HIGH DEFINITION
people looked better without it
(Mary Pickford)
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Astonishing beauty
Yes, and what the poster doesn’t know is that there is very high quality negative of this photograph in existence. In other words, Mary Pickford just looked good.
But everything else looks better with it.
weee. more empty, romanticized nostalgia for an era the poster wasn’t even around for.
I was just thinking something along the same lines. Today must be “nostalgia for a time when I wasn’t even born day”
Please, with all the plastic stick-people running around claiming that they embody beauty, can you blame them?
I was recently spotted fanning myself over a picture of Rudolph Valentino. Sure beats screaming my head off over a pointlessly shirtless Taylor Lautner. (His abs are digital, you know)
Neither the human eye nor ear is digital. Reality is analog.
Which is why we, if we want to digitally spread things intended for the human eye, must try to get the information density as high as possible. HD > DVD.
And the human retina has a limited amount of cells, which are analogous to pixels.
And analog pictures have grain: their lenses can’t work perfectly and the light sensitive materials can not be perfectly spread. That works similar to pixels too.
Ah; Mickeysh@ft fanboy still mad that no-one else wanted anything to do with HD-Dead then?
Could you translate that into language accessible to those of us without doctorates in physics, electronics or optical delusions?
High definition is good sometimes, but I miss not having to see every pore, pimple, and wrinkle on people’s faces.
“Coming up next on CSI Miami: David Caruso’s nose hairs.”
Yeah, I can’t count the number of hollywood starlet fantasies that HD has killed for me
Well, since this all of those old movies and pictures were done on film, they were actually several times sharper than “High Definition.”
I’m not sure how the word “this” got into that sentence…
Film stock back then wasn’t as sophisticated then as it is now, though. A lot of it has been restored, but film degrades over time, and it depends on the quality of the projector, etc… I’m just playing devil’s advocate. Sorry. Mary Pickford’s characters always made me a little sick. Now Buster Keaton… there’s a man.
He’s right though… High Definition is about 5 times smaller than 35mm. And its about 1/15th the sharpness of black and white 35.
And now that I think about it, 35mm stills in black and white are about 30 times sharper than HD.
It is true that film stocks weren’t as sharp back then and and poor storage and upkeep can damage the quality (for example, the only good print of Horse Feathers, from which all of the current video releases were made, is missing several minutes), but even back then the picture was still very sharp, which is why they are able to transfer old movies to HD formats.
By the way, here’s proof that even negatives that aren’t taken care of can be extremely sharp (although this isn’t a frame of movie film, it is a large format glass plate):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Theodore_Roosevelt_on_broken_glass.jpg
Seems to me like we’ve got ourselves between a rock and a hard place, HD versus airbrushing (as far as our visual TV/glossy magazine leisure time goes)…thank goodness we all spend real time with real flesh and blood people in all their non-airbrushed/inch-close every flaw visible beauty
But, that is a beautiful pic of Mary Pickford
Its called makeup. Just because they didn’t do it in post doesn’t mean they didn’t do it.
This isn’t funny. Or even interesting. It’s pretty stupid.
don’t be so hard on yourself
You wouldn’t want to see the beautiful Mary Pickford in high definition?
People also looked a lot better when they had class and style back in the day.
That’s quite a beautiful lady, especially considering how she obviously wasn’t photoshopped into oblivion like celebrities nowadays.
I tell ya, the world went into the toilet once they started charging a nickel for a loaf of bread!
*shakes fist*
Who is this Mary person? She’s pretty.
Mary Pickford was America’s Sweetheart – the most famous person in the world in the 1910′s and 1920′s. She was a silent film star known for her long golden curls. She frequently played children due to her small stature. Check out YouTube for some clips of her work. And to SKW, I would love to see Mary in HD – “Sparrows” would be nice, thanks.
In addition to the on-screen accomplishments The Admiral pointed out, in 1919 Mary (along with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and her then husband Douglas Fairbanks) formed United Artists. Not only was she the world’s biggest star, she was also one of Hollywood’s most powerful executives. She was beautiful, talented and way way ahead of her time
FWIW I would like to see her final silent “My Best Girl” in HD
I’d say fail. Nosferatu was shown in 1080 on television some time ago
Are people’s standards really that high?
This is effing stupid. Mary Pickford was beautiful on and off screen and in photographs, films and wherever else anyone saw her.
Mary Pickford was certainly beautiful, but give me Lillian Gish any day!
We’re talking apples and oranges…Is Film better than HD? arugable, but possible…Was film of the silent era equal to the lastest developements? A great big resounding NO!! Were lenses of the cameras equal to what would be common, even basic today? Again, nope. Is Mary Pickford lovely? Of course she was..Hollywood was even more fixated on ‘beauty’ in the 20s than today…Are silent films better than todays movies? Matter of taste…most silent films actors and actresses tended to ‘overact’ but this was triggered by the fact that it was necessary to convey emotions and so forth without any sound whatsoever.
In other words..this is ALL a matter of tastes and tastes vary…
She never did a picture with sound, but she always insisted on memorizing all her lines. If you watch her films closely, you can see for yourself.
SO, not only was she drop-dead gorgeous, she was intensely professional and brilliant to boot.