| FRESH AIR FROLICS Film Tricks: Dancers in Clouds and Waves | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6766 |
| Catalog #: | 434518 | |
| Clip Number: | 434518-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 212 | |
| Timecode: | 01:08:16 - 01:10:24 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/STUNTS: Aerial (Tightrope, High Wire, etc) LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK SPECIAL EFFECTS: Camera Tricks | |
| Description: | FRESH AIR FROLICS Fun with film tricks. By use of camera techniques the ghostly figure of a woman walks the high wire and dances in the sea. United Kingdom Multiple images of identical tightrope walkers (in wild costume incl. skirt made of strips of fur) progressing across the rope to left, with a BG of big fluffy clouds floating. By use of a camera trick (optical printing?) an image of a woman walking a tightrope is duplicated so that several clones seem to walk across the high wire in succession. The images are superimposed over a background of clouds moving through the sky. "There's something about a cloud-hung sky that seems to take you right out of yourself." Another camera trick is used so that the woman seems to freeze on the rope then walk out as a ghostly figure leaving her body behind. This happens again and again. "Frozen" image of tightrope walker lifting leg high; cloud projection in BG. Tightrope walker divides into a series of clones who break away and walk on rope to rt. "Nymphs of the sky and the sea - ghost shadows of our dream-camera." L/S of waves crashing on the beach. Images of a woman dancing across the screen are superimposed. The woman dances in slow motion - all very dream like and wonderful. A row of identical ballet dancers dance across FG to rt., while BG is incoming waves. | |
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