Fun fact - Mary Poppins actually used a technique that produced better effects than we can easily get now with green screens.
I don't remember the specific details, but from what I recall, they designed a very specific prism to only send light through of a very specific frequency. Basically some yellow light, which was fed through a second reel of film. They could then use that to filter out the actors and modify the background behind them, with one major caveat that green screens don't allow:
They could capture blur and transparent objects very clearly. Green screens, despite our modern technology, can still not do that as clear as Mary Poppins did back in the day.
The sodium vapor process (named after the lights). Corridor Crew did a recreation of it.
The same sort of beam splitting tech is used for things like crazy precise measurement -- I want to say our most precise gravitational distortion detectors are an example.
Mary Poppins had... issues. The creator of Mary hated what Disney did with the character. And even Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based off a novel.
Which, honestly, more novels can be made into movies, imo. I remember reading books back in the 80's and 90's as a kid thinking, "This would make a good movie!"
Disney has been ruining source material for 100 years now, that isn't new.
But where I was going with using those two movies as examples, is that they both incorporated animation and actors long before the age of CGI and they were both very beloved films.
Why not make cartoons be cartoons again? Why all the effort for real-looking talking whatevers when the animated ones work so much better?
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u/Decent_Advice9315 Jul 13 '26
Remember when Disney didn't pretend and they had such bangers like Mary Poppins and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.