Fun fact: ed wood's cameraman was actually colorblind, he was also the most experienced and professional crew member Ed had
@jmalmsten3 жыл бұрын
Not only that. But a lot of Ed's movies were supposed to be shown cropped to 1.85:1, or at least 1.67:1. And I've tried it on Plan 9. It actually looks very much competent in the slightly wider aspect ratio. Lot's of b and c movies of the era looks like they were shot for that presentation. Which explains why boom mikes and tops of set dressings were not fixed on set. They were supposed to be cropped out during projection. I actually wonder if he and others of that era would have had a better or worse legacy if home video didn't opt for 4:3 open matte transfers of these nonanamorphic productions for decades until wide screen televisions took over. I mean. Better because it makes their films look better when screened as intended. But could also be worse as they loose that charming "incompetence". I mean. I love Black Dynamite for example. But seeing it in widescreen with the boom mikes included gives a false history to the occurence. Either it should be shot and framed for widescreen and presented "wrong" in full frame 4:3. Or it should be presented "right". In widescreen. But we would loose out on those jokes... It is a dilemma for the trash film cineasts for sure. Sorry. Went on a bit of a ramble there.
@luckyrabbit1923 Жыл бұрын
What about Lugosi?
@71crm8 жыл бұрын
I loved the camera man so much-he's always asking Ed "Don't you want to do another shot?"
@clipfilmix8 жыл бұрын
+71crm Haha! So subtle that I never noticed it.
@jjets87754 жыл бұрын
No, it's perfect!
@jmalmsten3 жыл бұрын
"What's to protect, the take was PERFECT!" While it does reflect Ed's priority of speed above all else (because equipment rental and film stock is expensive so he had to speed things along). The cameraman's insistance of shooting another take reflects another side of low grade filmmaking: the fact that cheap labs had a tendency to simply fudge up processing the negative. Ruining takes in the process. So it was a common practice to do it once more just to get another good take "for protection" just in case the only good take was mishandled in post. If you shot scenes in masters in a single take, like Ed was prone to do out of necessity, and the lab screwed up that one take. You had no backup so the editor has a great deal worse time to fix narratives. The practice of "once more for protection" went away when labs became more reliable and later on, with digital, even a c-grade feature can afford duplicating good takes on set as they dump cards to backup discs. Even repairing botched lab-work became more feasable. So shooting a single good take of a master and moving to the next scene isn't as potentially disastrous as it used to be. So. They both have valid points. Get on with the shoot versus making sure the scene shot makes it to the screen.
@TheKennethECarper3 жыл бұрын
@@jmalmsten Yeah, that's the thing with low budget productions is you don't have the money to do it the right way. Equipment rentals cost money. Film stock (back in the day) cost a shitload of money. Actors cost money. Crew. Money. Time cost the production money, money, MONEY, and they didn't have any. No shit he wasn't getting an extra take for protection or any real coverage for that matter. ;)
@JohannesFrykholm11 жыл бұрын
Best Tim Burton movie ever. Period.
@billgibb92122 жыл бұрын
This one of the most brilliant moments in film ever
@gejyspa10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I must admit the double irony of the scene didn't hit me when I first watched it. I just laughed: "Ha, ha, colorblind cameraman". Only when I was watching the DVD feature about the production design and they showed this scene again I was like "Wait a minute. [irony 1] He can't tell the dresses apart, and neither can we! I was so completely caught up in the reality of the movie, the fact that it was in black and white didn't even consciously register. And wait another minute! The fact that a cameraman was colorblind wouldn't have made a difference back then. In fact, it was probably an advantage over normal color vision, because he wouldn't have to take test footage to see how things would look (if he were a true monochromat) [irony #2] . So, in fact, we shouldn't have laughed at that at all. So Tim Burton is making us laugh at something that should have been (ideally) a common, non-humorous, non-ironic situation. [meta-irony]"
@pacerburton6258 жыл бұрын
Well played sir.
@lisamikky16966 жыл бұрын
That's a great observation!
@ws90ninety2 жыл бұрын
Color movies appeared in the 30s.
@gejyspa2 жыл бұрын
@@ws90ninety Very true, but most of Ed wood's movies were not in color. He wasn't filming big budget productions. (But it is actually true that his cinematographer was colorblind)
@nickl9317 Жыл бұрын
Colour is immensely important when filming black and white movies. It determines how it will look at the end of the process, and is incredibly important for makeup purposes and visual effects. It was used for example for the shot at the end of Mask of Satan, showing the witch rapidly age in one shot. It is still a major element of black and white films such as the lighthouse. It doesn’t matter if a film is going to be black and white, colour and lighting are still the most important things to get the image right.
@pacerburton6258 жыл бұрын
if shit was'nt bad enough , now poor Ed finds out his camera man is color blind ...hilarious!
@tareklegrand7747 Жыл бұрын
the movies are in black in white...
@fadetoblackdude7 Жыл бұрын
I always lose my shit from Ed’s face at the end 😂
@CYP02 жыл бұрын
Shout out to Juliet Landau, daughter of the legendary Martin Landau.
@politereminder62842 жыл бұрын
I have to agree with him.the dark grey one is lovely!
@clipfilmix11 жыл бұрын
It's one of these moments when you realize that having this type of casual conversation in black & white pictures would be a bit weird. The actors were actually watching the colors at the other side at the screen, so when we are watching one of these movies we all are, in fact, color blinded :P.
@JustSomeCanadianGuy2 жыл бұрын
I love the idea of a guy who's colorblind getting into photography.
@tareklegrand7747 Жыл бұрын
especially in the black and white era...
@TeamZealand4 жыл бұрын
What's best is, the camera man could easily have either pointed or said "The one on the right or the one on the left." But since they asked him based on a metric he couldn't measure, seemingly knowing so little about him as to not know something pretty important about him (being a very important part of production, as, you know, a color blind camera man) he gave them back a "Fuck you, y'all figure it out like I have to...."
@tareklegrand7747 Жыл бұрын
don't you think that "who cares we're shooting in black & white" could have been a better answer ?
@Dimensioneer8812 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: He also played Kay in The Sword in the Stone and Lou the bar owner in Back to the Future.
@dniwu38784 жыл бұрын
We are colorblind too,because we watching the b&w flim😅
@mattieparkinson9375 Жыл бұрын
Disney fact you probably won't believe until you read imdb.... the cameraman is Kay from Sword in the Stone!!!!
@BobertoReif Жыл бұрын
Edith Head designed costumes for decades wearing glasses that tinted everything black & white. She's won the most single oscars of any person (or something like that)
@PopeOwned12 жыл бұрын
Sorry to respond to such an old comment but it does. He's asking which of the two dresses looks the best, the green or red one. He's not asking which looks on camera because of the color, just which of the dresses looks better for the character. There's a distinction between the two dresses but it's just easier to say "which looks better , the green or red one?" compared to "Which looks better, the one with a plunge neck or the one with a tie around the waist?"
@verak66 Жыл бұрын
I love this scene but have to admit I love Lobo and the door scene more.
@emmagrove64912 жыл бұрын
I think this was inspired by Prince's black and white film Under the Cherry Moon, where the main character's brother asks him which shirt he prefers and Prince says, "I dunno, I kinda like that blue." It was jarring because all the audience could see was grey and darker grey. Just what I think.
@hotbananas11 жыл бұрын
I like the light grey one
@dniwu38784 жыл бұрын
Both are! Haha!
@ricarleite12 жыл бұрын
@thelonz69 Well he worked on B&W pictures, so, he was pretty good!
@dniwu38784 жыл бұрын
0:20both are! Ha ha!
@madboy1able12 жыл бұрын
RIP
@thelonz6912 жыл бұрын
Finding a Good DP aint so easy!!!!ha,ha,ha,
@Mechashiva763 жыл бұрын
does anyone know which one was red or green? i'm guessing the light gray one is green. i was hoping they would state which was which in the commentary track, but they didn't :P
@COLovesYou112 жыл бұрын
haha because the whole movie is black and white... I see watcha did there Timmy
@2ndnickthegreek99212 жыл бұрын
@cdudetheassassin Actually, it completely broke it in a very witty way just in this scene! And if one thinks on it... Tim Burton's worlds are never like ours, so this is in fact a world in black and white!
@tyrantgregcagkaiju716 жыл бұрын
This is a nice scene, but it is FAR from the “funniest” part of the movie.
@TheMiels3 жыл бұрын
depends on what kind of humor youre into ig
@ironhandz112 жыл бұрын
I love this movie, but this scene actually makes no sense. He was shooting on Black and White anyway, so why would he even need to ask it? It's a funny in-joke, 'cause this is a B&W film, but it makes no sense in the logic of the story. ... and Martin Landau's daughter is hot in this movie!