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colpepper1 said:Spielberg's beach footage in 'Private Ryan has mileage as a horror device being, as I understand it, a combination of an undercranked camera with overprints at the negative stage filling the time gaps. That's before we get onto bleached and flared film stock and a host of other jiggery pokery.
He mainly used hand held cameras, with triggered vibration motors attached, and shot using fast shutter speeds - each framed image becomes sharp and perfectly focused. There's no 'humanistic' blurring from one frame to the next - just a 'juddering' effect (you get see bullet shell casings being expelled from weapons quite clearly - instead of just a fuzzy, more realisic, mush of 'something'). And most of the colour was 'washed out' later to make the footage more 'black and white - ish' and authentic.