Dr. Macro's High Quality Movie Scans

August 4, 2005 8:59 PM

Dr. Macro's High Quality Movie Scans ... high quality scans of famous screen stars and their movies, mostly from the 1940's and earlier, as well as a collection of film clips and movie summaries from the golden age of Hollywood.
posted by crunchland (15 comments total)

Those scans are amazing. I love the depth of field on this image of Clark Gable.
posted by Potsy at 9:08 PM on August 4, 2005

Friggin awesome post. I'm glad I'm not going to have his bandwidth bill.
posted by keswick at 9:39 PM on August 4, 2005

crunchland, oh thank you! Don't miss the wallpapers; I'm going to spend time with Louise on my desktop for a while.
posted by melissa may at 9:45 PM on August 4, 2005

Good point, keswick. I asked Matt to coralize the main link. maybe that'll take a little off the top.
posted by crunchland at 10:15 PM on August 4, 2005

Wow, wow, wow. Thank you so much, crunchland. These shots offer wonderful examples for any budding portrait photographer.

Classic Paramount (butterfly) Lighting
Classic Short Lighting
Classic Rembrandt Lighting
Classic Broad Lighting
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 10:18 PM on August 4, 2005

I love the depth of field on this image of Clark Gable.

Either that's some serious tilt-shift, or (more likely) the lens is covered with Vaseline.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 10:24 PM on August 4, 2005

Thanks crunchland. Excellent post (and so says my mum too).
posted by peacay at 1:52 AM on August 5, 2005

Black "n" whites of bygone glamour days couldn't resist....thanks
posted by Chimp at 3:18 AM on August 5, 2005

*cries with joy*

Classical Hollywood is my favorite.

You rule, crunchland. [i seem to say that often]
posted by sciurus at 4:33 AM on August 5, 2005

Sweet, i love getting a chance to break out the plotter..... thanks.
posted by sourbrew at 5:46 AM on August 5, 2005

*cries with joy*

I second that. These are great! Joan Crawford was one helluva broad.
posted by Jikido at 7:04 AM on August 5, 2005

Does "coralize" mean "make the link not work"?
posted by goatdog at 8:19 AM on August 5, 2005

Good god almighty. Somebody create a cache. This must be preserved for the future. Totally awesome. Tears apply.
posted by Bdave at 8:23 AM on August 5, 2005

Coral is a distributed cache network. The theory is that instead of all of us hitting one server, and sending his bandwidth bill through the roof, we'll actually access a version of the site that's stored on various servers around the world. To coralize a site, you add a little snippet to the url.

http://www.doctormacro.com/Galleries.htm becomes >>
http://www.doctormacro.com.nyud.net:8090/Galleries.htm

I can't explain why you can't get to the coralized version of the site, but try the true url if you can't.
posted by crunchland at 8:30 AM on August 5, 2005

After the samugliestdog thread, I really needed this. Thank you so much, crunchland!
posted by of strange foe at 8:56 AM on August 5, 2005