12.19.2005
Back in the ’80s there was a song by Paul Hardcastle called “19″. The title represented the average age of the combat soldier in the Vietnam war: In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six In Vietnam he was nineteen… Ni-ni-ni-ni-nineteen, nineteen, ni-nineteen, nineteen Nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen… Oliver Stone’s [...]
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12.18.2005
VistaVision is a variant of the 35mm motion picture film format created by Paramount Studios in the 1950s. With all of the other major studios using CinemaScope, Paramount debuted VistaVision in 1954 with White Christmas. The film is run horizontally, as in a still camera, with a width of 8 perforations per frame. This gave [...]
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