Techniques for Noise Reduction
and another video tutorial here.
Interviews with filmmakers
3d reenactments
Here are a few links discussing the production of 3d reenactments by Apple Daily.
http://kotaku.com/5580258/how-computer-animation-is-changing-the-news-right-now
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_appledaily/2/
nytimes article
http://online.wsj.com/video/apple-daily-animates-gordon-brown/33675D88-09F6-424E-93EE-699E52308ECF.html
School Portraits
This site, collects school portraits that were taken in front of the so called laser backdrops. Besides backdrops of books and simple one color backdrops, this was one of the most popular backdrops for school pictures in the 1980s.
image archives
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays
http://www.nationalgeographicstock.com/
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/advancedSearch.asp
An example portrait from this archive

http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home
http://www.life.com/
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/
http://peopleofindia1868-1875photos.blogspot.com/






