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-===Cost and Workflow===
+==Exhibition==
+[[35mm]] was considered the standard gauge for exhibition in the motion picture film industry for over one hundred years up until the mid-2000s.
+Until late 70s, 150-300 35mm prints were created per title. They would screen downtown in large cities, moved to neighborhood theaters, then small towns. Most prints prints were struck from the original camera negative.
+The late 70s introduced [[Xenon short-arc lamp|xenon lamps]], [[Platter systems|platter projection]], and [[multiplexes]]. Films begin to open “wide” on 1000-3000 screens at a time. Most prints were made from internegatives, with high speed printing.
+From 2007-2010, film was at its greatest point of saturation, with more prints of more films on more screens than ever before.
+By 2012, digital projection had replaced film on the majority of US screens, and by 2014, only a handful of titles are released on film, usually with under 15 prints made.
+A small amount of theaters continue to screen film, mostly for repertory screenings, special events, and the occasional first-run film that gets a small film release in addition to a larger digital one. These venues tend to advertise if and when they are screening film as it is considered to be an audience draw.
+====Cost and Workflow====
 A [[35mm]] Print of a Feature Film can cost anywhere from $2000-20,000, the workflow to create restored internegatives can cost many times that.
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 Only a handful of labs left in the world printing and processing motion picture film. Only one lab in the US doing laser subtitles
-==Exhibition==
-[[35mm]] was considered the standard gauge for exhibition in the motion picture film industry for over one hundred years up until the mid-2000s.
-Until late 70s, 150-300 35mm prints were created per title. They would screen downtown in large cities, moved to neighborhood theaters, then small towns. Most prints prints were struck from the original camera negative.
-The late 70s introduced [[Xenon short-arc lamp|xenon lamps]], [[Platter systems|platter projection]], and [[multiplexes]]. Films begin to open “wide” on 1000-3000 screens at a time. Most prints were made from internegatives, with high speed printing.
-From 2007-2010, film was at its greatest point of saturation, with more prints of more films on more screens than ever before.
-By 2012, digital projection had replaced film on the majority of US screens, and by 2014, only a handful of titles are released on film, usually with under 15 prints made.
-A small amount of theaters continue to screen film, mostly for repertory screenings, special events, and the occasional first-run film that gets a small film release in addition to a larger digital one. These venues tend to advertise if and when they are screening film as it is considered to be an audience draw.
 ==See Also==