overnight notes – Page 35

What Fujifilm knows. Two interesting patents about color print/ display materials. Also contain light sources used during testing of the new material.

People. Patents. Products. Find the people behind the knowledge and you will learn what the product solves. Meindert Slagt has few patents. This one lists several people with multiple patents. Jun Matsumoto came about in reviewing other patents of the holders. He is a key researcher for Fujifilm. Finding the addresses of each of these researchers locates their research building.

The need to provide a different print material, one designed to solve the problems of prior silver/color printing in being used in a digital /scan printing system.

A: “light-sensitive material after digital exposure.”
B: “it is obvious, that in digital exposures other problems have to be solved to obtain a very good color photograph.”
C: “a high-quality image with higher desnity is requested for the transmission-type light-sensitive material.”
D: “if the difference in density is too small, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory image quality in the points such as black depth…” difference too higher, problems such as delay of development in lower layer(s)…
E: a snippet describing a single layer (the Fifth) of the display material. This is the Red-Sensitive layer. Notice that there are 5 Cyan couplers indicate, and eleven “color-image stabilizers.” Describing all the chemistry would take months.

>> https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060068338A1/en ” as to technique to prepare a color print, printings by both conventional surface exposure and scanning exposure have been practiced, and color print materials for each exclusive use have been put to practical use. Therefore, at the site of color print preparation, two kinds of color print materials are necessary. In the past there has been a vast amount of developments in order to improve the response to light of silver halide systems in order to obtain the best results upon analogue/surface exposure. ” Inventor Meindert Slagt Akira Kase Peter Franciscus Van Asten Yasuo Iwasa

>> https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040157175A1/en “As a method to expose a light-sensitive material according to digitized image information, an image-forming method in which scanning exposure is carried out using a light source of high light intensity such as a laser or LED, has been rapidly gaining popularity. Resulting from the recent popularization of laser printers and digital prints, the above-said image-forming method has been common. Accordingly, there has been a continual need for a light-sensitive material having characteristics suitable for laser exposure and digital exposure. As print for a display advertisement, higher image density is requested, because a vivid image must be provided from its purpose of use.” Jun Matsumoto Shinichi Nakahira Hidekazu Sakai

—- plus, updated posts: this on portra

A western film set in Montana, filmed in New Zealand. A re-westernized examination, so the meta goes, about machismo — destructive mannerisms of maleness.

The movie unrolls like a silent era film. Every plot point made in pantomime deliberateness. So much so, you know by the middle of the movie what the ending will be. Unless, as my gang said, you sit in the back of the bus.

Wyoming in New Zealand. Coming to terms with changes of an age. A movie I’d hoped to rewatch. Instead, it is a movie I watched, will consider, probably not watch again. I’ve too many other films, books, tasks to do. I don’t think I will get more from another watching than from some other film a first time.

The movie in one scene: the rabbit in the pile of timbers. By now the masculine and the feminine are coming together to stick a post into the hole. A rabbit runs under a pile of timbers. A game begins: toss timbers aside until the rabbit runs.

He can’t. He is injured. The female man lifts the rabbit to comfort it — seeing it is injured, snaps its neck.

The clear morality point: men kill the weak . These two men are gay. One clearly, the other remaining hidden, like a dog in the distant hill— only some can see.

Not an easy point for the larger audience: the dangerous persons in this film are gay. perhaps that is just the contrarian me. The widower’s son is the killer.

Toxic masculinity – come upance, originally told in 1967 by Thomas Savage. The movie is composed with simplified symbolism. References to the dead, the posers, the educated seer. It is of its time, the fading sixties, and the looking back to a baby-boomer whistle vision of the 20s.

Those who liked the film:

>> On April 6, 2023, it ranked number 15 on The Hollywood Reporter‘s list of the “50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far),” calling it a “brilliantly uncomfortable chamber piece about corrosive masculinity fed by sexual repression” and a “psychodrama whose epic scope is echoed in its majestic landscapes.”

>>August 24, 2023, it ranked number 8 on Collider‘s list of “The 20 Best Drama Movies of the 2020s So Far,” saying that Campion “unravels an understated love story in the heart of the American west, and shows how forcing someone to conform can lead to tragic circumstances.”

>> The March 2022 issue of New York magazine included the film as one of “The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars”.