I was rewatching "Where Eagles Dare" (I am a trashy person and love old action and spy movies) and noticed interesting visual artifacts that look like a poor made "toxic HDR" from the early 00s (halos).
This was shot in 60s on film and it looks like some analog dodge+burn for local tone mapping, or for turning daytime shots into "night" (interestingly also at the end of the movie, which is supposed to be during day - shot reuse?), but really poorly made. Interesting :)
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@BartWronski I think it’s wide-radius unsharp masking, which I understand was somewhat common as a kind of automatic dodge and burn in this era.
@vruba I definitely considered it, but what puzzled me is a) the extreme radius b) why snow is rendered so grey here. And it's only in this scene, so maybe you are right and they went so far because the aerial camera was so soft?