https://shotonwhat.com/finishing-method/photochemical-color-timing-process The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:10:56 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. ]]> 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/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:08:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. ]]> 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/dantes-peak-1997 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:02:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dantes-peak-1997
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America, and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-revolutions-2003 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:39:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-revolutions-2003
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith. ]]> 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: 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/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/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/apocalypse-now-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
]]> 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/pulp-fiction-1994 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:59:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pulp-fiction-1994
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cinematographer: Andrzej Sekula
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster & his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. ]]> 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/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/back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:56:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/batman-1989 Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:42:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-1989
Director: Tim Burton
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rosewood-1997 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:38:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rosewood-1997
Director: John Singleton
Cinematographer: Johnny E. Jensen
A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community. ]]> 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-patriot-2-2000 Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:09:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-patriot-2-2000
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-time-to-kill-1996 Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:39:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-time-to-kill-1996
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cinematographer: Peter Menzies Jr.
In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan. ]]> 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-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/natural-born-killers-1994 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:43:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/natural-born-killers-1994
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. ]]> 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/the-window-2008 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:36:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-window-2008
Director: Carlos Sorin
Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia
While bed-ridden Antonio awaits a visit from his long-lost son, the alluring view of Patagonia from his window leads him to escape for one last stroll. Argentina. Spanish w/English ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chronicle-of-an-escape-2006 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:38:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chronicle-of-an-escape-2006
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano
Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia
The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bolivia-2001 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:11:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bolivia-2001
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano
Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia
A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/end-of-days-1999 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 01:58:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/end-of-days-1999
Director: Peter Hyams
Cinematographer: Peter Hyams
At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/elf-2003 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:48:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/elf-2003
Director: Jon Favreau
Cinematographer: Greg Gardiner
After discovering he is a human, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole decides to travel to New York City to locate his real father. ]]>