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The replacement of photochemical film by digital capture, digital effects and digital projection, gathering through the 1990s and effectively complete in commercial exhibition by the mid-2010s. It collapsed the cost of shooting, made visual effects continuous with photography, and ended the shipping of film prints that had defined distribution for a century.
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Introduced Year1999 saw the first public digital-projection screenings of a major feature, Star Wars: Episode I, in the United States; adoption then took roughly fifteen years. OriginDigital cinema projection was publicly demonstrated for a feature film for the first time on 18 June 1999, when Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema projectors showed Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace on two screens in Los Angeles and New York. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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In the United States, on June 18, 1999, Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema projector technology was publicly demonstrated on two screens in Los Angeles and New York for the release of Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
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