P.S. Interesting to note the way in which cinematic blood-on-the-lens has migrated to first-person videogames, where it functions less to invoke a camera/cameraman than to literalize the conceit of an avatarial body. For an example, see this page: http://forums.gametrailers.com/thread/the-best-blood-in-a-game------/1053869 and scroll down a few entries to the "jelly looking MW2 blood" screenshot from Modern Warfare 2. Bob Rehak Assistant Professor Film and Media Studies Program Swarthmore College On leave 2010-2011 ----- Original Message ----- > I just saw The Three Stooges in Pardon My Backfire (1953) at Film > Forum in NYC, part of their classic 3D series; oil is sprayed > directly onto the lens. And the technique is not uncommon in nature/ > wildlife films set in oceans, lakes, rivers. > > Cynthia Chris, Associate Professor > Department of Media Culture > College of Staten Island, CUNY > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Kendrick, Jim wrote: > > > I immediately thought of the sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "The > > Shining" in which the torrent of blood comes pouring out of the > > elevator. We see it several times, but it is only the last time > > that the blood actually washes up over the camera and we see > > everything for several seconds bathed in red. > > _________________ > > > > James Kendrick, Ph.D. > > Assistant Professor > > Dept. of Communication Studies > > Film and Digital Media Division > > Baylor University > > http://homepages.baylor.edu/james_kendrick > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] On > > Behalf Of Miriam Ross [[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:45 AM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [SCREEN-L] Saving Private Ryan's blood on the camera > > technique > > > > Does anyone know of instances prior to Saving Private Ryan where > > blood or > > other liquids have splattered onto the camera lens and have been > > left in the > > shot (thus suggesting the fourth wall). > > Following this enquiry, does anyone know of any 3D films that have > > used the > > same effect. Step Up 3D allows water to remain on the lens but I > > haven't seen this in any other previous stereoscopic films. > > > > many thanks > > Miriam Ross > > > > -- > > http://glasgow.academia.edu/MiriamRoss > > > > ---- > > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > > > > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put > > SIGNOFF Screen-L > > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org