Query: Enlarging images--multiple responses

From: Max Alvarez <[email protected]>

Dear Prof./Mr.Taylor:

This is a tricky topic, but there are a few early examples that come to
mind. Henry Hathaway's CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (20th Century-Fox 1948) uses a
photographic blowup/enlargement to solve the case at the end of the *film
noir *thriller.

Stanley Donen's FUNNY FACE (Paramount 1957) also utilizes (if memory
serves) photographic enlargements, but for romantic effects rather than
suspenseful ones.

If I can think of other examples, I will let you know.

With every good wish,

Very truly yours,
Max Alvarez
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From: Steve Anderson <[email protected]>

A remix video maker named Duncan Robson created a supercut of cinematic
image enhancement sequences in 2009, which includes several of the sources
already cited: http://duncanrobson.com/editing/lets-enhance/

I would also point to a similarly humorous exaggeration of the blown up
image trope in Peter Jackson and Costa Botes' fake documentary Forgotten
Silver, in which a newspaper dateline is enlarged numerous times in order
to prove that the first human flight (along with a majority of cinematic
technologies) was actually developed in New Zealand.

-Steve Anderson, USC
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From: Jeni Thornley <[email protected]>

There is a lot written on 'The Zapruder footage' (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film). It has been enlarged and
re-used in many other contexts;  it is much discussed as to what it reveals
and what it doesn't reveal.

 ("The Zapruder  silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private
citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera, as U.S. President John
F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on
November 22, 1963, thereby unexpectedly capturing the President's
assassination. )

In particular  Stella Bruzzi argues that the Zapruder footage is in fact
not "evidence", even though it was used as evidence in the Warren
Commission:
http://www.questia.com/library/109319546/new-documentary-a-critical-introduction

The film has been featured in films or other media, such as the Oliver
Stone film JFK, which used the clearest copy of the film available to the
public prior to the late 1990s. For example, after the final shot,
Jacqueline Kennedy can be seen mouthing what appears to be the words, "Oh,
my God!" A closeup from the portion of the film showing the fatal shot to
Kennedy's head is also shown in the Clint Eastwood film In the Line of Fire.

Season's Greetings

Jeni Thornley
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
http://www.jenithornley.com/