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[P3D Sorry, all attributions messed up, my fault... pno <>]

Subject: Re: SFX in 3D movies
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>In "Star Wars", they had two different land speeder mock-ups...
>so when they wanted to show Luke driving in a straight line, they
>used the other one, which had wheels.  To make it appear to be
> hovering (and to remove the shadows cast by the wheels)... they >rotoscoped those frames and and-retouched the underside of the 
>vehicle.
>...

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>you are greatly exaggerating the use and need for matte shots in movies. >They were very common in the old days when virtually everything was
> shot on a sound stage or a back lot; today with most films being shot
>largely on location (the exteriors, at least) they are less common.

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Decades ago, when the sequel to "The Wages of Fear" was tentatively
going to be shot in Peru, the film designer ( --Does John Box ring
a bell?) came to the Co. I freelanced for and looked at the real jungle oil
exploration documentary film footage we'd shot; he wanted virgin rain 
forest, but I remember clearly an "oh, if there's a farm ot two -in truth
he spoke of one- we could always matte it out in the studio."

(I believe the film ended up being shot in the Dominican Republic, our
then Govt. didn't like the way the local country was to be shown, i.e.
poverty, corruption, etc.)

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>Of course, nobody'll go to movies then.  We'll just wear a helmet...

Alas...

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I must be getting too old. (Actually 53 1/2. Is that THAT old???)

Do people remember when a photograph was a photograph, and even
if one had studied somebody's (19th Century?) composite made from
more than a dozen separate negatives, that was a fluke, and a photo
was a photo?

Thousands of miles away from most of you, I watch the same TVAtlanta
as you, I think, and wonder about people being frozen stiff and jangled
about out of frame, with maybe an advert. under an artificial solid border,
flipping off, and ask myself: what happened to a simple cut -in film or
video-, or maybe to reality in a simple photo ?

What happened to a take lasting more than 2 or 3 seconds???

I suppose, -no, I know- we have to live together, those who fake
things (as in ads and, alas, others) and those who don't, but I'll still take
the photograph with the *least* manipulation over anything wondrous  -computer or otherwise- offered by anyone else. (Save occasionally
for "entertainment", if so labelled.)

Gawd, should I be a politician? TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY!

I suppose I'm getting too old...

pnovak


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