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Originally Posted by earlyfilm
I humbly agree  with you uncle! There are still a few theaters still running carbon arc, today. At least he got out of the business prior to the switch to polyester prints, which really caused many a projectionist to lose his cool.
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My uncle was forced out of the biz when the big theatre chains (all of 2 at the time) decided they didn't like the projectionist unions and locked everyone out. Any decent single screen house was shuttered soon after. Heck, where I live now, we don't even have a decent large screen venue capable of showing 70mm.
All the mega-omni-uberplexes that run up here today are xenon and are all digital. Gone are the craftpeople that kept the stuff running and cared what the image on the screen looked like, replaced by a kid that seldom, if ever even cleans the optics or even the projection booth windows. I can't watch films in the theatre, the simple projection issues prevent me from enjoying the show.