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Roger Cowland - The Optically Effected Client

Roger Cowland - The Optically Effected Client

1983

  • NFSA ID0AZTF946
  • TypeFilm
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormShort
  • GenresEducational, Comedy
  • Year1983

A man walks into a Film lab in the 1980s and presents his film for laboratory work and says it is urgent. The following scenarios show a variety of optical effects available at the time. These include freeze frame, fades and dissolves, smoke effects and more.

The cast is a variety of Colorfilm employees that were practising technicians in the day.

A man walks into a Film lab in the 1980s and presents his film for laboratory work and says it is urgent. The following scenarios show a variety of optical effects available at the time. These include freeze frame, fades and dissolves, smoke effects and more.

The cast is a variety of Colorfilm employees that were practising technicians in the day.

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