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Fri 29 Nov, 2002 05:16 pm
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Letty's thread about the Wizard of Oz, I noted that the moment when Dorothy opens the door to reveal Oz in all of its technicolor glory reminded me of the moment in "Jurassic Park" when we first see the dinosaurs. Both movies took a new technology -- color film, CGI -- and used it with stunning results.
Can you think of other examples of especially fortuitous marriages of story and the means available to tell it?
Well, always the one that frist comes to mind is when the primate flings the femur bone into the air and it becomes a spaceship in "2001."
What technology was used for that, though? Seems pretty basic -- fade-in/-out. No?
Hi soz,
I'm thinking that "House of Wax", being the first major studio "3-D" release is up that alley.
Yeah, you're right -- I finally am tuned in to what you're asking. Although Kubrick used pretty conventional technology, the final voyage to infinity in the film is still pretty spectacular and soon to be more so in IMAX!
Although "The Long Trail" with John Wayne was officially the first wide screen anamorphic image, "The Robe" was the first color film.
Phoenix, How can you remember that?
Good Lord, woman, you sure do get around
and have a terrific memory.
Al Jolson, saying, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" in 'The Jazz Singer.'
Perfect, PDiddie. (And welcome!)
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