He later took a $35 a week job as a cartoonist for a Kansas City firm that made slides for projection on theater screens.
At the same time, thanks to a variety of factors — changing projection technology, theater managers seeking more profits, studios' efforts to pump up box office reports and perhaps even audience anxiety after last year's movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colo.
Combining puppetry and shadow projections, this theater piece shows what happens when a little girl boards the train with her own destinations in mind.
Similarly, a movie could be captured and edited digitally before being printed on traditional 35mm photochemical film for projection in theaters.
These technologies are widely used in the industry for media delivery over the internet and other media, and are also applied to broadcast, high definition DVDs, and digital projection in theaters.
Vartan's next endeavor is a massive project based on Dante's Inferno, which will combine ballet, theater, projection, and sculpture in a way never done before.
Clearly, Mr. Izu is engaged in a process of imaginative projection, a living theater of illusion, if you will.
Upgrading theater projection systems to play the faster speed is also costly; only a fraction of the screens in North America are expected to have compatible projectors by the time "The Hobbit" arrives in December 2012.
If this production comes across more strongly than expected, it is thanks to the staging of Reid Anderson and Jane Bourne, but also to the projection that Ballet Theater provides through the force of its technique.
But though I can't speak for the last row of the balcony, and though the Walter Kerr is not that big, Ms. Heche held her own in terms of vocal amplitude and character projection with the theater veterans beside her.
