San Francisco Film Festival honors cinema innovator Ray Dolby
The San Francisco Film Society honored Ray Dolby with the George Gund III Award at the 56th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest-running film festival...
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Happy anniversary, Dolby Atmos
On April 24, 2012, Dolby Laboratories announced Dolby® Atmos™, a new cinema sound format that unleashes the potential of sound in storytelling by giving filmmakers the ability to place and move sound anywhere in the movie theater—not just where there happen to be speakers. Dolby Atmos also draws moviegoers into the onscreen action like never
If drones could talk
Winds, water, and drones: Those are the primary sounds of an obliterated planet Earth in Oblivion, and Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last drone repairmen there to hear them. Writer and director Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) conceived the story as a science fiction film that would feel “as organic and real as
Oz the Great and Powerful: See and hear how cinema storytelling has changed
When The Wizard of Oz debuted in 1939, audiences were blown away by the vision of Dorothy emerging from her weathered Kansas farmhouse in black and white,...