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On 24 February 2009, the Centre for Film Studies hosted a talk on digital cinema by Mr J. Ron Inglis, the newly-appointed, first Director of the new development agency Regional Screen Scotland. Ron is one of the UK's most experienced and respected authorities on cinema exhibition in both their development and operation, and on wider strategic development. A graduate of University of St Andrews, Ron has worked in the field of cinema and media for over 30 years. He is an independent consultant and researcher, and has worked for local authorities throughout the UK, Scottish Screen, the British Film Institute, the UK Film Council, the Arts Councils of Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales. He has senior management and board level experience in private sector technology companies as well as in the arts and cinema sectors. His work covers options appraisals, feasibility studies, capital project developments, digital cinema implementation, strategic development, marketing and audience development, and artform-specific audits. He is the author of the recent Scottish Screen publication: Tentpoles and Pixels: Developing a Local Digital Cinema.
This stimulating talk was entitled ‘Will Pixels Save the Soul of Cinema as We Once Knew it?'. Ron introduced us to the latest development of digital cinema in the UK (and Europe in passing). According to Ron, digital cinema will soon be replacing the older, more conventional way of film distribution, focusing primarily on small, specialised audience. It gives flexibility to exhibitors in changing their screening programmes. Yet, since this trend of digital cinema is still very new, many exhibitors are at the stage of trial and error in using digital cinema to do their screenings.
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