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post Dec 2 2014, 10:42 AM

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QUOTE(6so @ Dec 2 2014, 09:37 AM)
There will never be an autofocus cinema lens to begin with. To be technical the cinema lenses are a different category from dslr camera altogether. Until today when you uses Red camera or Arri Alexa,all lenses strictly on manual focussing so it's viable to use those lens on various camera body and to build the best optical lens already took up a lot of weight and volume,so it's impractical to slap another motor that are proficient and silent in every single focal length.Furthermore until today the technology isn't there yet to replace a human focus puller as the calculation simply couldn't keep up with the precision of a human hand-eye tracking a moving subject.The closest autofocus you can get is on a motion control rig but all point to point focus are pre-calibrated during rehearsal.Just to be clear.

Chroma key (green/blue and in rare cases red) only happens efficiently during the mid-90's as it uses COMPUTER software to do clean-up.Before that all either practical optical illusion or optical background projection or frame by frame painting/erasing or even sandwiching two different negatives to make a single negative.Hence you saw a different exposure of the attacking bird to overlap the background plate that gives away the crude outline.Pre Star Wars era,majority of effects shot are limited only to static framing (not counting jittery stop motion) as fluid 3 axis movement simply unfeasible before the invention of motion control rig when comes to compositing elements.
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post Dec 8 2014, 05:04 PM

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North by Northwest (1959)

For the life of me, I cannot understand, how I had watched this movie a couples of time and not posted a review of this movie here...

I am really REALLY getting old.

My, Hitchcock sure liked Cary Grant. He had appeared in Hitchcock's, Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) & North by Northwest (1959).

SO much so, that one would question if Cary Grant knew that it is actually director Stanley Donen who directed Charade (1963) (a Hitchcock-ish movie) and not Hitchcock!! laugh.gif

Being one of Hitchcock's best known works, I don't know if there is any additional information I can add to this except for

1) Paramount Pictures contracted Hitchcock out to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to do this, and after the success of this movie, Paramount supposedly pressured Hitchcock for another "North by Northwest-ish" project for Paramount and Hitchcock said no. Hitchcock then approach Paramount with Psycho and because of the subject matter, Paramount refused to fund the movie, and Hitchcock himself had to come up with the money for Psycho instead but he was under contract to make another 2/3 movies for Paramount... A solution was devised, Hitchcock would fund Psycho and Paramount would distribute and they would split the profits (if any). Allegedly, the movie was made under USD 1,000,000 and it went on to make USD 32,000,000. So, everyone was happy!!

2) After this movie, Hitchcock did offer Grant another role in his movie, namely, Torn Curtain (1965), and Grant declined, on the ground that he was already working on his last movie, Walk, Don't Run (1966) and would retire after that. Paul Newman got the role in Torn Curtains instead and allegedly, Paul and Hitchcock DID NOT GET ALONG.... Hitchcock swore he would never work with another "big star" after that, and he never did...

Oh, one last thing... If they had handphones back then, this movie's plot would not had worked... tongue.gif

My Two Sen

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time 2 revive back the classic thread laugh.gif rclxms.gif

QUOTE(Mov_freak @ Dec 8 2014, 05:04 PM)
2) After this movie, Hitchcock did offer Grant another role in his movie, namely, Torn Curtain (1965), and Grant declined, on the ground that he was already working on his last movie, Walk, Don't Run (1966) and would retire after that. Paul Newman got the role in Torn Curtains instead and allegedly, Paul and Hitchcock DID NOT GET ALONG.... Hitchcock swore he would never work with another "big star" after that, and he never did...
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haha based on your trivia,,,can i add that he had also successfully ended a "small star" career named TIPPI HEDREN that infamously starred in MARNIE who is mom 2 melanie griffith ohmy.gif with his SPECIAL TIED CONTRACT towards her so that he can sex her off the camera

when she suddenly grew stronger dominantly,,,he had vowed 2 end her career AT ALL COSTS which had successfully destroyed her entire career after MARNIE devil.gif speaking of harsh brutality in showbiz work eh puke.gif

even COUNTESS IN HONG KONG by charlie chaplin the following year cannot revive back miss hedren career anymore mega_shok.gif

what a shame 2 the potential big star who should be following the footsteps of the previous hitchcock babes like ingrid bergman,,,marlene dietrich,,,doris day,,,grace kelly,,,kim novak,,,eva marie saint,,,vera miles today bye.gif

by the way,,,got TV movie depicted the saga of hitchcock very obsessed with hedren during MARNIE filming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_%282012_TV_film%29
you can check and let me know what you think of the biography icon_idea.gif icon_idea.gif

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post Apr 5 2016, 10:52 AM

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QUOTE(skylinelover @ Apr 2 2016, 08:31 AM)
time 2 revive back the classic thread laugh.gif rclxms.gif
haha based on your trivia,,,can i add that he had also successfully ended a "small star" career named TIPPI HEDREN that infamously starred in MARNIE who is mom 2 melanie griffith ohmy.gif with his SPECIAL TIED CONTRACT towards her so that he can sex her off the camera

when she suddenly grew stronger dominantly,,,he had vowed 2 end her career AT ALL COSTS which had successfully destroyed her entire career after MARNIE devil.gif speaking of harsh brutality in showbiz work eh puke.gif

even COUNTESS IN HONG KONG by charlie chaplin the following year cannot revive back miss hedren career anymore mega_shok.gif 

what a shame 2 the potential big star who should be following the footsteps of the previous hitchcock babes like ingrid bergman,,,marlene dietrich,,,doris day,,,grace kelly,,,kim novak,,,eva marie saint,,,vera miles today bye.gif

by the way,,,got TV movie depicted the saga of hitchcock very obsessed with hedren during MARNIE filming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_%282012_TV_film%29
you can check and let me know what you think of the biography icon_idea.gif  icon_idea.gif
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Thanks for that, I did not know that bit of trivia!!

Also, interesting how you "bumped" this when I just got pristine copies of The 39 Steps (1935) and The Wrong Man (1956)!!

Will put their reviews here

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