Horizon's look a ILM and VFX - Part 1 (Optical Printing) 

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More like Darth (Agnes) Varda

How do they create the black silhouette of the ship?

We don't use these technologies nowadays. It's all done in the computer.

Yup, that's what I meant, at 2017 we just can do such a thing with 1 computer (and you don't even need a top of the line with 2 CPUs) but No one comes up with original ideas, these guys at the time did the unthinkable with the technology they had.... our imagination has declined by great heaps in the recent decade

@Ananda Priyadharshan Wrong, the ideas are in the software today you can't see unless you understand something about software development. If you're referring to story telling and not technology. Well, we have very good movies even today. Avatar and Interstellar are one example in the science-fantasy and science-fiction genre.

Computers since along time back.

We have much better technology and I think instead of it being quicker, they spend way more time on single scenes. Like 300+ hours on some of the new avengers

Most impressive.

Nice, I had this shown in my class because in the class we were studying Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and when I was watching the movie there is a bluescreen shot. The shot is at watch?v=oowcsynjIwc at timestamp 2:07.

Yep, caught that as well. The Star Wars triolgy was shot on 35mm anamorphic. VistaVision is both non-anamorphic (perfect for optical composites) and has more image area, even with top and bottom cropped to (about) 2.39:1. The only drawback is that the final optical composite in VistaVision has to be printed onto 35mm anamorphic to be inserted into the original camera negative edit.

@@truefilm6991 _"The only drawback is that the final optical composite in VistaVision has to be printed onto 35mm anamorphic to be inserted into the original camera negative edit."_ The reasoning behind doing the VFX shots in VistaVision, in addition to the fact that it's non-anamorphic, is that it has higher resolution than something like 35mm Panavision. When you make an optical composite, there will be diminished resolution in the final result owing to generational loss because the composite is literally a copy of each of those elements combined into one. Doing the VFX elements in a higher resolution format compensates for such loss, so the final composite will reasonably match, quality wise, with other assets used in editing. Of course, digital compositing solves a lot of the problems involved with optical compositing.

Linwood G. Dunn expanded the concept in the 1930s by creating an optical printer that eliminated the necessity to create optical effects in the camera, and which was used in King Kong. These first optical printers had to be individually developed by each movie studio.

Yaeh, i was brought here by with that question in mind and some google

No, Cameron didn’t work at ILM. He worked for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures.

the wforce Well BBC Horizon is a British TV show so i guess its not all that surprising.

not true

I disagree. Computers increased the possibilities and quality and lowered the costs. Just compare Battlestar Galactica (TOS/1978) with Battlestar Galactica ( re-imagining/2004). The latter is much better in all aspects, even storytelling.