Today, March 18, in 1982, Seattle high schooler David Lightman teaches his friend Jennifer Mack about war dialing, hacking, phreaking, and the importance of infosec (WarGames, 1983)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #WarGames #TheOnlyWinningMoveIsNotToPlay

Today, February 12, is loyal beagle Gromit's birthday. Happy birthday, Gromit! (The Wrong Trousers, 1993)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #Gromit #TheWrongTrousers #WallaceAndGromit #StopMotion #Claymation #Aardman #Animation

John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) has the best rage-quit ever committed to film

#Movies #Film #Horror #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

I created some #Halloween themed QR codes. A sinister little selection of 12 movie monsters.

Recognise them all?

Warning: Using your device to read the codes may lead to a poltergeist haunting...
#movies

Today, October 21, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Jennifer Parker arrive in 2015 from the year 1985 (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)

#BacktotheFutureDay #Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #BTTF #BackToTheFuture ##BackToTheFutureII #BackToTheFuture2

Ian Failes of before and afters has an utterly fascinating article about the tests to add motion blur to Phil Tippett's stop motion dinos for Jurassic Park. While I knew of those attempts, I don't recall ever hearing that they used MORF (used in Willow) to try to make the dinos more realistic. Eventually the CG tests paved the way for a #VFX revolution

#movies #JurassicPark #StevenSpielberg #PhilTippett #morfing #StopMotion #dinosaurs #CG

https://beforesandafters.com/2023/06/13/how-ilms-morf-tool-nearly-became-the-way-the-stop-motion-dinos-were-motion-blurred-on-jurassic-park/

Sean Nesbit’s brilliant observation.

#NYCsmoke #NYCAir #movies #colorist

Content warning: The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 11 - Germany - expand the content warning to open the window for today! Click to open/close

As the app that is the star of today's window has updated on my phone today, let me introduce you to Greta, the German app for audiodescription, closed captions and other forms of accessibility in movies.
It works by first downloading an encrypted, I believe, copy of the movie's audio and then when we want to watch it described or subtitled, we just start the app, let it listen to the sound around us and it will tune in at the right spot in time with the accessibility accommodations we need. Should you forget your headphones to hear the audiodescription in, you can still listen to it over the earpiece. The system is not context-aware so it can tune into the movie at a cinema or at home when watching on the Internet or on TV which gives universal access to all the accommodations. The only wish I would have is more independent cinema productions and the ability to combine multiple adjustments so that I could watch that movie with a lot of Austrian dialect in it with both audiodescription and subtitles.
Today's update brings sound amplification. If I understand correctly, you can also have the actual audio track of the movie played through your phone in sync with the original.
I believe the concept was replicated in other countries already so you might know it under another name.
https://www.gretaundstarks.de
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Germany #Culture #Movies #Audiodescription #Cinema #TV #Subtitling

Kino einfach gemeinsam erleben mit GRETA und STARKS

Barrierefreies Kino für Alle! Audiodeskriptionen und Untertitel überall und einfach auf dem eigenen Smartphone mit den Apps GRETA und STARKS.

^{GRETA und STARKS | Audiodeskription und Untertitel}