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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
NEW LIGHTING Ml
IME was when a man lit his cigar on the moving p i cture screen and no flame appeared; no glow was reflected from the match. Only the smoke of the lighted cigar showed in the picture. The same time saw flickering candles and apparently lighted lanterns casting no beams, and scarcely a sliver even of light into the darkness. Back lighting, side lighting, overhead lighting and foots — all were required, and none of them sufficed. To the critically inclined they were all makeshifts, and such they were. It's all the fault of the camera. This treach
erous instrument, so kind to some, so cruel to others, for a long time had the Indian sign on any light not cast by old Sol. The ingenuity of man minimized this shortcoming of the camera when the big Cooper-Hewitts came into existence. But a match was still a match to the camera, nothing more. This substitute for the sun has been a great boon to the movies, and has enabled New York and other aspiring movie centers to give sunlit California a run for her supremacy, but even the Cooper-Hewitt has its limitations. The Universal through its lighting experts has been working to overcome these drawbacks for several years and early this year it put into operation a new method for producing lighting effects which marks a tremendous step forward in
picture art. It is the talk of all t' Western studios as well as the a miration of all who see productio; made at Universal City.
To John M. Nickolaus, Superi tendent of Photography at the Ur versal Company's Pacific Coast st dios, belongs the credit for the ne discovery. And it is but one mo: honor, which the Universal hearti acknowledges when it calls him tl most prolific inventor in the movii picture world. The new lightir method is but the most recent of h invaluable discoveries extending ovi six or seven years. Superintendei Nickolaus entered into a series of e: periments with 0. Elmore, Chief Ele trician, which resulted in an entii-el new and advanced method of makin the light effects real in any pictuj taken by the ne