Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film. | dG1fT0xuMDNEb09paWM

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:06 Have you ever looked back on your life to a year where it felt like everything important to you first began?

00:12 The 80s were a wonderful time to catch up on old Hollywood.

00:15 The prints were available, the old cinemas were still available.

00:19 You would pat the projector at the end of the night, say "Oh good job" and that way you kept them happy

00:23 and the next day they'd come and perform well for you again, if you're lucky.

00:27 Then overnight, digital projection changed the way we see movies forever.

00:32 We sort of knew it was coming, but we didn't really have a sense of what it could mean.

00:37 And now, it's threatening to change the way we'll remember them.

00:41 A film running through a projector is transferred to an audience.

00:46 I think there is a life to that image.

00:49 There are hundreds, if not thousands of reels of unidentified films sitting in archives throughout the world.

00:54 People have their little fiefdoms and whatever and whatnot.

00:57 Well, shouldn't the importance be to save the films?

01:00 The preciousness of this print, I cannot tell you how it makes you feel.

01:06 The argument that "Well, my kids won't watch Black and White."

01:09 One of two things has to happen. Your kids have to grow up.

01:12 Hey, I saw a photocopy of the Mona Lisa. I know what the Mona Lisa looks like.

01:16 Technically, you do know what the Mona Lisa looks like, but you haven't seen it.

01:20 Film has a substance which is entirely lacking in what I basically think is big screen television.

01:27 That's bologna.

01:29 Are we the last generation to be able to see movies this way?

01:34 Yes.

01:35 The art form of projector film is on its way out. Not because it's not good.

01:40 Wow! You forget how good it is.

01:46 The only people who are seeing this risk in any degree are the people who are actually displaced, the projectionists.

01:55 [Music]