Is the look of old movies just a thing of the physical material they worked with at the time or like some sort of aging, or is it literally just that they didn't have computers to mess with it all?
Theres something really appealing to me about that era when it comes to the basic technical look of the colors and lighting, comes off as looking natural.
I'm pretty sure color correction has been around since color films existed. Sergio Leone could have made his movies look yellow if he wanted, but didn't, so I think this is an aesthetic decision.
Aged celluloid films tend to look very pale from the ones I've seen, so maybe that's part of it too. Probably still mostly an aesthetic decision.
Yeah it's always been there but it was prohibitively expensive on top of regular exposure/processing to get the movie to look right. Now you can just change some sliders or curves on a computer. So everyone always does a CC pass just because it's there.
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Is the look of old movies just a thing of the physical material they worked with at the time or like some sort of aging, or is it literally just that they didn't have computers to mess with it all?
Theres something really appealing to me about that era when it comes to the basic technical look of the colors and lighting, comes off as looking natural.
Sometimes both, but in this particular instance, they absolutely could have colored it that way, they just didn't because it looks like shit.
The kino color corrected one looks fine, imo.
Better than the MGM for sure, but still too pissy
I'm pretty sure color correction has been around since color films existed. Sergio Leone could have made his movies look yellow if he wanted, but didn't, so I think this is an aesthetic decision.
Aged celluloid films tend to look very pale from the ones I've seen, so maybe that's part of it too. Probably still mostly an aesthetic decision.
Yeah it's always been there but it was prohibitively expensive on top of regular exposure/processing to get the movie to look right. Now you can just change some sliders or curves on a computer. So everyone always does a CC pass just because it's there.