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Here's one: https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue/ https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
by chrisbennet 10y ago
Here's one:
https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue/ https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
- caf 10y agoAnother movie one: Between the time that Tyler Durden pointed out the "cigarette burn" marks at the change-of-reel and the time that digital projection displaced film, I'd notice them _every_ time.
- ghaff 10y agoCue dots were actually largely anachronisms in most commercial movie theaters before digital came along because multiplexes spliced most films onto one large platter--though cue dots may still have been present. There were typically two cue dots for each ~15 minute reel. On the first cue dot, the projectionist would start the second projector running while the second was the cue to actually switch over.
- caf 10y agoThey did still have the cue dots on each reel, because smaller movie theatres still used changeover projection. In such a theatre you'd also often see a slight jump in the positioning of the picture when the changeover happened.