heres the right timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKBG1sqdyIU&t=768s

That's an interesting idea. I wonder how well the film iris/barcodes could be used to figure out which movies make the best 'palette' to recreate a given scene.

I spent some time earlier this year on creating mosaics of movie posters using other posters as tiles: https://joshmosier.com/posts/movie-posters/full-res.jpg (warning: 20mb file) Using this on each frame of a scene gave some good results with a fine enough grid even with no repeating tiles: https://youtu.be/GVHPi-FrDY4