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    Some works go beyond Retraux: they not only evoke the production values of an earlier era but are also produced in an otherwise obsolete format from that era.

    Examples of Old Format, New Work include:

    Film

    • While not shot entirely in this manner, Woody Allen's Mockumentary Zelig makes extensive use of footage shot with vintage equipment on equally vintage film stock in order to provide convincingly "authentic"-looking film from the early decades of the 20th century.
    • The Hateful Eight, by Quentin Tarantino, was filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 process, which had not been used since 1966.
    • No, a 2012 film about the campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum, was shot in the video support U-matic 3:4, which was used for television at the end of the 1980s.

    Music

    • New vinyl EP and LP releases continue even in the 2010s.
    • Wasting Light, by Foo Fighters, was recorded using entirely analogue equipment until post-mastering.
    • Five Days E.P. by Coins uses "hardware synthesizers, samplers and drum machines exclusively, forgoing the use of soft synths" to invoke the sounds of Queen street around 1996.
    • There have new releases on cassette format, most notably the soundtrack to the film version of Guardians of the Galaxy.

    Tabletop Games

    • As part of a time travel gimmick, the Magic: The Gathering expansion Time Spiral featured several cards with old style frames and abilities that hadn't been used in a decade.
      • Old Fogey from joke set Unhinged is another example, featuring an old frame with old keywords.
      • While the Coldsnap expansion uses then modern card formats, it intentionally included old mechanics and cards to fit a gimmick of being based on an old design file just now found (officially confirmed as a joke after too many people took that statement seriously) meant to replace the much hated Homelands expansion in its block.

    Video Games

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