Mirror POV Trick in "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (Fredric March, 1932)

How do you shoot a POV mirror shot without showing the camera?
First, the camera lens represents Dr. Henry Jekyll's first-person point of vie
The "mirror" is actually a clear-glass window in the wall.
On cue, Fredric March (Jekyll) approaches it from the far side...
...in a reverse-duplicate room.
Then his butler Poole (Edgar Norton) joins him in the mirror-room "reflection."
Later, the same window technique is used to give us another POV "mirror" view of Jekyll...
...and then, of his savage alter-ego, Hyde.
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[@epsteinisms1483]

Very interesting and clever camera work. It seems to me that the Disney animators borrowed several ideas from this film for the Queen's transformation sequence in "Snow White" - the upheld glass, the choking, the room spinning.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

I agree!

[@Whetzell]

How did his face change in real time? Seemed too clean to be a match shot

[@fluorideenjoyer]

The shadows on his face were drawn with red makeup, which is invisible under red lighting (and not noticeable due to the black and white). At the beginning of the scene they would put red filters over the lights, hiding the makeup, then for the big reveal they would replace the red filter with a green filter, which would reveal it.

[@leandroligotti5649]

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