CUSHING AND LEE UNPUBLISHED AND ON SET!

 

#Frankenstein #Friday! #ONSET Peter Cushing and Francis Matthews while making #Hammerfilms 'Revenge of Frankenstein' at Bray studios, just before the camera rolls, with clapper loader, Anthony Powell between Cushing and Matthews, holding 'something' to the camera! Over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page, we offered a gold star😁😁 . . . to anyone who can tell us what this process is called? This behind the scenes shot has been taken from the raw, trim end of the actual edited film footage!

 

#UPDATE The answer to the question below is WHITE BALANCE 😊 Back in the day and until recent times, there was no white balance setting on a film camera, because white balance is determined by which film you use and that is not a variable characteristic. Daylight balanced film, for example, is only balanced for daylight. To shoot in other kinds of light, like the studio light in this environment, the would use a pure white card or board, which would bounce the light, to the camera and the setting on the camera would be manually adjusted...this would have to be done, every time, the location of the camera would be changed. 

 

SOMETIMES a filter would be used, if filming was taken place in a real home with artificial light indoors...and a real window could be seen or casting light into the room, the windows would be covered with transparent but tinted 'blue or interior coloured light source' cellophane, which would compensate / adjust the exterior light to mix with the exterior coming into the room. Sometimes very subtle to the human eye but a huge difference to the sensitive film in the camera. Without doing this white shirts would be light blue, complexions of faces, would all have a blue tint, looking deader than the murder victim! 

 

#ONSET PHOTOGRAPH of #ChristopherLee, in the background approaching #PeterCushing's stuntman Peter Mount, and talking to Lee, Eddie Powell his stuntman for the prologue of #DraculaAD1972 . . Lee isn't wearing his cloak right now, But Eddie is wearing HIS...and if you want to know what that cloak is worth? I'd say about £26K😏😆

 

ABOVE: A RARE COLOUR photograph of, Director Terence Fisher working at the backlot of #Braystudios with #ChristopherLee during the shooting of the final scene . . . on ice in #Hammerfilms 'Dracula Prince of Darkness' (1966)

ANOTHER UNPUBLISHED on set promo photograph of #ChristopherLee from 'Scars of Dracula' ... a very rich looking Count this time, gold and red furnishings, a young cast, but sadly no #PeterCushing #VanHelsing . . how do you rate this one??

 

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