Larry Miles

Thank you very much, that is very helpful.

I thank you both for your thoughts. I completely agree that the inherent graininess of the super 8 format, along with period appropriate costume, design, and hair, will go a long way in evoking that period. But might someone be willing to give me their technical, and/or aesthetic, critique of the movie images created that year. I'm speaking in terms of color, saturation, luminance, etc. For example, some of today's film boasts a luminance range of 13 and half stops. I have to assume that film of that day had no where near that latitude, therefore, I may not want my corrected image to have it, either.

I am making a short film that takes place at sundown/magic hour in front of a bright red country store in 1970. I will be shooting on film using a Beaulieu 7008 super 8 camera with an assortment of lenses available, though I am leaning towards a Schneider 8-50 with a wide angle adapter. A couple of Edward Hopper paintings, specifically "Gas" and "Four Lane Road," are serving as inspiration. In terms of what I'm going for, I wish to create living photographs that at least somewhat emulate those paintings but look as though they were filmed in 1970, with that year's film technology. Can anyone help me analyze images from that year and tell me what makes them look specifically from 1970? Then, of course, please help with how I can recreate that look. Pro8mm of Burbank will be processing, color correcting, and scanning the film with their Millennium II HD scanning suite. I believe they can load any commercially available film into a super 8 cartridge, thus I can theoretically use any film that's out there, though their standards are the Kodak Vision 3 family and Fuji Eterna. Below is a link to a set of film images from that year. I am leaning towards "Le Circle Rouge", "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage", and, of course, "The Conformist". http://www.flickr.com/photos/59050617@N05/sets/72157626848677867/ Here are links to "Gas" and "Four Lane Road," respectively: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PCs6ChTq3sQ/TMbWtbpuUqI/AAAAAAAABZ8/PnSuhMhwKaI/s1600/Gas+Edward+Hopper.jpg http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/1/9649.jpg I deeply appreciate any help.

Hello, all. Does anyone know how the opening shots of Sam Peckinpah's (and John Coquillon's) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid were achieved? I'm referring to before the first scene in which Garrett is killed. The images before the scene were made to look like old photographs. I'm the kind of guy that thinks that if they were to have shot the whole picture that way it would have been the greatest thing in the world. Thanks in advance.