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I want to produce an animation which has to be seen on a large screen
(4000 seat auditorium). High resolution isn't important, but it does have to
be seen with a certain amount of ambient light (though there isn't a lot
happening on stage at the time, which is why the director wants this animation
in the background). A couple of animations (which needn't be synched) either
side of the stage is also a possibility.

This is for something at the 1995 World Science Fiction Convention, in Glasgow,is case anyone is interested.

As I see it, my options are

i) Render to video, use a video projector. The conference center's video
projector is in a different room, and unlikely to be movable. We have doubts
a projector which will be bright enough is available (or rentable at affordablecost).

ii) Render to 35mm slides (just taking screen shots with camera and monitor
on a rigid framework, unless someone tells me about a cheap film recorder),
fading successive frames into each other over a few seconds. Possible, but
the director would prefer actual animation.

iii) Get a 200 exposure magazine for my 35mm still camera, and splice the
results into a film (probably to be run at less than normal speed, assuming
suitable projector).

iv) Buy an 8mm cine camera with single frame advance. Pay someone to transfer
it to 35mm film (probably - would a smaller format be bright enough?).

v) Buy a 35mm cine camera. Too expensive.

vi) Render to video, and pay someone to transfer it to film. This seems the
most plausible. (I do have a genlock already).

Any advice?
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