Two of this year’s top contenders for the Academy Awards were filmed using a technology from the 1950s: VistaVision. Filmmakers are reviving this visually stunning yet finicky film format at a time when movie theaters are struggling to get audiences back into theaters. Today on The Sunday Story, NPR’s culture correspondent Mandalit Del Barco tells the story of the changing movie industry through the lens of VistaVision technology.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
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Director Yorgos Lanthimos (second from left), director of photography Robbie Ryan and actor Emma Stone on the set of Bugonia. The film was shot with VistaVision cameras, which were popular in the 1950s and are being used in new films like Bugonia and One Battle After Another. Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features hide caption
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Two of this year's top contenders for the Academy Awards were filmed using a technology from the 1950s: VistaVision. Filmmakers are reviving this visually stunning yet finicky film format at a time when movie theaters are struggling to get audiences back into theaters.
Today on The Sunday Story, NPR's culture correspondent Mandalit Del Barco tells the story of the changing movie industry through the lens of VistaVision technology.
This episode was produced by Rhaina Cohen and edited by Jenny Schmidt with help from Matteen Mokalla. It was fact-checked by Will Chase and the engineer was Jimmy Keeley.
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