Developing colour film, glass casserole dishes and step ladders are this year replaced by porridge, takeaway chicken and tablet computers, says the Sun.

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The task was to work out which colour-coded film containers held some bits of cheese, then prise the containers open and eat the contents.

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After the huge success of the band in the US, colour photography and film of them was more widely used for their 1965 and 1966 appearances there.

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He argued that film editing was a kind of pictographic syntax, that in acting physiognomy was more important than psychology, and that the sound and colour design in a film should be treated as fully expressive elements in their own right.

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This is used to generate a matte - which is transparent wherever the blue-colour features on the original film, and opaque elsewhere.

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As well as black-and-white photographs there are some snippets of film and rare colour transparencies, rescued from the sinking Endurance by Hurley, who plunged into the icy water to grab the plate glass negatives.

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Freeze-frame, slow motion, colour filters and smoke give the film a distinctly undigital tone, viscous and personal, that focuses attention on the excellent performances of Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk.

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Shot predominantly in black and white, with spot colour for a Jewish child's red coat the film's unique identifying mark it recalls the tradition of post-war Italian neo-realism and the even older photographs of Roman Vishniac of Jewish life in Poland before the Nazis.

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Top film maker Rituparno Ghosh described him as a man "who created fairy tales out of colour and lines".

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