Screenland Armour owner Adam Roberts said he grew up watching movies on film until the late 2000s to early 2010s, when digital made its mandatory way into theaters.
When he took over Screenland in 2012, film was dying, and the North Kansas City theater was forced to upgrade to digital or be shut out of new releases.
His latest investment into the independent movie theater returns to its 1920s origins.
Roberts posted on Screenland’s social media accounts in August that he was planning to bring a dual projector that could show 35mm film and 70mm film reels inside the largest of its four theaters…