The Death of Cinema
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- In the beginning, three very simple things made everything happen for the cinema: lights, camera, and action. And this was true for both the making of the film and our viewing experience. If people wanted to watch a movie, they needed a projector, a dimly lit theatre and someone to put in the reel. But that was also the only place and action to see it happen. You couldn’t just see it anywhere else unless you had the right tools, let alone the actual film reel, to do so.
But what changed everything was technology. From here, we get CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, HD discs, and television screens. All of a sudden, movies were more portable than ever, which created blockbusters and video rental stores that, then, too, were superseded by the age of streaming.
This is also why, in the process, the cinema experience has changed over time to the point where I begin to question: Will it actually be around in the near future? I’m not talking about 200 or 500 years from now. But what about by the turn of the next century?
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What is a Movie Theater?
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment. Most are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing tickets.
The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds. Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film print on a heavy reel.
A great variety of films are shown at cinemas, ranging from animated films to blockbusters to documentaries. The smallest movie theaters have a single viewing room with a single screen. In the 2010s, most movie theaters had multiple screens. The largest theater complexes, which are called multiplexes-a concept developed in Canada in the 1950s-have up to thirty screens. The audience members often sit on padded seats, which in most theaters are set on a sloped floor, with the highest part at the rear of the theater. Movie theaters often sell soft drinks, popcorn and candy, and some theaters sell hot fast food. In some jurisdictions, movie theaters can be licensed to sell alcoholic drinks.
Movie theatres stand in a long tradition of theaters that could house all kinds of entertainment. Some forms of theatrical entertainment would involve the screening of moving images and can be regarded as precursors of film.
In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard "Robertson" Robert moved his Phantasmagorie show to an abandoned cloister near the Place Vendôme in Paris. The eerie surroundings, with a graveyard and ruins, formed an ideal location for his ghostraising spectacle.
When it opened in 1838, The Royal Polytechnic Institution in London became a very popular and influential venue with all kinds of magic lantern shows as an important part of its program. At the main theatre, with 500 seats, lanternists would make good use of a battery of six large lanterns running on tracked tables to project the finely detailed images of extra large slides on the 648 square feet screen. The magic lantern was used to illustrate lectures, concerts, pantomimes and other forms of theatre. Popular magic lantern presentations included phantasmagoria, mechanical slides, Henry Langdon Childe's dissolving views and his chromatrope.
The earliest known public screening of projected stroboscopic animation was presented by Austrian magician Ludwig Döbler on 15 January 1847 at the Josephstadt Theatre in Vienna, with his patented Phantaskop. The animated spectacle was part of a well-received show that sold out in several European cities during a tour that lasted until the spring of 1848.
The famous Parisian entertainment venue Le Chat Noir opened in 1881 and is remembered for its shadow plays, renewing the popularity of such shows in France.
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I remember having to wait like 6 months for a DVD release. Everything is almost instantaneous now.
How times have changed for the better, depending on your view of course
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You’re too kind. Thank you
Idiots that keep checking their cell-phones are what REALLY ruined cinema for me. Especially, when it's the same person, in the same spot, opening their phone MULTIPLE times throughout the whole movie.
New generations have shorter and shorter attention spans. Must check phone. Must scroll reels. Must keep dopamine high.
I like to watch movies at home because I can pause the movie and think about what I'm seeing or think about a line from an actor. You can't do that at the theater. At home, you have time to really process the movie and understand it.
Interesting view. I think it would work well on movies that have a lot of complicated parts going on or that challenge your thinking.
underrated channel, very cool video
Thanks for the kind words
Maybe it's me, myself, personally, as a person, but they stopped making movies I want to see. For example I want to see Robot Dreams, it's not playing anywhere locally. So, I have to drive over a hour way to experience it in a theater. Also, the last 4 movies I've seen in theaters have all been foreign films.
Makes sense. If they don’t make anything we want to watch, so much so we’d leave the comfort of streaming, then why would anyone go to the cinema?
Altocelaraphobia ALONE keeps me out of theaters for the most part. You don't need a completely hollow six storey high lobby with all kinds of hanging pipes and vents. You don't need a THEATER roof higher than the fucking SCREEN!!
It’s a death trap just waiting
I haven't been to the movie. theater since July of 2019.
Has there even been any good movies since? When I want to see a movie nowadays I have to go back to the 90's or 00's to find something good.
No regrets I presume? Also, what was that movie you saw in July 2019 out of curiosity
I struggle to find any since
@@motioninart It was the second Spider-Man movie, Far From Home I think. And no, I don’t have any regrets. Honestly, my 5 year absence from the theater coincides with my disappointment with the MCU.
I realized that the only reason I went to the theater was to see these big blockbuster movies, and once I stopped caring for them, I stopped going to the theater all together.