stackyFACTSIf you thought carrying groceries was hard, try loading a massive cinematic ego. A single 70mm IMAX movie reel can weigh over six hundred pounds and span miles of celluloid, literally requiring industrial machinery and structural support just to get the movie into the projection booth.
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Before the Steadicam, moving a camera required laying down massive literal train tracks or accepting highly nauseating, shaky footage. Inventor Garrett Brown…
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Because animating realistic human movement from scratch is agonizing, studios just traced over actual actors. By filming live-action reference footage and…
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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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Those massive, furry gray sausages hovering over movie sets are actually highly sensitive audio receivers in winter coats. Because wind utterly destroys…
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Before crowded movie theaters, people enjoyed cinema by hunching over a wooden box like a gargoyle. These early viewers used a continuous loop of film passed…
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In order to fake someone getting shot on screen, actors casually wear miniature bombs under their shirts. A squib is a tiny, remotely detonated explosive…
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