An optical printer is a device consisting of one or more film projectors mechanically linked to a movie camera. It allows filmmakers to re-photograph...

Toland for years.: 110  The optical printer improved some of the deep focus shots.: 92  One problem with the optical printer was that it sometimes created...

foreground opaque. Next, a three-layer sandwich of film is run through an optical printer. On the bottom is the unexposed copy film. Above it is the first matte...

mattes or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might be used to place actors or sets against a different...

were used to control the optical printer. For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created a "quad optical printer" that accelerated the process...

an optical printer for further processing. He was unable to find an optical printer priced within his budget, so he built one himself. The printer was...

up printer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Printer may refer to: Printer (publishing), a person Printer (computing), a hardware device Optical printer...

scenes. At Tsuburaya's insistence, Toho purchased an Oxberry 1900 optical printer to remove damages in composite photography shots. It is the final film...

required an optical printer to extract the "separations". This was necessary for its three-color process: red/"cyan printer" and green/"magenta printer" printed...

made extensive use of composite shots in the film, and utilized an optical printer to combine different shots. Blue screens and miniature sets were also...

Toho to purchase the "Optical Printer 1900 Series" in order to facilitate the production of special effects, while noting that optical synthesis technology...

digital technology, a split screen in films was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto...

he became familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for Citizen...

for the effects and the live-action sequences through a two-headed optical printer and capturing the results with a camera. Anvil of Crom Blaring French...

film was photographed in Super 35, an optical printer was used to anamorphose (squeeze) the image. This optical step reduced the overall quality of the...

involved with shooting animation in that era. Modifying a process optical printer, he was able to exchange sprocket heads and pull down pins that were...

editor, print them locally on a printer, and can save thousands of dollars on large numbers of forms. Identifying optical marks within a form, such as for...

Academy Awards. It required several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer and sixteen hours a day over seven months to make the short. The film...

sparrows fly in through the chimney of the family home. Utilizing an optical printer, his superposition of a group of small birds flying inside an enclosed...

cartridge. These chips offer no benefit to the end-user—some laser printers used an optical mechanism to assess the amount of remaining toner in the cartridge...

received the Academy Award for his work to create an aerial-image optical printer for combining mattes, though this process was still analog. The first...

mattes, or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might place actors or sets against a different background...

assassination buff Robert Groden used one of Weitzman's copies and an optical printer to make versions of the Zapruder film with close-ups and minimize the...

the academy aperture) and then reducing the image in Technicolor's optical printer. This process is a predecessor of today's Super 35 format, which also...

of a flashback. In the film, this effect is usually created with an optical printer by controlling double exposure from frame to frame. In linear video...

colour filters in the process of making duplicate negatives in an optical printer. Not one foot of this film was made with computer-generated special...

Academy Awards Technical Achievement Award For the design of an improved optical printer for special effects and matte shots. — Won 1964 Best Effects, Special...

either be an in-camera effect or an effect produced with the use of an optical printer. There are various reasons why this technique may be adopted, such...

identified with Kurosawa is the wipe, an effect created through an optical printer: a line or bar appears to move across the screen, wiping away the end...

read by an optical sensor on the printer head (common on inkjets). Because the printing involves mechanical pressure, dot matrix printers can create carbon...