Reports
Reports on cinema and projection on the net and also written for this site:
At a cinema near you: - strategies for sustainable local cinema development
Automating Cinemas Using XML - Film Markup Language (FML) is a DTD and a process model for automating cinemas. It could very well encompass more than just the screening itself. For example, the bookings and ticket sales handled at the box office are ideal for XML; Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) comes to mind as a nice solution.
Cinema Articles - From www.magportal.com and Cinema Treasures
Cutting-Room Floor Roper Released After Snoozing During Film; [Home Edition] - "We guarantee that all our processed film is not being burnt or put into the ground in a landfill in any shape, manner or form. It will be recycled," says Sam Borodinsky, chief executive of Filmtreat West and Filmtreat East, a bicoastal corporation whose services include certified destruction of obsolete film prints. Not all prints are destroyed. A few to a few hundred are invariably ...
Digital Future for Film Industry - Description to Follow
Distribution: Specialised film distribution and exhibition - In early 2003 the UK Film Council ran an industry-wide consultation regarding our specialised film distribution and exhibition strategy
Dtec Cinema - This a short article about the my idea of the cinema I would like to own and run, if I ever had the opportunity. Also available as a PDF
Film Societies Survey - a report - The UK Film Council commissioned a piece of research in an attempt to understand more about the sector, its needs, problems and aspirations, so that it could ensure that any funds devoted by the UK Film Council to the British Federation of Film Societies in support of its members would be maximised
Films - A report on the supply of films for the exhibition in cinemas in the UK
GB Cinemas Exhibitors - (News Release)
Manchester City Cinema Article - Description to Follow
Market Report on the Cinema Industry - Description to Follow
Media Salles Yearbook - This also a useful site for other cinema related information.
Reports - A list of links to reports available on the internet about the cinema and movie industry
Screen Digest - global intelligence on screen media.
Special Report Entertainment and Technology - entitled 'Technology hasn't changed projectionist's jobs at all that much. But economics has' by John Lippman.
The Impact of Local Cinema - Research Project - In 2003, the British Film Institute and the UK Film Council commissioned a study to measure and assess the impact of local cinemas on the social, cultural and economic life of their communities. Two Regional Screen Agencies; EM Media and Film London, funded case study elements of the project.
The supply of cinema advertising services: - A report on the supply in the United Kingdom of cinema advertising services
This article is about the archiving of film in a digital world - Description to Follow
Towards the single European market in film - Description to Follow
UK Film Council Statistical Yearbook 2004/05 - for data on UK film and film in the UK in 2004. To download a PDF of the Yearbook, please click on the following link PDF Stats Yearbook 2004/05
WAVE - Walk-thru Virtual Environment - This is an intersting scientifc report which court my eye a while ago and looks at the concept of creating a screen which can we walked through, or even which can appear and disappear as necessary. In simple form it uses thousands of little droplets of water to screen a fog, which is then able to have an image projected onto it.
