I am in love w the way pre 2000s films have that hazy feel to them. hd honestly kills the vibe
I think that’s one of the reasons why “period” media that’s marketed off the Aesthetic sometimes bothers me…….like they get the music, the clothing, the cars……and yet it always feels like something is missing
like,
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or even compare the early x files to the reboot
something is just lost with the crispness
someone in the tags said early spn vs new supernatural and tbh 100% yes !!
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I never realized how much I missed the grainy undersaturated filing …… “good lighting” and sharpness strike again
Seasons 1-3 were shot on 35mm film
4-15 were all shot on digital cameras, a change that the network insisted on
Yeah the exact thing that changed is that all the old stuff was recorded on film and all the new stuff was recorded on digital media.
i was going to say the film thing and the someone brought up supernatural and i was like “nah” and then @aphony-cree out here dropping that bomb…. in *2005,* to *2008?* there was a show shooting on film???? god you guys MOST shows went though this transition in the 90s how the fuck was SPN on FILM
In the 2000s dramatic shows had a good shot of convincing networks to let them use film. The network still had film cameras they’d bought and maybe hadn’t gotten enough use out of before the switch to digital. Most dramas can’t be shot entirely in the studio, they need to go on location, so it made sense to let them use the older cameras while the new expensive digital cameras stayed in the studio where they were safer
Supernatural wanted the 35mm film aesthetic and hated when they were forced to switch to digital
They just recently released a 4K version of Lord of the Rings and they’re so Crisp. None of those soft fantasy vibes
We don’t need to see every fucking covered pimple on the actors face. It’s actually takes away from their performance because I can’t focus on them but their face
sometimes ‘better’ is worse
That wasnt even just touch ups, that changed the entire coloring which changes the mood and the feel!! How do you fuck up so badly????
The blue version of LOTR will always be the true version.
This is why I hate, hate, hate, HATE the 2003 print of The Wizard of Oz so much. They just kinda slapped a sharpness filter on it and called it good.
Thing is, The Wizard of Oz was shot on film that is objectively garbage. It was in the early days of mass-market movies, it was one of the first films to be shot in color (it was literally one of the first 30 filmed that way), like we didn’t know shit yet about how to make film. It was heavy, brittle, extremely flammable, and you could damage it by looking at it cross-eyed. But the filming crew knew this. And so they used that to their advantage. Here’s an example. I pulled both these screenshots off YouTube, because I refuse to have the abomination that is the 2003 print or 4K rerelease in my house and I’m still waiting for a restored version rather than a remastered version, but, uh. Autistic. Special interest. I gotcha covered.
So I’m 90% sure the screenshot below is from the 1989 50th anniversary. What I want you to look at specifically is that field behind Dorothy, and where her feet are.
You can see that the backdrop is painted if you look at it for a bit, but it’s not super-obvious where the line is unless you stare at it for awhile. This shot in motion is rather quick and also the munchkins are providing a lot of movement, so your eyes are going to skate right over it. And the perspective tricks with the painting are good enough that, again, in motion, you don’t really register that it’s a painting.
This bullshit is the 2003 print.
It’s extremely obvious now that whole backdrop is painted. And you can see exactly where the backdrop meets the floor. You can also start to see details that shouldn’t be at all obvious, like how they switched paint colors for the Yellow Brick Road. (Look just above Dorothy’s hand.) And don’t even get me started on the guard in the tower and how the brightness filter makes that red coat super-distracting from what we’re supposed to be looking at, which is Dorothy waving goodbye.
(And if you think this is bad? You should see the 4K release. Except don’t do that. I saw it and wanted to cry. What the fuck did they do to Oz.)
This movie shouldn’t be in HD or 4K. It wasn’t meant to be in HD or 4K. In fact it was specifically designed with the limitations of its own time period in mind, and trying to apply modern film technique to it damages the original creative intent. Literally the only way to remove the bumps and warts from this movie isn’t to slap it in 4K and say it’s “better,” it’s to give it the Labyrinth 30th Anniversary treatment: go back in with an airbrush and lovingly, carefully go frame-by-frame to edit those areas where higher screen resolutions make things like the flying monkeys’ suspension wires more obvious. They used the low film quality to their advantage to mask that shit! You can’t just sharpen it all up and call it “better!” You have to look at the original creative intent and sometimes that means just leaving shit alone!
Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen
“These artifacts were excavated by archaeologists from a burial site in the 1970’s. The remains were returned for reinterment”
Okay cool, cool cool. So you just, like. Dug up the grave of a respected family member, stripped them naked, mailed their body back to their family and kept everything they were lovingly put to rest in. Like a graverobbing bastard
Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.
Museum collectors did the equivalent of kidnapping a family member when they were away fishing.
As white people: we need to be doing something about this that goes beyond wringing our hands and saying “oh dear.” I’d bet a nickel if we started systematically photographing these stolen collections, and made the photos readily organized and available online, we’d see A LOT of people who could identify these objects pop up. I think I’m going to find out if there are any such collections near me, and do exactly that.
There’s very little reason to go digging up graves to start with. (Like….I guess we can make an argument for things like Neolithic graves, but that’s a really nuanced topic for a different post.) But removing artifacts and digging up graves from STILL LIVING CULTURES? Who would probably provide you with replicas and actual cultural context if you just, I dunno, ASKED? That’s a very special kind of reprehensible.
Can I just say, forehead kisses are absolutely amazing. They say so much without saying a word. It’s such an intimate and genuine love kinda kiss. And it just makes me feel so loved and safe and cared for.
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