Ms. Curran had to search out the chemical dyes and the coated paper; Kodak stopped manufacturing dye-transfer materials in 1994. The use of an obsolescent technique to memorialize “Vertigo” is fitting. It is set in a magically beautiful San Francisco that shimmers like a lost dream when we see it today on the screen — a feeling that the filmmaker anticipated. “The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast,” one character remarks early in the movie. Ms. Curran said that she considers the dye-transfer process to be the antithesis of the disposable profligacy of digital photography.

Source: New York Times December 13, 2018 11:01 UTC