About that "leaked" Oscar dance-number footage

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February 25, 2011 at 7:00PM

James Franco "leaked" this preview of the Oscars dance number on his Twitter feed:

If they wanted to make it look like someone shot this with an iPhone and sent it to YouTube IN SECRET! they couldn't have done a worse job. It's been run through some filters to desaturate it and make it look like an old home movie; at :03 it looks like scratchy film leader, which are not found on cameras that do not actually use film; same effect at :13 except it's transparent. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make this look "authentic."

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