Cinematographic annual : 1930 (1930)

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108 CINEMATOGRAPHIC ANNUAL following the actors around, over, and through the sets. All of this has resulted in a tremendous multiplication of the number of lighting units employed: but if the cinematographer can so train his perceptions that, like the great musicians who are so music-conscious that they are able to "hear" music as they read it — even in the complicated score of the symphony orchestra — the cinematographer can become "light-conscious", and visualize the effect of the light before him upon the sensitive film he is about to expose, then he can truly say that he is a master of the new and difficult art of cinematographic lighting. Fig. 24 An unusual example of lighting for an air raid exterior night scene from "Hell's Angels."