1970s film look
The prompt “A 1970s film-look shot of a car driving along a coastal road, visible grain and lens halation”
Tests whether the model can hit a specific photographic era rather than defaulting to clean digital.
- Models tested
- 16
- Top score
- 5.00 6 models tied
- Average
- 4.52
- Lowest
- 3.25 PixVerse v5.5
Every model, same prompt
The clips on screen play together from the first frame, muted. Open one for sound, controls and our notes.
Kling 4.0
Kuaishou1970s car on a coastal road with film grain and strong halation and flare.
FLUX 3
Black Forest LabsConvincing 1970s look, with grain, halation and warm period colour on a vintage coupe along a coastal road.
Runway Gen-4.5
RunwayFilm grain look, vintage grading and lens flares hold up consistently (contrast with Kling 3.0 Turbo, which failed this same prompt).
MiniMax H3
MiniMaxGenuine period grain, warm color timing and lens halation, not clean digital.
Google Veo 3.1
GoogleGenuine period look: grain, warm color grading, halation around the sun.
OpenAI Sora 2
OpenAIGenuine grain and lens halation, not a generic clean render.
Google Gemini Omni
Google
Vivix W1
VivixConvincing 1970s look with grain, halation and period colour on a coastal road. Cuts from a front view to a rear tracking shot at about 4.3 seconds.
Wan 3.0
AlibabaWarm 1970s grade and period car on a coastal road with halation near the horizon; the grain is light.
Kling 3.0
KuaishouCorrect period grading and halation, but grain is milder than authentic 1970s film stock.
Kling 3.0 Turbo
KuaishouWarm color grading and period car/setting read as intended, but the image itself is clean digital capture with no real film grain or lens halation. Verified directly against an extracted frame.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDanceFAILURE MODE: defaults to a clean modern digital look, same as Seedance 2.0 on this prompt. No period-accurate grain or halation.
Seedance 2.0
ByteDanceFAILURE MODE: defaults to a clean modern digital look. No period-accurate grain or lens halation, despite an otherwise stable, well-rendered shot.
Grok Video
xAIFAILURE MODE: defaults to clean modern digital look, the requested 1970s grain/halation barely appears.
MiniMax Hailuo 02
MiniMaxWarm color grading and lens halation land, but the image stays sharp/clean digital rather than true grainy period film.
PixVerse v5.5
PixVerseThe car's orientation flips mid-shot from driving away (rear view) to oncoming (front view, headlights visible) with no cut -- verified via frame extraction comparing an early and mid-clip frame: confirmed, a severe continuity/physics break.
Ranked by our blind vision-model judge; models with the same score share a position. Read how we test.