Terry Nelson, Author at Celluloid Junkie

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A sound speaker in a cinema emits a visible sound wave with a cinema audience in the background.

CJ Tech: Getting the Sound Right in Cinemas

Designing a cinema involves multiple disciplines that often compete with one another. At the heart of any list of technical requirements for a cinema auditorium are really two essential elements: sound and picture. Assuming both sound and picture are of equal importance, the latest visual technolo…

CineEurope 2024: A Trade Show Overview

An important part of every CineEurope conference, held at the CCIB in Barcelona every June, is the trade show, where the latest in cinema service provider offerings – from concession stand options through to the nitty-gritty technical side of cinema exhibition – are displayed in all thei…

CineEurope 2024: ICTA Sessions

The annual gathering of the European cinema community – CineEurope – took place once again at the CCIB in Barcelona between the 17-20 June. On the opening morning of the conference (Monday 17th) a session focussing on ‘New Cinema Concepts’ kickstarted a discussion around cinemas de…

ISE and ProLight & Sound 2024

ISE and ProLight & Sound 2024 Roundup

Although not technically cinema exhibition trade shows in the purest sense, entertainment technology events Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) and ProLight & Sound (PL&S) both still have a clear relevance to the exhibition industry, particularly when you consider ever-morphing cinema techn…

2023 ProLight and Sound

ProLight + Sound 2023 Brings Some Theatre Fairy Dust to Cinemas

To use a phrase that is fairly common today, this article/report is to encourage you to ‘think outside the box’ in terms of how your venue is presented and what could be done to bring the audience to your cinema before they even get into the auditorium. Though not a cinema show per se, ProLightRead…

Locarno Film Festival

The Sound of the Locarno Film Festival

Affectionately known by the team as the “smaller of the big festivals,” the Locarno Film Festival certainly ranks among the top five. Yet, the Locarno Film Festival can in no way be considered a small event; spread across 14 different venues throughout the Swiss town from which the festival draws it…

CineEurope 2022 - Trade Show Floor

CineEurope 2022: Wired for Sound

For those who attended this year, it’s safe to say that CineEurope 2022 was a great success. Attendance numbers were at least double that of the 2021 convention (itself a success in terms of ambience and getting the cinema community back together again) and there was a definite feeling that “cinema…