"What's all that stuff on the picture?" "That's GRAIN."

[ToEhrIsHuman]

'The Searchers' was shot in VistaVision, a large-format process. It is akin to 70mm, which uses a 65mm negative, but instead sends 35mm stock in horizontally thru the camera exposing twice the amount of film per frame than standard 35mm. The jist is if you have twice the image area for each frame than you do with normal 35mm, then obviously the grain will be half the size (and therefore much less noticeable.)