Re: [Leica] [ OFF TOPIC ] Bitching against Kodak

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

Mark,

Look at recent films by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, "Raise the Red
Lantern" (1991) and particularly "Ju Dou" (1989) for use of "modern"
Technicolor. Both are widely available on video and are very good films.
Yimou has made quite a few other films, but these two really show off the
Technicolor process.

Bryan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] [ OFF TOPIC ] Bitching against Kodak


>Andre Jean Quintal wrote:
>snip
>>         I read somewhere, about mainland China,
>>         that a simple employee had come up with a whole
>>         system to recycle photo chemicals, use much less
>>         water / chemicals, retain performance and help the environment:
>>         that would seem a "next step" for the megabuck C-41
>>         process... from a user's standpoint.
>>snip
> I heard that they still in mainland China shoot films in three color
>Technicolor which went out in the 40's everywhere else. I just saw a
>thing on cable TV about it and their head makeup guy said he did a film
>test with all the womens lipsticks on his arm and they all came out
>brown on the new non Technicolor stuff. No reds. All the actresses and
>actors were ready to revolt. I'm sure people like Martin Scorcase would
>love to get his hands on that technology. Make those Louisville slugger
>scenes jump to life! As well as those rolling green pastures like in
>Robin Hood.
>Three individual strips of black and white film individually filtered
>and combined. Is that like Kodachrome? I wonder if Kodachrome is at all
>like Technicolor?
>Mark Rabiner