The popcorn hadn't yet begun popping, and oceans of empty seats awaited ticket buyers on a recent morning at The Bridge, a multiplex a few miles north of the Los Angeles International Airport But in a warren of hallways and projection booths, technicians were nudging another movie theater into the Digital Age. In a booth where a 35-millimeter projector would later begin unspooling Shrek the Third on celluloid, a group of electricians prepared wiring for the installation of two new digital projection systems from Technicolor Inc. The plan was to have the new systems up and running in eight of The Bridge's 17 projection booths as the summer movie season got under way.
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