Who did Hyde's makeup?
Okay, monster makeup scholars, who created Frederick March's excellent Mr. Hyde makeup? Frank Dietz www.sketchythings.com
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In Doug Bradley's book Sacred Monsters, there's a story that Wally was driving March to location in full makeup and pulled in to a gas station to check his route with an attendant. The expected...
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Give credit where credit is due. The Red filter effect was first used by cameraman Karl Struss in BEN HUR (1924).
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Karl Struss also shot the Mamoulian JEKYLL & HYDE. But as said above, the same effect was done on stage in Richard Mansfield's 1880s stage production of the Stevenson story. And probably in other...
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And much later the red/green effect was brillantly used by Mario Bava in Riccardo Freda's "I vampiri" and his own "La maschera del demonio"...
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TCM ran a bunch of aviation films this past Tuesday, one of them being a murder mystery, FUGITIVE IN THE SKY (Warner Bros. 1936). In the course of it.... SPOILER ALERT ....a woman is wearing colored...
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On a side note, is the red/green lighting effect used in WEREWOLF OF LONDON, for the transformation in the boarding house where the camera pans up and down Hull and the V-shaped hairline appears?
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Yup that was the same effect.I think they used it also on the Lepers in The King of Kings,an early silent movie.
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Which wouldn't have been possible if not for panchromatic stock (early stock was orthochromatic and sensitive to blue-green light only).
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SHE DEVIL (1857) based on Stanley Weinbaum's "The Adaptive Ultimate" uses the red/green trick to show the She Devil's hair changing from blonde to black.
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In case no one's mentioned it, Bob Burns also used that trick when he changed himself into Hydeon live TV on live TV. I might add, as a footnote, that "The Adaptive Ultimate" was also dramatized on...
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"SHE DEVIL (1857) ... uses the red/green trick" But alas, only with magic lantern slides, I guess!
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Buzz Dixon wrote: SHE DEVIL (1957) based on Stanley Weinbaum's "The Adaptive Ultimate" uses the red/green trick to show the She Devil's hair changing from blonde to black. That was >also< shot...
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<< In case no one's mentioned it, Bob Burns also used that trick when he changed himself into Hydeon live TV on live TV. >> I didn't know about the live TV live TV but he certainly did it...
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Reference: "The Day I Turned Into Mr. Hyde Beforea Live TV Audience," written by Bob Burns for my old fanzine SHAZAM! #2 (1962-3).
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Didn't March have a very bad reaction to the makeup? I think Rose Hobart mentioned this in one of Tom's Books.
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I think this was from tests using liquid latex directly on his face. He was sensitive or allergic to this (as is fairly common), and the top layer of skin sloughed off. Pretty scary, especially for an...
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