AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. • :: . >'ssss■ THE FAMOUS MUSICAL COMEDY: “SAtLY.’’||i| C ' . ' ■: 'f '■ "V • TO-NIGHT AND FRIDAY. The stage footlight method of liglit--;.T ing has just been (borrowed by the films, or rather brought to Holloywood by New York stage stars, and you’ll see how effective it is on the screen yvhen “Sally,” starring Marilyn Miller, comes to the. Princess Theatre this evening and Friday next. For years the film producers to do with footlights except to photograph them occasionally fin a, “long shot” of- a stage and orchestra pit.. Early “talkers” featuring famous stage stars were criticised because the favourites of the flesh-and-blood drama, ■ reduced to cinema ;did,. not resemble themselves, fiijitteii how hard the capable movie "cfttnbrEj-. „.J man- tried. Sol Polito was « the solver of th© problem; at any fate T w ; he brought it to the notice, jO{ produc-. * ens on the First National and Vitaphone studio lot and so-got -the.- credit Polito, a noted Italian art-photogra-pher: and cinematographer, deolared that the movie top and side and back-lighting disguised the famous stage stars used. “The light, coming froni-the bpitbin' as from ■ footlights, ■; appearance,” ppto explains? “YFe must have a fq|||ght effect in all scenes of these stars so that their followers will recognise them.” “How wilPyou get thM-effect out of doors?” -Polito was asked. - “When using sunlight, place reflectors on the ground to throw light up at the usual footlight-angle !” w;§ the Mflter, .i“Sal%ssjeVfcnder • Giiy, m im \ Nrt''N|«fitte7 ml ‘Pttli inrtjkf tuf i^hte^[; 2 '4; ip gh t the ris|maf . be ' cfecent of above each cjjpik. This shortens the face; the fe r meth(*ij dertj#hen<j; at,ln b‘ of famj|iarf fi% stars;,;dhe ; dis, gijiseOyould lie almost equally effective ifivfootilight methods of lighting wore prices; Circle ahVi -back Btpfe 3s 3d, front stalls, 2s. Children ujjder 12 I®. U ■ ' ' ; #sßeserxes .at Mclntosh’s shop. ,- m. i v.-Ui ?,'• W% ■ ’ " ■