Going into summer time 2023, it wasn’t clear if the hallowed custom of searching for refuge from warmth and tedium in a movie show was ever going to return to pre-pandemic ranges. If anybody might do it, absolutely it could be Tom Cruise, Christopher Nolan or Wes Anderson, or possibly Michael Keaton’s return to Batman would get individuals into confined rooms once more.

This week, Hollywood’s savior got here clad in Pantone 219 C. As of final week field workplace returns, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is now the very best grossing film of 2023, each within the US and globally ($1 billion+). It is also now the highest-grossing world movie in Warner Bros. historical past.

Among the many stars of the movie is the Barbie Video Lady, a doll with a inbuilt video digicam launched in 2010 that reassures motion pictures goers that she is certainly an actual product and nobody at Mattel is actually positive why.

The video digicam/doll has inbuilt 256 MB reminiscence that enables for about 25 min of video seize at 320×240 decision. A rear LCD display allowed customers to observe recording and to evaluate or delete recordsdata.

It turns our we already kinda knew her. Just a few months in the past DPReview’s Jason Hendardy gave the doll a whirl round Seattle to attempt to kind out why this doll exists and what the digicam’s like to make use of:

@dpreviewtv Jason Hendardy is again with one other Bizarre Digital camera, the Barbie Video Lady. To search out out simply how properly this digicam does capturing video he takes it round Seattle to present it a check. #dpreview #weirdcamera #videography #seattle #cameratiktok #digicam ♬ authentic sound – DPReview