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PAINTING WITH LIGHT 95
first, personal lighting, in which everything is subordinated to making the star look beautiful; the second, impersonal lighting, where photographic art and story requirements are paramount.
Personal lighting is, fortunately, rapidly disappearing, for the socalled "star system" has been recognized as one of the great handicaps of the industry, as it retards the production of the best pictures, since story, treatment, direction, cast, and photography have all to be tailored to fit the personality of the star. So many inferior "star" pictures have been foisted upon the public that the injuries this system has worked upon the more obvious production details are well known; while the ill effects it has had upon cinematography may not
FIG 4
A scene from the light comedy "The Love Parade." Contrast treatment of this with
that of similar dramatic scene in Fig. 5.
be so glaringly apparent, the harm has been no less marked. In the first place, regardless of what the story may call for, the star must at all times be so photographed as to be the outstanding feature of the scene. This is a hardship alike upon the director and the cinematographer, for there are times when even an extra may be of more dramatic or artistic importance than this famous profile, or that famous pair of nether extremities. In addition, a star must always be so photographed as to be perpetually at his or her best. No matter whether the action be taking place in a dungeon or a ball-room, the star must be kept beautiful, with never a suspicion of a shadow upon the famous face or form, and, regardless of the setting, a beautifying halo of back-lighting following her around the set. That this is generally illogical and inartistic carries little weight with people whose inflated egos are backed up with contractural requirements for perpetual photographic partiality.
The second class — impersonal lighting — is, fortunately, becoming more and more the rule, for it allows the cinematographer to make the most of each scene. If it will aid the action to permit a