How Green Screen Worked Before Computers
Published February 4, 2015
This video has 3.31M views and 95.7K likes, ranking #1,526,363 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.
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3,314,946
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95,736
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1,283
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http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - For those of us who grew up in the age of CGI, green screen is just "a thing that computers do". But how did effects like this work before the age of pixels? With the help of some suitably shiny graphics, here's a quick summary. Thank you to Matt Gray - http://mattg.…
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- February 4, 2015
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