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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dunn developed the Acme-Dunn optical printer to be mass-produced out of a request from the United States' military. The printer was revolutionary in both...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

create 75 seconds of computer graphics needed for the creature. An optical printer was used for the compositing of the sequence, except from the shot...

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...

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

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...

were then photographed on a computer-controlled animation stand. An optical printer added the colors, requiring multiple passes with color filtration and...