1940s: The secret behavior of movie-goers

[jakeXT]

http://mashable.com/2014/12/13/movie-theater-behavior/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I had forgotten there were 3-D movies back then..

Wonder which one that was?

[jakeXT]

2. The link with the rest of the pictures said 1943, so maybe Dead Men Walk

[RebelOne]

3. I do not remember any 3-D movies other then the 1950s.

As far as I can remember, they were first released in the early '50s.

[DebJ]

4. My Mom is 86 and she went as a child. by the 50s she was married and

I don't think she went to more than three movies the 60 years they've been married.

[MADem]

5. On very hot days, people would go to the films to cool off

The theaters were air conditioned.

That infrared camera made that poor young woman's blouse see-through!

[Sherman A1]

6. Agreed

The theaters were refuges from the heat, as for the third photo. Just looking at it, my takeaway is that they were mugging for the camera at bit, but you are correct about the affect of the camera/light on her attire.

[jakeXT]

7. I thought it was a Streisand type material, but maybe not in the 40s

[MADem]

8. The photographer is using ultraviolet film, there is no flash.

See through clothes got hip in the seventies--before that, NO ONE showed any undergarments, it just wasn't done!

That woman would be freaking if she could have seen that pic contemporaneously with the events depicted (for lots of reasons, I would imagine--her "visible brassiere" being just one of 'em!).

[jakeXT]

9. I didn't know about the trend of using the night vision function to see through clothes

Still, I think it's just the flash, you can see a shadow behind the couple, so there must be a light source.

Should see-through cameras be illegal?

...
Using products readily available online, we took a 10-year-old Sony TRV-8 mini DV video camera and turned it into an infrared camera capable of seeing through certain fabrics.

Our camera has a night shot function which, when turned on, allows infrared light to be recorded. Next we bought a $20 infrared filter that removes visible light and screwed it on the end the camera lens.

Using the infrared filter, with the night vision turned on, the only thing our old mini DV camera recorded was infrared light. This allowed us to see through some envelopes, colored plastic and various synthetic blend fabrics. But you can't see through everything. It all depends on how the materials are made.
http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/94802064.html?tab=video&c=y

[MADem]

10. The light source is the movie screen--no flash. nt

[jakeXT]

11. It's to the left of the couple, it should be behind them when it's coming from the screen or in

front of them when the light from the projector hits them

[MADem]

12. No, they are looking at the screen....so the light reflected off the screen should be "bathing" them

as it were.

There is no flash on the camera--that's part of the voyeuristic aspect of this photoessay, that most people didn't realize the photographer was taking pics of them.

• Weegee used infrared negative film to photograph people in the dark at theatres and opera houses in the 1940s.

http://www.agallery.com/pages/photographers/weegee.html