A close encounter with Douglas Trumbull

Director and legendary special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull lives in Western Massachusetts. Monday on WBUR he spoke with Tom Ashbrook about the future of cinema.

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Trumbull talks about 3-D movies, and he brings up the very important point that 3-D is very DIM in movie theaters, and they need to be much brighter. I’d go further and say that in general movies are, like today’s comic books, much too dark and colorless.

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