Digital change to darken small theaters
Posted: September 9, 2012 at 2:53 a.m.
Thom Reeves, owner of the Isis Theatre in Crete, Neb., carries a heavy roll of 35mm film in the projection room. While the theater has changed very little since it opened 86 years ago, Reeves must come up with $85,000 to buy new projection equipment as the movie industry phases out the traditional film reels in favor of digital media.
The Isis Theatre hasn’t changed much since it opened 86 years ago in southeast Nebraska, a stone’s throw from the grain elevator and railroad tracks that cut through town.
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