California art initiative examines how science and art collide
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Finally tonight, a story from the PBS News Student Reporting Labs, our journalism training program for high school students. |
| 0:07.5 | As part of our canvas coverage, we featured some of the work from the Southern California PST Art Initiative that examines how science and art collide. |
| 0:16.0 | Student reporter Ebony Shelley has now the story of two exhibitions at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |
| 0:23.0 | that are part of PST and explore the relationship between movies and technology. |
| 0:29.0 | I often say that color is interesting because if it's done right, you don't notice it. You are |
| 0:35.1 | perceiving it and it's impacting you. It's not being drawn attention to. |
| 0:39.3 | And so one of the things that we really hope with the exhibition is that it gives people a new |
| 0:44.3 | understanding of what they're seeing on screen. |
| 0:47.3 | The Academy Museum in Los Angeles, California is exploring the intersectionality of movies and technology as part of the PSTR initiative |
| 0:57.0 | with two exhibitions. Color in Motion shows the history and subtlety of a color palette. |
| 1:02.0 | You know, we wanted to show people the intention behind color, how it really is an art form in itself, |
| 1:09.0 | and one of the kind of hidden arts of cinema. |
| 1:11.0 | So the gallery in which we show all the costumes and props, we're showing Technicolor |
| 1:15.8 | to present because we're showing how color in front of the camera really impacted people's |
| 1:19.9 | processes. |
| 1:21.0 | We have Natalie Calmus, who's the color director, and she's really influencing the color palette |
| 1:26.3 | of a movie. |
| 1:27.2 | And so we see her name on a lot of technicolor films, |
| 1:31.3 | so you'll see her doing Blizzard of Oz or movies, |
| 1:34.9 | really notable technical colors from that era. |
| 1:37.1 | She's the one who's responsible for setting those pallets. |
| 1:39.4 | You see a lot of super saturated, really vivid color films, |
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