Projecting Motion Pictures: Invention and Innovation The idea of adapting Edison's moving pictures to the magic lantern or stereopticon was so simple and straightforward that it undoubtedly occurred to hundreds, probably thousands, of people who peered...

A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying moving pictures by projecting them on a projection screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie...

Christie Digital Systems Inc. of Cypress is straddling two worlds of movies-film and digital. For 70 years, Christie has been making film projectors that Regal Entertainment Group and others use to show movies at their theaters. More recently, Christie has started making...

When the first $100 million worth of paying customers crammed into movie theaters to see the highly anticipated Star Wars film The Phantom Menace, few of them may have realized or even cared that only 5 percent of its 130 minutes are free of...