Strand stands on brink of closing
Friday, January 13th, 2012Movie theater needs to project digitally
GRAFTON—Just as silent movies evolved into sound and black and white to color, the days of film in the motion picture industry are about to end and go digital.
According to Tom Henriksen, owner of the Strand Twin Movie Theater in Grafton, there has been talk in the motion picture industry of it happening for some time.
“We knew it was coming. We, meaning people who own and operate small independent movie theaters, didn’t know when. They have been talking about it for the last five years,” he said. “We knew the number of films would be limited but we never thought that there would be no film.”
Henriksen said the motion picture industry would make one film to have on hand.
“The rest of the movies would be distributed digitally,” he said. (more…)