🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Every Charlton Heston movie ever made is basically him running around trying to figure out what the hell is going on and then at the end him screaming at the reveal.

Carpe Diem... do they want you to make the most our of your day, or do they want you to wear a diadem made out of fish... we may never know.

I found my answer, see this post for details:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/107165392901144829

After some research I found a few names used for this in the industry. It is called an "Eye bar", a "Shatner light" or, "Kirk light". Apparently It originated in classic black and white films. I cant verify this but it seems it was either first done or made popular by the 1931 Dracula film (image attached) which at least 3 black and white remakes all used the same Eye bar lighting. It then started to be used in other Genres and films including Star Trek the original series where it was used extensively for Kirk (images attached), thus the name Kirk/Shatner light. It was also used in the Harry Potter movies at least once.

As mentioned in the OP it was so common it was used as a running joke in the Addam's Family films anytime Morticia was in a shot (see the original post for an example).

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@ringo Here it is being used in harry potter apparently...

@ringo Another

@ringo Another example

@ringo A non-mocking example from classic film

@ringo is that term specific to lighting across the eyes? I know its not common in modern films but the effect I'm talking about was extremely common in films pre-1980. It was done, for example, in soylent green when one of the "furniture" was being sexual suggestive.

IIRC traditionally in films the lighting effect was done by reflecting the light off a mirror. While I saw it in several 70's film it seems to be more common in older black and white films and often very exagerated.

Anyone know the name of the lighting technique used quite often in classic films, particularly noir filrms, where they would shine a beam of light across an actors eyes?

They did it as a running joke in the Addams family films where anytime Morticia's face is shown it is always in this noir style. for the life of me I cant find a proper name for it.

Side note there are two very similarly related lighting terms. First is "catch light" where the reflection of lights and objects in a persons eyes are noticeable and pronounced. The other is Chiaroscuro which is any sort of lighting where the dynamic range is cranked up so there is high contrast between light and dark in an image.

Attached is an example.

#movie #movies #film #photography #lighting #noir #classicfilms

Interesting fact of the day. The very first internet connection consisting of 3 interconnected nodes was in fact WiFi... well, not wifi but radio/wireless. It was implemented as a mobile ad-hoc access point equipped in a van with the first 3-way network occurring in 1977.

#history #technology #STEM #Science @Science

@swiley

Liberal yes, communist no. The communist party listed him as effectively a friend of the party but asimov himself never really described himself as communist per se burt rather as a supporter of the democrat party and as a a liberal.

That said he was investigated under suspicion of being a communist and soviet spy. But back then everyone was being accused.

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@straw I'll add it to the list when i have time to binge watch.

@swiley

He wasnt, he was an atheist and vocal about it.

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What pre-1980 movie should I watch next?

#movie #movies #film

@hans_w No but it is never a bad time to reread asimov books!

That awkward moment when humans first realized that the god and angels they have been worshiping for almost 2000 years are actually aliens from outer space. #mormon