An optical printer with two projectors, a film camera and a'beam splitter', was used to combine the actor in front of a blue screen together with the background footage, one frame at a time.
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The sepia tinting, which adds a lot to the nostalgic atmosphere, was actually unintentional and the result of a couple of problems Conner and Gleeson had with the transformation of the sound to the optical printer.
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Aerial image technology was used in optical printers and movie special effects photography before the advent of computer graphics in movie production, and also for combining animation and live action footage onto one piece of film.
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The Williams process did not use bipacking, but rather an optical printer, the first such device that synchronized a projector with a camera, so that several strips of film could be combined into a single composited image.
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It moved premises to 6 Dean Street, then to 147 Wardour Street before finally settling at 8 11 Bateman Street as the biggest optical house in Soho with six camera rooms, an optical printer and two film studios.
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Digital planning began for " The Empire Strikes Back " in 1980, for which Richard Edlund received the Academy Award for his work to create an aerial-image optical printer for combining mattes, though this process was still analog.
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In 1987 Ukrainian engineer and animator Eugene Mamut together with three colleagues won the �Oscar?( Scientific and Engineering Award ) for the design and development of RGA / Oxberry Compu-Quad Special Effects Optical Printer for the movie �Predator?/s>One behemoth, an RGA / Oxberry Compuquad Special Effects Step Optical Printer _ a name worthy of its size _ used four projector heads and five computers controlling 19 separate motions to project image upon image for complex effects.
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Dornfeld, who has four employees, started work earlier this year using mostly optical printer techniques for a project that cost the client $ 20, 000 for 600 feet of film; creating the same footage digitally would have cost $ 65, 000.
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Toland said that he disliked the results of the optical printer, but acknowledged that " RKO special effects expert Vernon Walker, ASC, and his staff handled their part of the production a by no means inconsiderable assignment with ability and fine understanding ."
