The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #46 – Images Can Be Enhanced and Enhanced Into Perfect Quality

One of the biggest myths about police and forensic experts in movies is their ability to enhance images from blurry pictures. But in real life, there’s just no way to clean up a low-resolution image that much.

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The More You Know

  • Tom Hanks helped pay for ‘Forrest Gump’
  • Executive producer of Toy Story and Chief Pixar shareholder Steve Jobs picked Bob Dylan as his first choice to write and perform the soundtrack to the film over Randy Newman.
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  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
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