“Our look came from a combination of those, but more than anything, we decided it should have a Kodachrome look,” she explains. Hidden Figures, the true story of three African-American women who contributed their math expertise to the NASA space program, is set during the 1960s, but cinematographer Mandy Walker decided with director Ted Melfi that they “wanted it to feel period, but a modern version of that.” They researched documentaries (such as Eyes on the Prize, a series about the civil rights movement), period news footage, and the work of photographers Danny Lyon, Gordon Parks and Saul Leiter.
