![]() There are dozens of scenes where Indy’s eyes emerge from the shadows, or behind screens. Or who could forget the cobra staring match? There’s the great zoom out in the marketplace when Indy is faced with hundreds of baskets, but the scene starts close in on his eyes. One thing you notice a lot more in watching it on a big screen are the focus on eyes. My highlights of the film’s photography are below. ![]() Not surprisingly, Raiders of the Lost Ark was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Cinematography, but it is loved and remembered for its roguish hero Indy and superlative action scenes. ![]() Raiders was shot with Panavision on 35mm Eastman 100T 5247 According to IMDB he was famous for never using a light meter on Raiders! The production design team, Leslie Dilley, Michael Ford and Norman Reynolds all worked previously on Star Wars. The Director of Photography was Douglas Slocombe, who did all three Indy flicks, plus other classics like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Italian Job (the original and best). The details come out, the colours are beautiful and it is truly a radiant experience. Seeing it in a cinema is like watching it for the first time. Although I’ve seen Raiders too many times to count, I smiled with delight watching it again. And as a photographer and a lover of film, I know how different movies can be when you see them projected versus on the television. Not only that, in an IMAX!Īs a child of the mid-80s, I never got the chance to see the original Indiana Jones in a cinema. I recently had the good fortune to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark on the big screen.
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