05-24-2021, 03:45 PM
Well we used to shoot on film, 16 or 35. Then wide screen was invented and we shot on anamorphic cinemascope or Todd-AO. An outlier was Cinerama shot with three camera and projected by three with the screen bent out left and right. Then Super 35 and Super 16 were the forerunners of wide screen TV which became HD, a slightly smaller scan then S35. Of course while this was happening Ampex invented videotape, didn't have a clue to marketing and lost out to Sony, Ikegami and Panasonic. But videotape ultimately couldn't hold off digital and I can carry hundreds of hours of raw material in my pockets and not in a bunch of cases.
Personally, I still like the texture of the remaining film stocks and the feel of actually touching work print while making magic on a Movieola editing machine. But nobody does that anymore. Hardly anyone uses long takes The Underground Railroad and I'm sure that Frederick Weisman is pissed. Staccato is king.
Personally, I still like the texture of the remaining film stocks and the feel of actually touching work print while making magic on a Movieola editing machine. But nobody does that anymore. Hardly anyone uses long takes The Underground Railroad and I'm sure that Frederick Weisman is pissed. Staccato is king.