Manual Work Involved

Peter McMorris, one of the original founders of Cinestudio, splices a 35 mm movie by hand using tape in preparation for a recent showing of "<a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ENMV000000290" title="The Reader (movie)" href="/topic/entertainment/movies/the-reader-%28movie%29-ENMV000000290.topic">The Reader</a>." Two projectors are used to show the eight-reel movie, with the projectionist manually switching between machines when a reel runs out.

( STEPHEN DUNN, Hartford Courant / April 24, 2009 )

Peter McMorris, one of the original founders of Cinestudio, splices a 35 mm movie by hand using tape in preparation for a recent showing of "The Reader." Two projectors are used to show the eight-reel movie, with the projectionist manually switching between machines when a reel runs out.

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