THE FUTURE OF CINEMA with Douglas Trumbull Part 1 - AIN'T IT COOL With Harry Knowles

Harry Knowles sits down with film legend Douglas Trumbull who created visual effects for films like "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Blade Runner." Together they cover the evolution of film and the state of film projection today.

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[elevul]

Can't wait for movies to move up to 120fps.

[Blurns]

I don't suppose anybody would be interested in reviving Sensurround? No? Oh, well.

[sclogse1]

This was done before the recent crop of very bright 3D films...the Scorsese film about Melies looked perfect.

[sclogse1]

I don't think today's digital projections are lousy. You do get sharpness from corner to corner, which we never got all the way into the early 2000's. Curved screens helped that problem out...especially in the giant projections of the first Tron film we had in the bay area...great stuff. Now, people who wind up in shopping malls the day after thanksgiving..those theatres have tiny screens... are terrible.

But I still kinda dig going to a chinese theatre in the avenues to see stuff...

[sclogse1]

Sometimes I think the strobing that occurs in the moon bus and the aries 1B vehicle (the round ball thing that lands on the moon) is what keeps driving Doug to clean up film frames. I bet he'd love to redo those shots.

[JerrysFunhouse]

That was great. Trumbull is probably the greatest special effects artist of all time.

[Rastko Bojkovic]

In fact, i changed my mind recently and i agree that you are right.

[nemesisnick66]

i dont who is he?

[SgtZima]

I take it you don't know who Harry Knowles is?

[iPadCary]

Look at this fucking -- .... Jesus malloik, I don't even know WHAT the fuck that-that THING is. This is who ALL OF SHOW BUSINESS is made for & geared to now is. And he gets a sitdown with the greatest cinematic genius in movie history?!? I am DUMBSTRUCK. No other outlet could set up an interview? Nothing on "Charlie Rose", for example? A documentary on "The Future Of Movies", maybe? What Warner Brothers or ViaCom should do is hire Doug Trumball & just let him do whatever the fuck he wan