https://shotonwhat.com/editing-method/cut-negative-film The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:10:56 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:48:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:29:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966
Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:16:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957
Director: William Asher, James V. Kern, Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Cinematographer: Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, Robert De Grasse
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/forrest-gump-1994 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:53:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/forrest-gump-1994
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Don Burgess
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tenet-2020 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:10:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tenet-2020
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:58:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:27:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Christopher Nolan
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Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:26:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997
Director: Rob Sitch
Cinematographer: Miriana Marusic
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:23:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983
Director: Richard Marquand
Cinematographer: Alan Hume, Alec Mills
After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/twin-peaks-1990 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:28:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/twin-peaks-1990
Director: David Lynch, Lesli Linka Glatter, Caleb Deschanel, Duwayne Dunham, Tim Hunter, Todd Holland, Tina Rathborne, Graeme Clifford, Mark Frost, Uli Edel, James Foley, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Diane Keaton, Jonathan Sanger
Cinematographer: Frank Byers, Ronald Víctor García
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:28:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940 Sun, 19 May 2024 19:56:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956 Fri, 17 May 2024 14:50:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915 Fri, 17 May 2024 00:31:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960 Thu, 16 May 2024 16:10:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spartacus-2-1960
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/barry-lyndon-1975 Wed, 15 May 2024 16:51:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/barry-lyndon-1975
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:30:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Cinematographer: Malcolm Hart, Don Lenzer, Michael Margetts, David Myers, Richard Pearce, Michael Wadleigh, Alfred Wertheimer
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-temptation-of-christ-1988 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:59:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-temptation-of-christ-1988
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/do-the-right-thing-1989 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:50:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/do-the-right-thing-1989
Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Ernest R. Dickerson
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:52:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985
Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Nick McLean
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/magical-mystery-tour-1967 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:24:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/magical-mystery-tour-1967
Director: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bernard Knowles
Cinematographer: Ringo Starr
The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:07:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967
Director: Patrick McGoohan, Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, David Tomblin, Robert Asher, Peter Graham Scott
Cinematographer: Brendan J. Stafford
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/body-melt-1993 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:44:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/body-melt-1993
Director: Philip Brophy
Cinematographer: Ray Argall
Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/platoon-1986 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:43:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/platoon-1986
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/manila-in-the-claws-of-light-1975 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 05:36:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/manila-in-the-claws-of-light-1975
Director: Lino Brocka
Cinematographer: Mike De Leon, Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr.
Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/escape-world-safari-iii-1988 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:55:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/escape-world-safari-iii-1988
Director: Alby Mangels
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/razorback-1984 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:42:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/razorback-1984
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
As a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/glengarry-glen-ross-1992 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:02:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/glengarry-glen-ross-1992
Director: James Foley
Cinematographer: Juan Ruiz Anchía
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dark-angels-1998 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:47:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dark-angels-1998
Director: David Wadley
Cinematographer: Edwin Myers
Angela must choose between her abusive husband and the baby she has on the way. Their world is full of sex, drugs, and money, with violence an ever-present threat. Angela finds that only spiritual awareness can help her escape the... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:23:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-1973
Director: Craig Gilbert
This was the original "Real World". The show was a weekly documentary which followed the real life travails of the Loud family, a mixed up cluster of suburbanites. The show picked up lots ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:01:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-kong-2-1933 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:32:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-kong-2-1933
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cinematographer: Edward Linden, J.O. Taylor, Vernon L. Walker, Kenneth Peach
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-shining-1980 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 09:56:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-shining-1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:06:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/friday-the-13th-part-viii-jason-takes-manhattan-1989 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:46:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/friday-the-13th-part-viii-jason-takes-manhattan-1989
Director: Rob Hedden
Cinematographer: Bryan England
A boatful of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan accidentally pull Jason Voorhees along for the ride. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:00:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-2003
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-1972 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:56:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-1972
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/magnum-force-1973 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:55:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/magnum-force-1973
Director: Ted Post
Cinematographer: Frank Stanley
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/scrooged-1988 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:54:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/scrooged-1988
Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nixon-1995 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:16:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nixon-1995
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jfk-1991 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:53:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jfk-1991
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/superman-1978 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:07:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/superman-1978
Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bambi-1942 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:41:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bambi-1942
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pinocchio-2-1940 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:12:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pinocchio-2-1940
Director: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/clerks-1994 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:55:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/clerks-1994
Director: Kevin Smith
Cinematographer: David Klein
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fantasia-1940 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:30:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fantasia-1940
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lolita-1997 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:00:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lolita-1997
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cinematographer: Howard Atherton
A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter. ]]>