Kodak SPECIAL - Page 66

GHOST pictures. In such a scene the housings and unimportam me-
chanical parts
of the product would be presem in the picture as trans-
parent objects, while the parts to be emphasized would appear solid.
To attain this effect, the scene must be photographed successively on
the same strip of film, giving less exposure when the housings and
other subdued parts are presem and giving more exposure when the
importam parts are finally photographed.
By combining the dissolving-out and ghost methods, solid parts can
fade to transparent parts .
Other applications of cut-aways are: first to show the package, then
the comems - such as candy, food, cigars; to demonstrate ply construc-
tion-such as tires, cables, wood; to indicate in photoplays where
articles are concealed-such as bonds in a safe, or hidden jewels.
DOUBLE EXPOSURE
THE types of double exposures you can make are almost without limit.
Half-masks enable you to have human and animated subjects in the
same scene. By having a narrow tree or post in the center of the pic-
ture, a
group of people or a vehicle can hide behind it. A person can be
made to vanish into thin air, simply by having him walk from one
side
of the field to the other, thus crossing the dividing line.
Many weird and mysterious effects can be obtained with the hori-
zontal half-masks. The tower of a building can be made to telescope
into the lower part of the building or a person's head telescope into the
body by panoraming the camera upward while the upper half is being
Double exposure, using the circle mask.
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exposed. A person's legs can
be made
to run away from
him, lea ving his amazed
trunk floating in mid-air by
filming the top half of the
subject first and not letting
him move until the filming
of the second half is well
under way, when he will run
away to supply the run-
away-legs effect.