Movies that are not documentaries are an illusion of reality.
Movie makers do not understand why if the characters are fictitious,
the costumes are fictitious, the sets are fictitious, why historical
authenticity is important.
What they do consider important is that it all hangs together as a
plausible illusion, and except for us rollei nuts no one will care
about why there is a cord III in the Gatsby movie
Eric Goldstein
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:29 PM, `Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The picture on the page below also shows a Speed Graphic mis-identified---
as a Graflex. It has its bellows almost fully extended, common in movies,
and there a couple of flashguns. Flasbulbs did not appear until the early
1930s. Speed Graphics were made but most press photographers used Graflex
SLRs until a bit later than this. For the most part movies makers are
hopeless about authenticity; they just don't care. I suppose they think
the audience will never notice or will be to ignorant to know. Or maybe its
the movie makers who are ignorant.
On 6/1/2015 3:13 AM, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
I forgot to mention a link about the topic:
http://camerasinthemedia.tumblr.com/page/16
Carlos
2015-06-01 6:40 GMT-03:00 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
"The great Gatsby" (2013) is a movie set in 1922, however there is a scene
where a Rolleicord III is used to take photographs; the Rolleicord III was
made from November 1950 up to July 1953; you can see it's a III and it's not
a IV because it does not have the "M-X" button below the taking lens and it
does not have the double exposure button below the viewing lens. The
Rolleicord III in the movie is an anachronism clearly.
"The great Gatsby" 2013 version with Leonardo di Caprio has others
anachronisms like the cars model. A previous version (1974) with Robert
Redford had less anachronisms, if my memory serves me good; both versions
are based on the Scott Fitzgerald's novel.
Carlos
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