Picturegoer (1922)

Record Details:

Title:
Picturegoer
Date:
1922
Publisher:
London, Odhams Press
Volume:
Picturegoer (1922)
Leaf #:
000326
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Global Cinema and Fan Magazines
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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20 THE PICTUR&GOE-R JUNE 1922 Left : A corner of the huge wardrobe-room at Universal City, which can provide costumes of every period. Right > Priscilla Dean in a gown that grandma wore. Above . White, wearing an ultra-modern confection, offers a sharp contrast to Norma Talmadge (right) as the centre of an old-fashioned bridal group. The final dress was composed of costly silver cloth decorated with tiny carbon lights, which beneath the studio arc lamps blazed like great diamonds. Mae Murray and her producer bring an unusual combination of a woman's instinctive knowledge of how to dress and a technical understanding of light and colour on to the costuming of their film pictures. Robert Leonard, before he signals for the camera-men to commence turning, examines all his settings and his wife's costumes through a pair of specially contrived blue spectacles. These have the effect of reducing all colours to their correct values in black and white. By this means the producer can concentrate the eye of the audience on the most important things in a set by increasing their colour value. That is why, if you watch Mae Murray on the screen amidst the most ornate surroundings calculated to intrigue the eye, your attention is seldom diverted from the fascinating flitting figure moving against such backgrounds. Gloria Swanson has been clothed by