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Subject: [Leica] Leica Sighting in "Coraline"
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:38:49 -0400
References: <C6B0E6C1.5316C%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Thanks for the background Mark.  I noticed the Laika name at the  
beginning of the movie but didn't connect it to the M3 in the film  
until you mentioned it.  Someone at Laika must be a Leica fan.

Regards,

Dick



On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> Coraline used an M3 to take pictures of her friend in this scene,
>> about the last thing I expected to see in a cartoon drama.  There  
>> must
>> have been a Leica fan on the animation team.  When the camera cut  
>> to a
>> through the finder view, there was the single M3 50 mm frame line  
>> just
>> where it belonged (though stretched to 16:9, for artistic purposes, I
>> suppose).  She's left eyed, too.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/misc/300_5353.jpg.html
>>
>> Taking pictures off the TV set was easy once I realized you had to
>> move the camera in and out from the screen until you found a distance
>> (actually magnification, I suppose) that defeats the moire.  Screen
>> capture is not allowed from DVDs in a Mac.
>>
>> "Coraline" was great fun, BTW.  I really enjoyed it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>
> Coraline  was created a few blocks from my old house photo studio in  
> NW
> Portland OR where I lived and worked for 20 years. Used to be a big  
> building
> which said WOODWORKING on it.
> They turned the W up side down so it said MOODWORKING. And starting  
> making
> claymation movies in the early 80's.
> Nike's Phil Knight and his son bought them out.
> Now its called Laika, Inc!!
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1459080/coralines_laika_inc_rise_of
> _a_prominent.html?cat=40
>
> http://tinyurl.com/o3ncv6
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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