What will film mean in 2056?

I will preface by saying that I will always think of film
as the superior image recording media I have seen thus far.
No other media has yet to arrive which can best it numerically
in test. Though some tests might try to fudge numbers with
interpolated digital data, film grain is still more dense and flexible
when the final results are shown.

Yes, eventually people will accept the lower media as standard,
but as generations succeed, the handling of film for editing and
putting a roll of film in a still camera will seem as ancient as
striking two stones for fire.

What will film then mean to those ahead? How would the
description of shining light through a print as it unreeled not
seem like a boring history lesson?

50 years hence, this might happen. It can be stopped by letting
film stay and not try to improve upon perfection. If extreme sharp-
ness is the desired goal of those who wish to see film's demise, then
attention should instead turn to developing holograms as a practical
moving exhibition.

As I am just one person in the path of the elephant stampede of
technical progress, I would like to conclude that movie film should
always have a place alongside oil painting, sculpting, and basket
weaving as a tool of artistic expression.


Mark
Film Fan