The end of 35mm projection at The Kavanagh Cinema, Herne Bay

On Sunday, 3rd November 2013, the Kavanagh Cinema, Herne Bay played it's last 35mm projected movie showings, before making way for state of the art digital projectors.

[@mikekeech9718]

I sure miss 35mm film. I worked at 3 different theatres. Digital media is not reliable. When it came to film a projectionist had control of everything. I miss it very much. Thanks for posting this video. Currently working concessions at the Flame Theatre, Wells, MN

[@ajcastano14]

happy I had a chance to work with this in 2011 I got my first job at 17 became a projectionist a year later learned everything to it loved it and in 2013 around November it was a Sunday I threaded and started the last 35 print in my favourite auditorium my cinema is second run so I can easily say I started and broke down one of the last amazing wonders of the world. =,(

[@janetho2224]

But rejoice at the idea that with electronic photon sensors, you can potentially miniaturise the light capture so much that film will look like an old blurry thing in comparison. The chemical process reached its limit, the electronic one just started. We will reach the window effect with 120 Hz 8K digital, something you can only dream of with 30 Hz 6K analog like 35mm film.

[@vacanceaphrodite]

It moves me, many thanks for these souvenirs ....

[@hernebaybob]

Great song choice - one of my all time favourite songs !

[@shane1489]

My first job in 1997 at 17 was usher at AMC. I somehow managed to get into projection within a few months. Running a booth, building/ breaking down films. It was truly one of the best times of my life.

[@africkinamerican]

I remember peeking into the projection booth when I worked as a theater usher in college. It was a lot like this one. My mouth about dropped open at how complex the setup was.

[@soukiallen1]

this video brings back alot of memory. i used to be a movie equiptment tech...thank you film (35?70mm) for putting food on the table and to provide for my family i sure miss you alot.

[@scottturner2434]

Thanks Ray, I enjoyed making it. Sad to still have this cinema closed due to the pandemic. I can't wait for it to open again.

[@scottturner2434]

Oops, replied as me 😁

[@zackaryhaddon5445]

Thanks for posting this, it takes me back...!

[@morningblue84]

We had 35mm here in Philadelphia up until at least late 2012 with Woodhaven. The last regular film I saw in 35mm was Cloud Atlas. (Neshaminy, the biggest theater near my home, had converted completely to digital in February 2012. The last 35mm movie we had was Safe House.) It was really nice when The Hateful Eight came out and Neshaminy played it on 70mm. It was a lot of fun to see film on, well, film again.

[@dinomate01]

Wonderful trip down memory lane ...... One Era finishes ....another begins

[@baypromoteam]

+dinomate01 Thanks, we enjoyed making the video :)

[@dinomate01]

Yeah and I really enjoyed seeing it :)

[@Fergo101]

Nice video - glad someone cared enough to make it.

[@operateurtje]

Nice to see you at work with the Philips non-rewind (FP20), i stopped with analog projection in 2014 (Utrecht, the Netherlands))

[@ikonix360]

What bothers me is this. No matter how high a resolution digital is, it is still digital. It may be possible to get the resolution high enough to where no human eye can detect it is digital though. That said I always felt film was more of an exact representation versus digital that has to pass through electronics in order to be recorded and played back. All film required are cameras to record and projectors to play back. The image didn't have to go through anything other than optics to make it on the film and didn't go through anything but optics to be shown on a screen.

[@TanteCantikMancingLiarBali]

Nothing compare seleloid 35 mm. Its legend in cinema. Digital is cinema is??? Best regard KIKING entertainment

[@TomPaine56]

very good & realistic movie ... something to enjoy ... great big thank you!

[@baypromoteam]

Thanks Robert, a favourite of one of the team too!

[@kakurerud7516]

I stopped giving a crap about going out for movies once theaters i would normally go to switched to digital. Mostly because I know how resolution of things works. Its the 15$ / a seat / view is why the studios still insist.

[@abhilekhR1]

DCB is good for old files and films to protect but old film projection is good please come back the old projection I request

[@ViscountVile]

Maybe the text should have said "before making way for far less reliable digital projectors, that go wrong, cost much more and have a far shorter life!" You did well to keep the 35mm going for as long as you did, but it's a shame you couldn't retain one to broaden your options. Cinemas such as the Prince Charles are now promoting certain screenings as being "in glorious 35mm" and thereby attracting real film nuts like me!

[@swamis1330]

@@noahfogarty please Do More research. You will find the truth. Digital cannot be compared to reel

[@reyjulio]

digital is not cinema,is a big tv.real cinema is 35mm y imax 70mm

[@arricammarques1955]

Dumbed down the quality! Digital images are cropped.

[@georgenussbaum4486]

You hadn't used film in your home for many y.ears. It's been DVDs and streaming. So the changeover to digital projection was inevitable! George from Casselberry, Fl.

[@samspencer582]

Movies is not real movies anymore without these real projectors. Digitally made movies looks so artificial. I miss the old projectors. I´m happy that I have one old 35 mm projector from 1949 and two movies in 35 mm.

[@micjak9921]

It's amazing

[@MichaelBeeny]

I miss film, but on the good side, no more scratched prints, no bad joints and jumps from missing frames. Never out of rack, always in focus. No faulty sound tracks jumping in and out of Dolby digital. Wondering if DTS will start? Is the projectionist paying attention. Is the trainee on today or is he selling popcorn? Ahh the good old days!!

[@newcamnoddy]

Yes exactly..especially when the cake stands arrived in the 80's..our local Cannon ex ABC projectionists became VERY lazy. Remember watching Flash Gordon with a scope white frame line showing all the way through the film despite complaining to the Management. Such a shame as previous projectionists had been fine.I always wanted a job there to project properly..ie check focus always frame lines on reel changes sound etc and temperature..but I had a very good job in retail .So each subsequent visit was variable...shame on them!

[@MichaelBeeny]

@@newcamnoddy Any cinema taken over by Cannon was a death sentence. Poor management, poor everything.

[@robfriedrich2822]

Analog, the picture will be shown 48 times at once, twice the same. With a dark phase. Digital projection shows it continously or a pixel at once.

[@basho26]

The end of an era, Pete and Basho, Oxford street London at the Classic cinema complex playing with Cinemechanica Victoria 5's and the old 20,000 foot spool towers in 1979, now that was top of the tree. Now there is no one! Who is going to check the toilets now to make sure everyone has left the cinema?

[@joserodriguez-br6oq]

Nada mejor que el 35mm

[@paulosiqueira8918]

O CINEMA PERDENDO A " MAGIA " .

[@RODALCO2007]

Nice video.

[@fabrizio483]

And here I am, wanting to shoot 35mm or 16mm, but there's no more stock being made :(

[@plushblueep]

What movie was playing?

[@arricammarques1955]

Digital needs technicians the work flow. Prone to glitches, reboots, etc. Lower horizontal resolution than 35mm-70mm film prints.

[@studio4598]

Good ❤️

[@kevinbeckenham3872]

Interesting documentary, sad day film being replace digital projectors. Do these modern computer projectors crash like your home P.C's do ?

[@rintu1232]

No digital picture compared with projector film picture...a glamour pic they produced with soft picture...

[@Musicradio77Network]

The Pearl & Dean bumper sounds more 60's upbeat, but I missed the days when movie theaters had 35mm projectors, thanks to digital projectors, but they still showing in Regal Cinemas that it used Sony Digital Cinema 4K rather than the traditional 35mm film. I love seeing films shown in theaters, blame the digital format. 35mm FTW. If digital movies didn't do well in theaters, bring back the 35mm films, but I hope 35mm films will still be around forever, thanks to Kodak for bringing back Super 8 film to the masses since it had not been shown in public since 1982. Sony is phasing out Betamax, who cares. What's next, bring back 16mm film?

[@LonelyDiggers]

Ugh.. its modern age now duh.

[@alexandruandrei4647]

📽️🎬

[@HoaNguyen-iq5rg]

🙏

[@studio4598]

Good

[@raulgustavo62]

¡Qué pena!

[@carlosplacido3359]

when the film is finished take the film out with your arm and hands and put it on another plate

[@HoaNguyen-iq5rg]

📽

[@MANTLEBERG]

Film on the floor...oooo a sacking offence at the ABC..LOL

[@showreel2]

at the odeon we split the film while it was running onto a second spool. mate you should have seen that you had to be fast. film never touches the floor lol i bet no one was 100 percent on that

[@MichaelBeeny]

Shagging the usherettes was also a sackable offense but never stopped anyone!

[@linus7529]

Cotton swabs, tooth brushes, WD40, simple green & water, cotton gloves at the print building station, don't put the rated R trailers on the spongebob movie. Simpler times.

[@captaincinema5066]

Guess u guys will have to get a new logo intro and figure out how to represent your presentation WITHOUT using sprocket holes and film strips. Guess it will have to be a bunch of hard drives with 1s and 0s jumping around the screen. What oh what will the graphics people do when they need to make promotional materials for the theatre industry and they can no longer use images of sprocketed film?

[@TheMediaHoarder]

This is film done WRONG- he was using SOLID splicing tape, looks like he kept more than one reference frame on the leaders and didn't even bother to splice them back on properly when breaking down, AND put shoe polish around all the splices! Bad and lazy film presentation is why digital took over!

[@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer]

+Pinkie Pie Enterprises Not the first to be shot using digital cameras but first to be presented on digital medium though.

[@truefilm1556]

+eyeh8nbc Well IMHO saving money and cutting corners everywhere is why digital took over. I have seen lots of incompetent projectionists during the last years of film. The platter mechanism is a bad idea anyway: the film is way too exposed. It has been invented to get rid of the twin projector (with 2000ft reels each) set up. Old pros who really cared knew exactly the 'speed up' time for each model and set up the exact reference frame. Good old four frame "cigarette burns" upper right hand corner....

[@showreel2]

no it wasnt why digital took over i make digital films and its the cost of the prints you lunatic. like you never done anything wrong. keyboard ninja

[@showreel2]

and why shoe polish you used white marker tape you lunatic. show polish would go all down the film. FAIL

[@showreel2]

the reason he didnt splice the headers and leaders when breaking down was to save the next CAKE STAND MAKE UP from breaking it again REASONS

[@HoaNguyen-iq5rg]

😠😱