'STAR WARS' CREATOR GEORGE LUGAS'S REVISIONIST APPROACH TO CINEMA HISTORY CREATED A REVOLUTION BYSIGNALLING A PROFOUND CHANGE IN THE CINEMA PROJECTION BUSINESS, ITS OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT WILLAM KNIGHT TAKES A LOOK AT MOVING PICTURES. For over one hundred years the technology of 'throwing' a moving picture onto a wall remained largely unchanged, enhanced only by such developments as sound and colour. But in May 2002, 'Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones', entered history as the very first all-digital live-action feature film. Not a single roll of film was exposed during production, and in digitally-equipped cinemas only a USB external hard-disk was needed to show the movie.
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