Query: Enlarging images--multiple responses

From: Jackson, Tony <[email protected]>

I saw an interesting case of this just the other night, in a film I hadn't
previously seen. It's the lynchpin in Call Northside 777. At the end the
reporter (Jimmy Stewart) seals the case by using a brand new (1948)
technology. He has one small square area of a photograph expanded many
times, which reveals a newspaper date that's otherwise invisible. I'll be
interested to see earlier examples of this in film. I'm sure you know an
intriguing (which is to say impossible) example occurs in Blade Runner.

tony j

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From: Christine Karatnytsky <[email protected]>

This is perhaps only tangentially-related, based on the example given
of the surveillance camera and license plate, but the first thing that
springs to my mind is the extreme close-up (enlargement) of Marion
Crane's eye as she lays dead in the shower in "Psycho."

cheers, I think,

Christine Karatnytsky
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From: Trost, Theodore <[email protected]>

Blade Runner.  By enlarging a photo, focusing in on a mirror, then zooming
in on an image in the mirror, Deckard is able to see a woman (Replicant)
behind a door.
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From: Marcia Blackburn <[email protected]>

Blade Runner when Decker is in Leroy's apartment and is looking through a
batch of photos found in Leroy's drawer. He takes the photos home and puts
one in a special viewer that allows him to highlight and focus different
parts of the photo, including a reflection in a mirror that reveals another
one of the rebel replicants.

Marcia Blackburn