>>Can you help me find movies in which a still photograph "comes into focus" >>before our eyes? I'm thinking of scenes where something initially >>indecipherable gradually reveals additional visual information through being >>blown up, computer-enhanced, put through filters, etc. Examples are: >>Blow-Up, Call Northside 777, and Patriot Games. Even a photo being swished >>around in developing fluid, the image gradually emerging as we watch, would >>qualify. >> ======= In BLADE RUNNER, Decker blows up a photo by computer to discover clues to the replicants' whereabouts. THE USUAL SUSPECTS ends with cop Chaz Palminteri focusing hsi eyes on various photos and other items pinned to the wall of an interrogation room, with the realization for him and for us that the story we have just heard was concocted from these elements. In 12 MONKEYS the psychiatrist finally focuses on a World War I photo and realizes that the Bruce Willis character is in it. At the end of THE SHINING, the camera moves in on an old photo on the wall to reveal Jack Nicholson's character in it. BACK TO THE FUTURE has a photo in which people disappear because past events prevented them from ever being born. I'm not certain about these but it seems logical for them to have scenes of photos in developing fluid: REAR WINDOW and PEEPING TOM. --Richard Leskosky Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois 2117 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]