Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Strobing Effects on Incredibles 2

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Posted by Jeff Fruchey (Member # 10302) on 06-17-2018, 12:19 AM:

Has anyone received the email from Disney regarding posting a notice about “Incredibles 2” containing a sequence of flashing lights which may affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photosensitivities?

-Jeff

Posted by Frank Cox (Member # 6258) on 06-17-2018, 12:36 AM:

http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f5/t003115.html

Posted by Jeff Fruchey (Member # 10302) on 06-17-2018, 12:48 AM:

Sorry, did not realize you had already posted this.

-Jeff

Posted by Jim Cassedy (Member # 4115) on 06-17-2018, 10:32 AM:

Jeez, Frank, I wish I HAD seen that e-mail earlier in the day yesterday,but
I had left my house & The City early in the morning on a personal errand.

> I was about 40miles outside of San Francisco, when I got a phone call.
The message I got from the theater employee on the other end was that:
"There are strobe lights going off in 'The Incredibles' auditorium and
people are complaining, and they needed me at the theater to do something".

Now, I must point out that this message was relayed to me through two people,
one of whom does not know English well, and the other who knows NOTHING
(and I mean Z-E-R-O ! !) about technology of ANY sort, and especially about
anything that goes on at a theater.

To further "muddy the waters" there had been a problem Thursday morning,
in that auditorium, before showtime, with the fire alarm system going off,
which, of course, activates strobe lights.

So, I made the 45min trip back to San Francisco, without stopping for lunch, and
got to the theater and then I found out all it was was this effing letter from Disney.

Posted by Lyle Romer (Member # 1266) on 06-17-2018, 11:13 AM:

Wouldn't lightning in movies cause reactions from photosensitive people?

I remember on 35mm, flashes of lightning would many times have interspersed clear frames.

Posted by Marcel Birgelen (Member # 6801) on 06-17-2018, 04:17 PM:

I think it's more productive if we all concentrate on the topic Frank posted above.