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chris April 19 2006, 10:42:54 UTC
the technicolor thing reminds me of this process, done in the early 20th century.

the nun movie reminded me of this joke

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tyrven April 19 2006, 10:56:47 UTC
Oh, yeah - that seems like a really similar process; that's fascinating. Semi-related, have you ever seen the collection of color photographs from World War I? There is a book of them and they're also scattered around the net in various forms.

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lormagins April 19 2006, 11:09:36 UTC
actually in film school we were told that the primary reason motion picture film took longer to jump on the color bandwagon was due to the thickness of the color negative, which required more time to expose than black and white, based on how it was made at the time. now, we're not talking long minutes, just a variance in seconds, but in motion that variance creates problems because if you have to change your shutter speed it changes the motion speed of the object you're filming, and it can screw with sound syncing as well.

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tyrven April 19 2006, 20:01:44 UTC
Oh - that makes perfect sense. Where as in the development/printing process that isn't an issue and therefore they could go from three distinct black and white reels to a single color reel because they were afforded more than 1/24th a second exposure time. Fascinating.

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fritz_da_kat April 19 2006, 16:57:30 UTC
Sounds like a story from Boccaccio's Decameron.

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silvergrrl April 19 2006, 17:27:20 UTC
So I once saw this porno where the mother superior totally fists one of the nuns like, up the forearm and shit, and now I'm scarred for life. So be careful.

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tyrven April 19 2006, 22:27:58 UTC
That's hardcore. Although perhaps some scarring would be benefitial as it might cure me of this unhealthy fascination with the sexual lives of nuns.

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chris April 19 2006, 23:09:17 UTC
wait, whats unhealthy about that?

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tyrven April 19 2006, 23:22:02 UTC
Well, it's more of an inconveniance. For instance, when negotiating my relationship with Katie I had to go out of my way to make sure that she understood that any fidelity agreements we came to excluded nuns. Also, if we're on vacation and there is, say, a nunery across the street (as there was in New Orleans) then she needs to understand that I may not come back to the hotel until early in the morning.

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Playing Nun tyrven April 19 2006, 22:29:28 UTC
Next time you decide to get together to play "nun" with your friends, please extend an invite to me.

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