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 Printing Movie Style    Sunday, January 23, 2005   

I learned a new way to print today while watching the movie Under Suspicion on TV. In it, Liam Neeson plays a private detective/photographer who takes photos of people in compromising positions.  Early in the movie, he's in the darkroom printing.

He's working under a yellow safelight - movies seem to usually use red.  He develops the print by putting the paper in the developer and sloshing the developer around with his bare hand. Then he simply grabs the print and hangs it from a string with clips.  No stop, no fixer, no washing, no nothing. Hmmm.

Amazon has the DVD here, if you're interested.





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