STUDIO SECRETS
DO YOU KNOW THESE? Light that adds delicate effects to close-ups of beauties of the screen includes invisible light? Modern make-up, and the delicacy of coloursensitivity of ‘“super-panchromatic” film lead cameramen to use a little ultra-violet light, which cannot be perceived by the eye. in their lighting. It affects the photographic film, hence offers certain refinements with certain make-up shades.
Dust on furniture isn’t dust, but a specially prepared powder which photographs as dust? Actual dust would not “pick up” in the lens. Likewise real rain is of no use in a rainstorm scene. It simply photographs as a fog. Artificial rain, with larger drops than Nature provides, is necessary to give the correct picture.
Old clothes are usually the product, not of age, but acid and sandpaper? At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios a “clothes aging department” is an important adjunct to the wardrobe. Experts fray, stain, and age costumes according to the age desired, from a slightly frayed cuff or collar to a set of complete rags.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 5
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169STUDIO SECRETS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 5
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