Quentin Tarantino, JJ Abrams help save old-fashioned film stock

By Michael Idato
Updated July 31 2014 - 12:18pm, first published 11:09am
Fighting for film ... Quentin Tarantino believes that the "digital format represents the death of cinema".
Fighting for film ... Quentin Tarantino believes that the "digital format represents the death of cinema".

Film - the transparent plastic strip made coated in light-sensitive emulsion which has been the mainstay of the motion picture industry for a century - will live to fight another day.