It was in the early-mid 1930s. Before she made Day of Victory, Triumph of the Will etc. she made Alpine melodramas such as The Blue Light. She was heavily into filters & special film stocks to achieve the other-worldly look in those films and she developed day-for-night out of that so that she and the other actors could climb safely but have the film look like night.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: 25 February 2008 21:43 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO: Lunch Break (QTVR Pano) > > When was that, just curious because I've seen some old B > oaters, maybe > from the mid 1930s where they were obviously using that technique but > not getting the balance exactly right. > > Bob W wrote: > > Interesting factoid: Leni Riefenstahl invented > day-for0night shooting. > > > > > >> An old movie trick I read about somewhere was to > underexpose using a > >> > > > > > >> polarizing filter and I think it was a red filter to simulate > >> moonlight > >> on a bright sunny day. (This was of course using B&W film). > >> > >> David Savage wrote: > >> > >>> G'day All, > >>> > >>> Hope this finds you warm & dry. (~390kb): > >>> > >>> <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/0038.mov> > >>> > >>> ;-) > >>> > >>> It's kinda funky what the polariser did. Almost looks like > >>> > >> night time to me. > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... > -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
