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Many movie enthusiasts love the look of the old silent movies--the subtitles, the grainy and jumpy black-and- white film, the locked-down camera, and the over- dramatization. These features account for the charm, they say; to others, they make the film difficult to watch. Recently an effects artist decided to eliminate those obstacles in the classic 1919 horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by remixing the movie, using the original sets as digital backgrounds. As a result, the project set a milestone, marking the first time that original sets from a silent-era film were used as backdrops that integrated contemporary actors.The director contemporized the original story and film by adding new dialog and using a new technique in on-set compositing whereby the actors were shot completely on greenscreen and composited into the originals sets of the original film.