Source Metadata

Name

pictureQualities

Group Label

Picture Qualities

Schema

rulib

Definition

The Picture Qualities element describes the specific characteristics of the picture, including the process used to create those characteristics. Picture Qualities is a parent element for eight subelements. Not all subelements are used for all source types. Subelements are:
Aspect ratio (with "type" attribute) [film; videotape; videodisc]
Color [film; videotape; videodisc]
Color process [film]
Signal format [videotape; videodisc]
Resolution [videotape; videodisc]
Analog Video Data Encoding [videodisc]
Structure [videotape; videodisc]
Frame rate [videotape; videodisc]

Repeatable

N

Name

pictureQualitiesAspectRatioValue

Label

Picture Qualities - Aspect Ratio

Schema

rulib

Definition

For a single frame of a moving image, the proportional relationship between image width and height.

Controlled Vocabulary

4:3; 4:3 (16:9 letterbox); 4:3 (16:9 anamorphic); 16:9; 5.5:3; 7:3 (Panavision or Conemascope); 2.35:1; 1.85:1 [source: rulib]

Repeatable

Y

Name

pictureQualitiesAspectRatioType

Label

Picture Qualities - Aspect Ratio Type

Schema

rulib

Definition

Indicates whether the aspect ratio pertains to the image as it was shot (captured), or the image as it was intended to be viewed (for example, when projected).

Controlled Vocabulary

capture; presentation [source: rulib]

Repeatable

Y

Name

pictureQualitiesColor

Label

Picture Qualities - Color

Schema

rulib

Definition

The color characteristics of the resource. For specific color processes used for motion picture film (Kodacolor, Technicolor, etc.), use the "colorProcess" element.

Controlled Vocabulary

Film. black and white; black and white and color; black and white (tinted); black and white (tinted and toned); black and white (toned); black and white with color sequences; blue; color; color with black and white sequences; 2-color; 2-color IB; 3-color; 3-color IB; cyan; hand-colored; IB color; EC (color); EC (color), low-fade; green; lenticular color; magenta; red; sepia; stencil-colored; yellow; Other; not applicable [source: UCLA 26.1.4]
Photographic. Air brushed; Black and white; Black and white (tinted); Blue; Colored; Hand colored; Other; Sepia tone [source: rulib]
Videotape; Videodisc. black and white; color; black and white and color [source: rulib]

Repeatable

N

Name

pictureQualitiesColorProcess

Label

Picture Qualities - Color Process

Schema

rulib

Definition

The specific color process used in the making of a motion picture film.

Controlled Vocabulary

Film. Americolor; Brewster Color; Cinecolor; Cinemacolor; Cinecolorgraph; Color Film Process; Coloratura; Colorgraph; Colorvision; Cosmocolor; Douglass Color; Dunning Color; Eastman Color; Eastman Low-Fade (l.p.p.); Eastman Low-Fade (s.p.); Eastman Multilayer Stripping Film; Ektachrome; Ferrania Color; Fox Nature Color; Fujicolor; Fullcolor; Gaspar Color; Gevacolor; Gilmore color; Harriscolor; Keller-Dorian Color; Kelley Color; Kesda Color; Kinemacolor; Kislyn Color; Kodachrome [early 2-color process]; Kodacolor; Kodachrome [3-color process]; Magnachrome; Magnacolor; Morgana; Multicolor; Opticolor; Panacolor; Panchromotion; Photocolor; Polacolor; Polychromide; Prizma Color; Rotocolor; Sennett Color; Supercinecolor; Technicolor [2-color additive process]; Technicolor [2-color subtractive process]; Technicolor [2-color IB process]; Technicolor [3-color IB process]; Telco Color; Thomascolor; 3M Color; Trucolor [2-color process]; Trucolor [3-color process, DuPont and Eastman]; Vitacolor; Warner-Powrie [source: UCLA]
Photographic. n/a; free-text.

Repeatable

Y