Alien (USA 1979, Ridley Scott).

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Photographs of the Eastman Color Print Films from 1979 by Joëlle Kost, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.

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Turnock, Julie A. (2015): Plastic Reality. Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics. New York: Columbia University Press, on pp. 220–221. View Quote

Vanlint, Derek (1979): Alien and its photographic Challenges. In: American Cinematographer, 60,8, pp. 768–771, p. 806 and pp. 812–813, on pp. 768–769 View Quote and on p. 806 and on p. 812. View Quote

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