Spielberg Wonít Shoot Films Digitally

Steven Spielberg has vowed to continue to shoot movies ""the old fashioned way,"" on celluloid rather than on hard disks. Speaking on Wednesday night, August 11, 1999, at the Smithsonian Institutionís Baird Auditorium in Washington, D.C., where he received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, Spielberg distanced himself from his longtime friend and sometime colleague George Lucas, who has announced plans to shoot his next Star Wars movie entirely on digital media. Spielberg told the Smithsonian audience: ""Iím going to make all my films on film until they close the last lab down."" The audience reportedly cheered.