RE: Member Photos
February 28, 2018 at 10:35 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2018 at 10:38 pm by A Theist.)
(February 28, 2018 at 8:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: When you have autism, you become obsessed with a lot of random subjects, some of them can get really esoteric. Case in point: two-strip Technicolor. When I was first really getting into cinema and its history, one subject that really wound up fascinating me was the strange hues that came from the early days of cinema, back when people first managed to film in colour (using multiple exposures of one image, one with a green filter and one with a red filter). I'll include a scene from King of Jazz (One of the few all-colour features of the era to survive intact, and soon to be released on a Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-Ray, joining a number you can probably count on your hands), and I think you'll see one of the stranger features of this early process:
Yes, they made a colour film of Rhapsody in Blue... on a system that couldn't properly do blue. They could do a decent approximation if they manipulated the prints just right, but a lot of the prints didn't. Strangely, the lower-quality prints near the end did blue better than the HD remastered version. But, honestly, the strange colours intrigued me (and still do!). It's just enough to look like a barely passable colour picture of reality (presumably due to the blue cones in our eyes being less numerous than the red and green), but it's so strange it can't help but draw me.
I recently discovered an app called "Recs" (by Boogie Software) that allows people to use their iPhone cameras to channel a lot of vintage looks (Two and Three-strip Technicolor, several types of black and white, multiple 8mm stocks, Polaroid, VHS, Pixelvision, and a couple 80s computer displays, and even a couple based around the stocks that recorded our trips to the moon.) It's free (though there's apparently a full version to buy for $3, but no extra perks seem to be advertised), but be warned it consumes a lot of battery.
So, in honour of my 4000th post, here are two selfies I took to commemorate this strange, obsolete, and intriguing colour process (using the Hollywood 1929 filter):
I can only assume in the horizontal one, I've just realised I'm in a Guy Maddin film.
You kinda remind me of Peter Ustinov. I always loved his acting.
The video was great, btw. Old movie fan?
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