AvengersScreening Delayed Because Some Dunce DELETED THE FREAKING MOVIE

And there get along a day , a day unlike any other , when Earth ’s mighty heroes and heroine found themselves united against a common menace . On that Clarence Day , the Avengers were … deleted ? Yes . The transcript of the film being used for a screening last hebdomad was circumstantially wiped from the waiter , and delay a way full of angry nerds ( and film critics ) from seeing the Avengers assembled . But how does something like that even happen ?

As it turns out , it ’s surprisingly easyto erase a digital pic :

Slate asked Steve Kraus , whom Roger Ebert has called one of “ the good projectionists in the nation . ” Kraus differentiate us that it ’s as wanton as delete any authoritative file from your data processor . “ It ’s click to edit from the server and an ‘ Are you sure ? ’ confirmation , ” he explained over email .

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Thankfully , the exit was finally resolved . But it set offa debateover the digital cinema packages that are replacing old fashioned film reel . Without the move to digital , the reasoning goes , you would n’t be able to edit the moving-picture show you are hypothesize to be showing . That ’s a fortune of headache for a outgrowth that ’s supposed to be as “ easy as creating a playlist and pressing play , ” and that costs up to $ 150,000 per screen to install .

And all that is true . But traditional pic has its drawback , too ; it ’s easy enough to say , drop the Scottish reel and ruin the film , play the wrong reel , light up the spool on flack with a flamethrower , or break the moving-picture show in any numeral of other derisory ways that are correspondent to blue-pencil it . Idiocy works just as well in analog as it does in digital .

Just keep reminding yourself of that the next time some slackness - confab stripling wipes your local theater ’s only copy of Prometheus this summertime . [ ticket ]

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