RE: filmscanners: real value?

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

Gee, there are a number of 10-18 screen multiplexes where I live; do they
count as movie theaters?  I have actually gone to see movies in them also;
but there are many people in my university town who got to see movies in
these multiplexes every week and throughout the week.  They always seem
crowded. Either they have died a different sort of death than that which I
am familiar with or I am hallucinating. :-)

In fact, since the introduction of television and even with the introduction
of video tapes, these theaters seem to thrive at best and survive at worst
in contrast to disappearing; and in this area, they all show 35mm movies to
boot.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:43 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: real value?




35mm film will go the way of the do-do, just as movies theaters did when
television started showing films, and later when videotaped movies came
out.  I haven't seen a movie theater in decades, have you?

However, in fairness, 8mm movie film has become a rarity since video
camcorders.  What gets to live or die does, in part, depend upon how
successfully the new technology replaces and if possible improves upon
the old one.

Art