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Originally Posted by doug mc
Kubrick was a master with the camera. All his films are beautiful to watch. Many years later i got a dvd copy of Barry Linden. Blown away of the beauty of each shot in that film. Replaced all my Kubrick films with Blu-ray versions. At 16 years of age, after owning the soundtrack to 2001, i got musically coverted to classical. Needless to say the film had a profound influence on me. Still love it. It will remain more than just a film, a work of art.
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Hi Doug,
That's wonderful. I bet we could talk for hours.
2001 also had a profound influence on me. If I had to choose a single
film worthy of being permanently showed at the Louvre, it would it.
Below is a link to a 30 second video of Vivian Kubrick showing off one of the
famous
Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lenses used for the candlelit
sequences in
Barry Lyndon.
NASA had originally commissioned Zeiss to build ten of them for
the Apollo project to photograph the far side of the Moon. NASA
originally purchased seven, Kubrick acquired three ($$$) and
Zeiss kept one.
He had a technician machine parts of one of his Mitchell cameras so
it would fit because the rear element had to get within 4mm of the film
plane.
Even after pushing the film stock, the depth of field was something like
40mm so they set up a measurement system using a video camera so the
cinematographer could keep tabs that the actors would be in focus.
Video :-
https://youtu.be/dVF1zoyQJHY
Article from
American Cinematographer on the modifications made to
the Mitchell camera to use the lenses :-
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac...tm?LMCL=JjM76k