The film's color grading physically changes to match the real-life historical film processing technology of that exact decade.

Film/Series: The Aviator

Category: Trivia Fact

Timestamp: 00:45:10

Martin Scorsese used complex digital color manipulation to reflect the progression of cinema history within the movie itself. The first act of the film is tinted using a digital recreation of the two-strip Cinecolor process, making the grass look strangely blue-green and skin tones look highly contrasted. As Howard Hughes progresses into the 1940s, the color palette shifts into the vibrant, highly saturated three-strip Technicolor look, flawlessly mirroring the technological evolution of Hollywood.

The film's color grading physically changes to match the real-life historical film processing technology of that exact decade. in The Aviator

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