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Shooting day for night

posted 16 years ago by doorkeeper
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Every time I see this movie I cringe at a 'night' scene because you can clearly see that they were shot during full daylight with a dark lens - I guess at the time they thought this was acceptable?

[–] TruPretender 16 years ago

Um...Day for Night was a standard practice for MANY films in the 19702. Jaws did it. James Bond films did it. The BEST films did it. Was acceptable indeed.

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[–] kohntarkosz 16 years ago

Well, the other option is to actually shoot at night, which back then, would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

[–] Wesker26 16 years ago

Never had a problem with day for night, Hammer films did it all the time aswell.

[–] scotbpens 16 years ago

Day-for-night shooting was common in movies until fairly recently, even though it's always painfully fake looking. The daytime shadows always give it away.

It's just something that audiences accepted, like "exterior" scenes that are obviously shot on soundstage sets, or teenage characters being played by 30-year-old actors.

[–] Studman_Productions 16 years ago

good point