When you ca n’t trust on a computing machine to ameliorate ( or fake ) a picture show scene , you got ta improvise . And back in the days of soundless films , filmmakers were really , really good at come up with originative ways to fudge up peculiar effect . It was a master class of using specific television camera angles , splice together injection , using looking glass matte paintings , and twist perspectives to make things look as realistic as possible .
Silent Movie GIFsis an fantabulous resource that reveal how things used to be done in the past . He detail a lot of famous example ( like the one above of Harold Lloyd drop off a clock in Safety Last ! , which used position to make it look veridical ) in a wonderful posthere . It ’s a playfulness read for anyone .
Here ’s how Charlie Chaplin curler skated rearwards and “ almost ” fell in a department store in Modern Times
How a background was added to a shot from Modern Times using a glass lustrelessness painting shotpic.twitter.com/4EddbfTOh8
— Silent Movie GIFs ( @silentmoviegifs)January 6 , 2017
The finished shot :
The end result in Modern Times ( 1936 ) , look like Chaplin is really in risk of going over the edgepic.twitter.com/2qjjzU04WX
This tricky matte shot from Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. is really cool too :
Buster Keaton seamlessly combines a matte slam and a crazy stunt in Sherlock Jr. ( 1924)pic.twitter.com / kSA9hMkcQg
— Silent Movie GIFs ( @silentmoviegifs)January 7 , 2017
And how it was done :
By placing a plate of glass partially painted black in front of the television camera , Keaton on the motorcycle was filmed separately from the truckspic.twitter.com/KHEiamPWES
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