American Cinematographer - March 1990 - 34

crack in the rocks. Neame had the
children poised to catch the light
on half of their faces, with the
other half barely visible in the
blackness. "The blacks you can

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Faster Frame Rate?

get in color now are the best I've
ever seen," said Cardiff. "This
really puts the audience in the
cave

sharing the children's ad¬

venture, and that was the point."
There was a fair amount
of blue screen and front projec¬
tion work on The Magic Balloon.
There is a flying sequence with
one of the children who lands on
a beach in the middle of a
heavy
rainstorm with flashing light¬

ning. The rain sequence was shot
on a
stage against a blue backing
at Culver

Studios, with artificial
rain, wind and smoke for diffu¬
sion. This was composited with
background plates shot at the

Pacific Palisades, in Southern
California.
Beale and Cardiff agree
that the blue separation charac¬
teristics of the 5296 film are supe¬
rior for travelling matte work.
Because of the speed of the film,
blue screen plate shots can be set

faster with less light, yet the
image quality is superior.
"Any time you are doing
opticals or other work that re¬
quires multiple generations of
photography, image sharpness
and grain are crucial," Beale said.
"This is particularly true for

up

Showscan. Because the

BOTH.

image is so large, any noticeable
grain or loss of sharpness is
magnified. It would be like send¬
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this is

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trick shot. That would

a

spoil the illusion entirely.
"With the high cost of
making movies today, you must
have

an

idea of what you are

going to do," he said. "But, you
also have to be willing to take
chances and improvise. Very of¬
ten, it is the small things you do
which

change the nature of

a

movie."

There is

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when the two kids

are walking
bright sun-lit street. They
go into a restaurant and are

down a



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