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For Mary Poppins, Disney used the sodium vapour process to get monochromatic light into a narrow channel for matte from a light splitting prism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_process

It's charming. I'm sure digital post offers many advantages. Van Dyke might be one of a few who has done both.



a Corridor Crew YouTube video describing/recreating that sodium vapour process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk


Kind of a tangent comment


Tangents are a sine of the times.


cos of this economy?


He was an animator and it's the interesting kind of factoids we read these comment sections for. We'll allow it.


You missed the pun




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