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Paramount Introduces a New Set-Color for
Use with Agfa Infra-Red
The majority of recent technical improvements in the Motion Picture Industry have been brought about principally by an urgent need of innovations designed either to expedite production or to relieve some source of difficulty to the technicians. Mutual cooperation between manufacturer and consumer, which is so much in evidence now and which is the outgrowth of this need, has resulted in a sincere effort on the part of both not only to produce a new method or a new material but to intelligently apply it in practice.
Proof of this fact is seen at Paramount Studios where Mr. Ray Wilkinson, progressive Camera Department Chief, first conceived the idea of a more complete utilization of Agfa Ansco's new Type B Infra-Red Negative. Forearmed with a full knowledge of the effect of red filtering with this film type, he conducted a series of tests to determine a color which would not only render the most realistic night effects when photographed in the daytime, but at the same time would not hamper or be a detriment to the use of panchromatic films for day scenes. The resulting color evolved by him, and since adopted by the Studio, has been termed Infra Red Blue-Gray and is, as its name implies, a mixture of these two colors.
This new color technique in combination with Infra Red negatives was first tried out in a picture which was in production at the time, "Internes Can’t Take Money," photographed by Mr. Theodore Sparkuhl, A. S. C. Certain night scenes were shot in the daytime, after the entire Brownstone Street had been painted Infra Red Blue, and the results obtained were so convincingly real that the studio is now applying the color, with some variations, to the improved New York Street as well.
Production chiefs are also enthusiastic over the success of this venture as it enables them to schedule pictures with greater facility and eliminate to a large extent the attendant expense and worry of actual night shooting.
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