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Old styles: 1920s rubber hose post

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Old styles: 1920s rubber hose post

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- [Instructor] When we look at these 1920s cartoons today, they're often in really bad condition. The film is scratched, it wobbles, flickers. But you have to remember that this is the result of decades of wear and tear. It's not what they looked like when they were screened first. The first time they were screened, they looked really nice. They were clean prints. They're not clean anymore. By adding defects like scratches and flickers, we can artificially age our animation to make it look as though it was created in the '20s or '30s. But again, if somebody wants to make a movie that looks more authentic or original, then you wouldn't put these effects on. You only apply these effects if you want to make it look like it's 90 years old. Were I to animate one of these for, say, a movie that was being shot in the 1920s, that was set in the 1920s, and they wanted an original cartoon that the lead character was seeing, I wouldn't put the scratches on it. I would only do that if it was…

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