[Leica] Inspired by a film

[vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting)]

Filmmaker magazine reports this production information for "Good Night..."

Production Format: 35mm.
Camera: Two Panavision Millenniums with 11:1 zoom lenses.
Film Stock: Kodak Vision2 500T 5218.
Editing System: Avid Media Composer Version 11.
Color Correction: Autodesk Fire system to conform the entire movie, 
including the archival clips; density grade performed with da Vinci 2K Plus 
technology; film-out via ARRI laser recorders onto Kodak 2302, 
polyester-based, B&W release stock.
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Kodak 5218 is a color negative film, 2302 is B&W

bill h

(Great colors in the film. The period evocation is excellent.)




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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:09 PM
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>
> On Nov 4, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
>
>> I'd love to know the film stock they used. Those great Panavision
>> lenses were used to great advantage and the cinematographer certainly
>> understands how to use black and white. Wow - talk about seeing the
>> PEOPLE.
>
>
> If it was shot on a true black and white stock, it probably was Kodak 
> 5222,
> which is similar to Super-XX (or double XX?). 5222 has been around for 
> decades
> and is a real classic. It looks absolutely stunning, when projected.
>
> Some people use 'short ends' of this stock for bulkloading 135 format 
> cartridges.
> If I rememeber correctly you can develop it in D76, but I think Kodak 
> recommends
> D-19. 5222 is a little grainier than Tri-X, but has as enormous exposure 
> range and
> can easily be pushed. It looks a little like vintage 1950's/60 Tri-X. I 
> think Tom A.
> has some experience doing this.
>
> "The Man Who Wasn't There' was shot on color negative and then printed on 
> black and white
> title print stock. the film is gorgeous, but to my eyes, it still looks 
> like color stock turned b/w.
>
> I haven't seen the film, yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if 'Good Night 
> and Good Luck' was
> shot with period lenses from Cooke, Bausch&Lomb or Arri/Schneider. 
> Visually it's the difference
> between a Summicron DR and the current version.
>
> feli
>
>
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