How?
How?
My guess is... and it's a total guess, but my guess is that this is an early use of non-animation rotoscope of some sort, mixed with a mirror doing some rear projection type technique. It looks like the plate of the woman diving off the rock bleeds off the monocular as it's wiping. And the hand of the of person holding the monocular is another shot and they match the rack focus to the third shot of the creeping Tom. But, to my knowledge, they would have had to project shot 1 (diver) and shot 2 (hand with monocular) while filming shot 3 (Creeper). Don't know how that's achieved. And I could be totally wrong.
I know this film has a lot of insane techniques they used. I remember reading about the set they built for the final sequence being this insane sound stage with sliding doors and smoke and mirrors. Orson Welles was just so ahead of his time.
Does anybody knows how they did this?
It’s amazing that this shot was made more than 70 years ago. My jaw fucking dropped. Amazing.
Optical printer, probably.
I read that in the ending of this movie where Welles and Hayworth are running around an abandoned amusement park was supposed to be around 20 minutes of footage, but the studio (Mercury Productions) took the film away from Welles and cut it down so it ended up being around only 3 minutes total. There are still some great shots of them in the hall of mirrors left in the movie that would definitely fit in here in this sub. Would love to see the extra footage, but it's probably been destroyed.
The studio was Columbia Pictures.
That has to be one of the best shots in cinema history
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
87 min
Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
Rating: 74% with 394 votes
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Love seeing quality shots instead of 5 minutes of uncut footage.