disturbing. Lewis and his colleagues developed a relative of the stage blood currently used in films — a solution that was largely comprised of the sticky antidiarrheal medicine, Kaopectate. Innovation is not always pretty.)
Of course, occasionally a limitation can help creative folks create something that is slightly more artistic. In the early 1980s, the now world-famous independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch was just getting started. In that pre-digital video era, probably the single biggest obstacle to new filmmakers trying to make films was the high cost of the most basic raw material needed — 16mm or 35mm film stock. Still, Jarmusch had obvious talent and Swiss filmmaker Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) gifted him with some “short ends” — portions of left over reels from Wenders’ prior film. Jarmusch simply didn’t have enough film to make anything very lengthy