stackyFACTSWhy use one camera when you can use a grotesquely massive one that runs three film reels simultaneously? Early Technicolor used a glass prism to split incoming light into red, green, and blue, recording each wavelength on a dedicated black-and-white strip to later dye and glue together.
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Surround sound used to mean simply deciding which speaker got the helicopter noise. Now, object-based spatial audio treats sound effects as 3D digital items…
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Before digital surround formats, the audio for a theater movie was literally printed as a picture right next to the frames. A physical, squiggly line ran down…
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To map dull colors to dramatic tones, systems use a massive mathematical translation sheet to forcibly replace every pixel's original value.
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Before Hollywood decided green was the universally accepted color for 'make this disappear,' they used brilliant blue. The original chemical film development…
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Cheaper glass fails to focus all wavelengths of light at the exact same point, causing highly annoying purple and green halos to ruin high-contrast edges.
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