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One of my favorite stunts ever executed in a movie is so simple yet incredibly groundbreaking and it’s in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy opens the door to reveal a full-color world.

The Wizard of Oz starts out in black & white — standard of the time and what people were used to.

But then after Dorothy lands and opens the door, she reveals not only the magical land of Munchkinland but also the magic of technicolor in one single shot.

Since technicolor was not very widely available prior to the Wizard of Oz’s release, for many people it would be the first time they were ever seeing a moving picture in color. What better way to pull it off than in a big reveal like that? Fantastic! I know by today’s standards this doesn’t seem like a lot for a movie, but this was a great trick given the technology they had. What a special way to bring some magic to audiences, especially in a time when things were really down in America during the Great Depression.

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ALSO

This is the greatest special effect you never knew you were looking at.

The celluloid used as film at the time was thick and brittle. Splicing it was basically impossible. How to go from sepia Kansas to technicolor Oz? This was a problem that nearly sank that amazing reveal shot.

Until some crewmember said “why not just film it all in color and paint Kansas brown?”

That’s right. THAT WHOLE THING IS COLOR. ALL OF IT. Bobbi Koshay (Judy Garland’s body double) has been put in brown makeup to hide the pink of her skin. That dress isn’t blue and filmed in sepia, it’s an identical brown dress. The furniture? All painted brown. The walls and door were painted to match their color on the Kansas film rolls....a daunting task, because film at the time came out so incredibly dark that those lush Ruby Slippers were almost orange in real life, just to get that deep red color. (Early tests with actually-red shoes came out black rather than red!)

And it was done so well and so expertly that the only way to tell it’s even there is to get one of the 1970s or TNT prints where Kansas is black and white instead of sepia-tone (since the painted “sepia” will be out of place).

Today we could do this with a click of a button. Back then they had to invent a whole new set.

Drink your “respect the SFX crew” juice today!

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cattgirl

I’ve never seen anything this funny in my goddamned life

JUSTICE FOR CASEY GOODSON

On December 4th, 2020, Casey Christian Goodson Jr. (23 years old) was shot three times in the back and murdered by a Sheriff’s Deputy as he was entering his home in Columbus, Ohio. Goodson’s family stated that he was returning home from a dentist appointment, holding a Subway sandwich, his face mask, and his keys, when he was shot.

Two days later, the Columbus Police Department made a statement alleging that James Meade, the deputy responsible for Goodson’s death, saw a man believed to be Goodson with a gun while driving. Meade then approached Goodson after he exited his car and walked home, where he was shot.

Hours after the shooting, the US Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, Peter Tobin, confirmed that Goodson was not the fugitive they were searching for. However, Tobin also added that he believed that the shooting was justified, claiming that Goodson was shot after he refused to drop his “weapon.”

Yet another Black man murdered by the police.

DEMAND JUSTICE.

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politicalsci

#politics #neera tanden #elizabeth warren #joe biden #democratic party #establishment democrats #capitalism #the left #us politics #neoliberalism

probablyasocialecologist

Direct U.S. subsidies for fossil fuels amount to about $20 billion, with indirect and international subsidies adding up to a mind-boggling $649 billion, according to the IMF. Notably, this does not include government spending on roads, which totaled $181 billion in 2017, well over two-thirds of which is effectively fossil fuel subsidies. To what extent our $6.5 trillion of spending on war in the Middle East since 2001 should be attributed to the oil industry is debatable, but it wouldn’t need to be a large share to be significant. Cutting direct subsidies, imposing taxes to mitigate even some of the externalized costs, and shifting transit spending toward cheaper and more efficient public options with a particular mind to helping people in poverty and reducing the damage that cars do could save quite a lot of money. This could go toward our education and health infrastructure and to fund sustainable development. The Biden campaign had a pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies—but, just before the election, Democrats removed it from their platform.

David Lapp Jost, Fossil Fuels and the American Way of Death (via probablyasocialecologist)

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Seeing terfs demonizing Elliot Page coming out and saying "we lost a lesbian" is an important reminder that terfs target trans men with their rhetoric too. They don't exclude one group in specific when it comes to trans people, they legitimately think being trans is a danger to everyone involved.

Cis lgbt are encouraged to reblog this.

cykelops

i am of course tempted to make a joke about the harley quinn show being an example of gay people cannot have shit ever without some disgusting add-on trying to lump itself with us but the antisemitism in that show seems to fly under the radar and THAT is the bigger problem at hand here

hanniblade

Jews will talk 'subtle' antisemitism (read: antisemitism that isnt openly calling for death to Jews) and how dangerous it is and how it introduces people to antisemitism and people will ignore them then be shocked when Jewish people are hurt in real life. "How can people think like this in current year?' Because you ignore it until it's the absolute worst.

You can reblog fuck nazis post and protect Jews post, but you still have to advocate against antisemitism and it all starts with shows with badly hidden antisemitism

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For anyone wondering

In the very first episode they made Oswald Cobblepot and his wife throwing their son a bar mitzvah. The Cobblepots are very rich, even handing out bags of cash as gift bags. They also control Gotham’s largest bank.

In the fifth episode, Ivy’s Jewish landlords burn down their own building for insurance and called it “Jewish lightning.”

The antisemitic caricatures of Penguin and his family, and of Sy Borgman and his wife, are reminiscent of Julius Streicher's work in Der Stürmer

ayellowbirds

A reminder that there were no major works prior to this that characterized Cobblepot as Jewish. They made a character Jewish just to make him the subject of antisemitism.

ameerawritesstuff

I literally cannot empathize enough how much this bs happens and people tell us Jews that we're "overreacting"

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love triangles can’t exist without at least 1 lgbt person. cishets just don’t know how shapes work

peachy-pumpkin-deactivated-deac

I’ve created this helpful info graphic

ros3quart2

Most of the characters that people call a love triangle is really just a love corner. And the woman is usually backed into it.

anneofgreengaybles

sometimes I tweet about the funny/cute/utterly bizarre shit my 3rd graders do and say

anneofgreengaybles

the latest dispatches from room 156

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happy monday folks

anneofgreengaybles

room 156 is BACK bitches and better than ever!!!!!!!!

anneofgreengaybles

a special room 156 update in honor of election 2020

anneofgreengaybles

2020 continues to be A Time but at least my 3rd graders continue to be the funniest people on the goddamn planet

fallcaesar

Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.