Visions of Light : the art of Cinematography

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Originally produced as motion picture in 1992.
Featured cinematographers: Gordon Willis, Greg Toland, William Fraker, Vittorio Storaro.
The story of cinematography as seen through the lenses of the world's greatest filmmakers and captured in classic scenes from over 125 immortal movies. Traces the evolution and innovations of cinematography beginning in an era when the movie camera was a marvelous invention, and examines how the filmmaking process was complicated by new cinematic trends and technologies.
DVD; digital mono.

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Picture quality warning submitted by rossorr on February 21, 2019, 7:01pm It's unfortunate that this film about cinematography has such blurry image quality—I almost wonder if the DVD was a straight dupe from a VHS release. The comments from the various cinematographers remain interesting and it might inspire someone to seek out some of the old Hollywood films excerpted here, whose visual storytelling was so rich.