The soothing clickety-clack of a film projector unspooling Hollywood’s latest offering is becoming a thing of the past. In Sedalia, it’s already in the history books.
Galaxy 10, on West Highway 50, moved fully into the digital realm earlier this year. June 14 marked the last day that owner/manager Seth Wagenknecht and his staff had to lug around giant film canisters, splice together reels of film and spool them through projectors.
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