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Don't worry! Arline Judge, pictured on the wing of this plane, is actually only three feet above a platform
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When you see a thrilling picture of actors fighting on the wing of a flying plane, the ship is on a platform
The Invisible Man, which have thrilled and amused millions, could never have been filmed without the witchcraft of the trick photographers.
One of America's ace trick photographers agreed to break an old taboo and disclose exactly how movie magic operates. In this article, he takes you behind the scenes in the studios and tells you just what is done.
The Invisible Man was based upon trick photography and dealt with the adventures of a young scientist whose body had become completely invisible. This novel and ingenious idea was conveyed in several ways, such as showing an apparently empty suit of clothes walking about a room, books being lifted and carried by an invisible agency, footprints appearing in fresh snow, step by step, and so on.
JUNE, 1934
Ronald Colman meets Ronald Colman on a flight of stairs. Realistic as it is, the picture was photographed by double exposures, using a special projecting screen
My informant and I went to see the picture, and as we walked out of the theatre we heard people in the lobby wondering how it had been made. The stunt cameraman chuckled.
"That sequence in which the man took off his clothes — and there was nobody inside 'em had them guessing," he laughed. "So did that bit where the empty pants ran down the road after the old lady, and the crowd chasing the vacant shirt around the room."
How was it done?
"Well, I didn't take the picture, but I can tell you this much," the camera expert explained. "It was made through the use of double exposures. There are several minor variations of this method, and I've used them all."
Then he explained one of the commonest means of getting the desired effect when an object is to be introduced into a scene in such a way that it covers only certain portions of the background.
"Let's consider the bit about the trousers chasing the lady," he said.
"As I analyze it, they first made the picture of the old woman screaming in terror as she fled along the lonely road. They developed the negative and printed it just like an ordinary movie film, except that the print was made in tones of orange instead of the usual gradations of black and grey.
"Then this orange film was put into a movie camera, between the lens and a new, unexposed negative, with which it was in contact. The camera was set up in a studio, the floor of which was painted a flat black, and a dead black backdrop was used.
"The actor, wearing only a pair of trousers, and with all the exposed portions of his body covered with a dull black make-up, ran toward the camera, just as the woman did.
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