The Post Production Problem Caused by Cornflakes and Plaster

Frank Capra used to just feed his editors cornflakes and plaster. But that was too expensive so he went down to foamite and sugar water. Foamite is what is or was used in fire extinguishers back then. So they moved from cornflake and plaster to fire extinguisher foam, sugar, water and soap. I mean, that sounds like what you would make custard pies from in movies. How are these materially similar? If you mixed this all up, I think they'd both kind of look a bit like sick, like vomit. Is this like fake vomit? Frank Capra is the exorcist. Oh, that's interesting. You are closer with vomit

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