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"Interestingly, they re-added the original tints to the remaster, as what's not commonly known is that many "black and white" films were projected through a col
by mapt 11y ago
"Interestingly, they re-added the original tints to the remaster, as what's not commonly known is that many "black and white" films were projected through a coloured glass slide, in order to either give the entire scene a hue, or even to make the ground red/brown and the sky blue."
I'd always wondered where Top Gear gained its impressive cinematic style - they must have happened upon a treasure trove of those two-color filters, and asked what it would feel like applied digitally to every other scene with the saturation pumped up.
- mcguire 11y agoAnd then they went crazy with it, to the point where you were watching a purported car review that successfully concealed the color of the vehicle by the application of art. It became distracting. But not as distracting as Top Gear's urge to rotate the camera to emphasize the slope when a car is going up or down hill. Or HGTV's urge to run segments containing fireplaces in reverse.
- madaxe_again 11y agoYou can still buy such things - I use them in photography - See Cokin, for instance - it's their entire business. http://www.cokin.co.uk/ http://www.cokin.co.uk/