What older movies made a good use of either side stepping special effects or have effects that somehow still hold up today? Why are they good movies?
What older movies made a good use of either side stepping special effects or have effects that somehow still hold up today? Why are they good movies?
Mary Poppins. The (as it possibly happens) one of a kind lense that perfectly matched the frequency of light produced by sodium vapor lamps. It produced a green screen like effect that was better than anything else for decades to come.
Look at the above image above and notice how perfectly you can see the background through the diaphanous fabric of the hat.
The wild part about it is that this technique required a very specific prism in the camera in order to work properly, and the tech behind it was completely lost to time and nobody else knew how to make that work, which is why we’ve primarily had blue/green screens with chunky matte lines ever since. The guys at Corridor Digital managed to recreate the effect pretty authentically, and it’s awesome to see the results of their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
I have a really tough time believing that for decades people couldn’t figure out how to do this and so sufferer with chromakeying on hundred, 200+ million dollar blockbustere