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Pretty awesome news here for films fans. Researchers have uncovered a missing film from directing legend Alfred Hitchcock — in New Zealand of all places. The name of the movie is “The White Shadow” which should not be confused with the 1970s basketball TV show of the same name. This one is about twin sisters, one angelic and one that “has no soul.”
Monday’s TechStuff episode was all about South by Southwest (or SXSW), an enormous, chaotic and amazing conference that the city of Austin hosts each year. The conference’s original focus was on music. Austin is known as a live music town and has an abundance of bars, restaurants and clubs with dedicated stages for music acts. It was a natural fit for Austin to host a week-long music event. Since 1987, bands from around the world have converged on Austin to play music, hang out with fans and eat their weight in BBQ. And as waistlines have grown, so too has the conference.
The typical consumer digital camera offers 10 to 12 megapixels. Pro cameras tend to top out at about twice that – 24 megaixels or so, like this Nikon: 24 megapixels apparently isn’t enough however. Now there is an 80 megapixel camera from a company named Phase One: According to this article… Phase One pushes ahead [...]
It’s been an exciting week at TechStuff headquarters. I returned from vacation to find we were out of prerecorded episodes. Fortunately, our producers and editors are aces at getting shows published so we never skipped a beat. Chris and I went into the studio like we do every week and they took care of the rest. My hat is off to our amazing team. Now, what did we talk about?
Today, the famed diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau would have been 100 years old. His centennial works as a powerful opener to discussions about the worsening oil spill — his own son, Jean-Michel, wrote for National Geographic that Cousteau “would be heartbroken at what is taking place in our seas today, especially the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.”
When Edwin Land’s daughter asked why she couldn’t see a photograph immediately after it was taken, inspiration struck. Learn how this prolific inventor’s Stuff Of Genius polarized light and made every camera user an amateur film developer in this episode.
How Mad Science Works: Human Flora and “The Fly.”
by Robert Lamb | June 15, 2009
In David Cronenberg’s 1986 film “The Fly,” brilliant scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) accidently splices his genes with a housefly stowaway. But what about all the foreign DNA that would have existed in Brundle’s internal microbes?
Adding color to black and white movies is incredibly tedious. To speed up the process, the coloring is done on a computer, using a digital version of the film. Learn more about colorization in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
Film slates, or clapperboards, are used to synchronize sound and audio during filming. Learn more about clapperboards in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
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