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Exactly.

Lots of ink has been spilled about how the somewhat ragged matte & process shots in "Marnie" are on purpose. and are Hitchcock's method of letting you know his personal feelings--the lap dissolve on the boat from night to day where for an instant the image in the porthole is blank, which his...

Yes! I had a film professor who said the same thing about Leo McCarey's "An Affair To Remember." We were in a bar after class and McCarey's film was on the television. There is one uninterrupted long shot on the boat between Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr which in this pan & scan version was all...

While I was exaggerating, these professors are coming up with those wild theories because that's how they remain employed; the more outlandish the ideas, the more controversy, the more attention, and the more people sign up for their classes and the more books get sold.

And it would have looked like total crap, because you're using dupes already. And you would then say, "well, look at all that yellow grain..and blurry resolution. And Kubrick is supposed to be a perfectionist?" Once again, you're equating two things that have nothing to do with each other...

Yes, the two are not in any way comparable. That shot with the barley seen rotor blades was out of Kubrick's control, as it was done on commission by a US crew in Oregon, and Kubrick probably didn't see the film at all until much later, and redoing it would probably have been cost-prohibitive...

I don't know if it's in every shot. It was there intermittently when I saw it in a theater, but the dye-transfer prints softed it considerably. With digital, it would be hard not to notice. Then again, I'm there for the characters and the story and the mise en scene and the imagery, not the...

Yes, all movies prior to digital have continuity errors, because it was done analogue in real time. And no matter how generous the budget, one didn't have the time or money to go back and reshoot everything. Dr. Strangelove, for instance, is filled with continuity errors. I can't tell you how...