The desire to create a human-readable guide to the faithful reproduction of Steven Soderberg’s Logan Lucky in particular (and motion picture films in general) by some future viewer motivated us to append a “Rosetta Stone,” in the form of a digital leader, to all copies of the movie.

We wanted to put an indelible and unambiguous fingerprint on the digital archive that would guide this hypothetical user to a full understanding of the filmmaker’s intentions.

Larry Blake and I have been considering this since we first met in 2001.

At that time, Larry was advocating his “Strawman” argument for migrating feature sound delivery to an all-digital standard.  We wanted to have a single repository for all the technical data (that was not yet called metadata) that would be neccessary to interpret and properl;y use the digital sound files.  At that time we wanted to photograph this data into the negative.

“Logan Lucky” afforded the opportunity to finally do this, for both picture and sound. The 16 ensuing years did nothing to reduce the need for such repository, although it is no longer recorded to film: indeed the urgency has increased as the complexity of what a motion picture can be has evolved.  The analogy of a Rosetta Stone
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