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Wednesday January 9, 2002
Now that everything is digital, why do you still
talk about editing and completing specific reels of the movie?
This report comes from the Official Star Wars Site!
Answered by: Ben Burtt
It is hard to let go of some traditions.
However, for organization reasons, we still break the movie into segments, or reels, because most storage systems, even digital ones, would be sorely taxed by having to hold all the picture and sound data for a two hour movie at one time and still run quickly and smoothly.
In addition, the film will still be printed in the lab in reels and shipped to the theater in reels. Film rolls, or reels, cannot be made spliceless in sizes much greater than 20 minutes in running time. The theater receives the individual reels and the projectionist still splices them together into one big platter.