Word: celluloid
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...execution by a “Clerks”-level budget. As a cost-cutting measure, “War” is shot on high-definition video, and like many films of this medium it seems perennially underexposed. Also, it lacks the rapturous quality of a celluloid production—which is unfortunate because many of the film’s otherwise beautiful shots lose a bit of their visual poetry due to video’s representational limitations. However, what “War” lacks in visual refinement it more than compensates for in thematic resonance...
...series, which began two weeks ago with “The Celluloid Closet” (1996, dirs. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) and “Midnight Cowboy” (1969, dir. John Schlesinger), is largely the brainchild of History and Literature tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ‘93, who is the BGLTS Advisor in Quincy House and curator of the 2005 LBGT Film Series...
George Lucas is again breaking ground. The billionaire director, famous for blockbusters like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, has built a new empire. It's the "ultimate digital studio," he says, an antidote to celluloid's costly chemical processing and vaunted studio system. The Letterman Digital Arts Center is a $350 million facility inside San Francisco's Presidio, a national park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The idea is to advance production of digital films, games, special effects and animation--something Lucas has done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films...
...Honorable Circuit Court is now open, pursuant to adjournment. Set down, keep quiet." Bailiff Kelso Rice drew his lean neck back into its high celluloid casing, settled his policeman's cap at a rakish angle, stowed a generous "chaw" of tobacco into the recesses of his oral cavity, dragged the spittoon into range with a clatter...
...cares about the visual integrity of Hollywood movies when there is a buck to be made? Not the studios or the TV networks. For them the golden oldies are either profitable inventory or chopped celluloid. And now the archives are being raided by technicians with a new idea: "colorizing" the black-and-white films of Hollywood's Golden Age through computer wizardry. The film is copied onto video and broken down into gradations of gray. An "art director" sits at a console and chooses the colors for each face, dress and prop, which the computerized "paintbrush" adds frame by frame...