Poster of the Week! -- The creepy image of Hyde as Jekyll's cubist shadow distinguishes this poster advertising the 1932 Swedish release of Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. American Cinematographer has a great and very informative article about the making of this landmark film, highlighting the groundbreaking and sometimes experimental work of its director, Mamoulian, and the film's cinematographer, Karl Struss.
Struss himself had a career in cinematography that spanned 5 decades with close to 140 credits, from silent classics like the original Ben-Hur and Murnau's Sunrise (for which he earned an Oscar) to some of Chaplin's sound films (The Great Dictator and Limelight) to humbler efforts in the tail end of his career like Rocketship X-M, The Fly, and The Alligator People. Before his cinematographic career, Struss was an accomplished and recognized pictorial photographer who sold work to the top fashion magazines of the day (the 1910s), and was a member of Alfred Stieglitz's group. Here's a long essay excerpted from an illustrated exhibition catalog. Here's an eerie shot of a waterfront on the East Side of New York; a clash of modernity and tradition in a seemingly random shot of a Columbus Day Parade in 1912; a color shot of the Boardwalk in Long Island from 1910; some Struss shots here; some more shots here; some nudes from 1914 here (very tasteful, but the models are nude); also, a short article on Struss' work in stereo photography and in 3-D movies.
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