominic Case was the Technology Manager for the Atlab Group for many years, and on the Board of the AFC during the period that the NFSA was a part of that organisation. He also worked for the NFSA briefly as head of the Film Branch, and for a year as Development Manager. He gave a paper at the last SMPTE conference on the difficulties faced by film archives in the digital era.