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Photography
Accomplished SHILLER
focusing the camera and leaving it with" wide open lens to absorb the impression for several hours, a method which, of course, cannot be used with the restless and everrevolving film of the motion picture camera.
Now, however, when the lovers meet in a woodland glade by the light of the moon, it is no longer necessary for the harassed director to fake this luminary by pointing his camera at the setting sun and then pasting a small disk of untransparent paper over the negative. And, what is more, he need not wait his picture to suit the erratic whims of Diana. The effect of natural moonlight, shading from the faint glow of the sickle moon to the white glare of the full orb, can all be obtained on a pitch-dark night by a system of portable arc lamps that light up the scenes with a strong violet flame of varying degrees of intensity.
This light produces clear-cut ground shadows, sharply defined silhouettes and mass shadings identical with actual moolight and much better than the effect of the real thing
in a photograph. For pictures
taken by moonlight have a
muddy, chilly tone more like the
gray light of a sunless day than the
silvery radiance of a moonlight night.
Another method of obtaining the atmosphere of moonlight or starlight is to take the picture at dusk, slightly underexposed, but this is not so good for the story uses of a photoplay, as it shows everything, the commonplace, the ugly, the irrelevant and inartistic, instead of picking out the salient details. Since the chief beauty of night scenes is the sense of mystery _ and romance they can convey, the director prefers to furnish his own moonlight, which will shine only on what he wishes it to shine.
In interior night scenes the up-todate director employs cleverly arranged arc lights with shields which prevent diffusion of the rays and enable then • (Continued on page 111)
In interior night scenes the up-to-date director employs cleverly arranged arc lights with shields which prevent diffusion of the rays and enable them to be concentrated on single obj ects, leaving the surroundings in darkness