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1940s

5 effects · The decade marks introduction, breakthrough or wide use

  • 119

    Deep Focus

    1941: Citizen Kane as a famous milestone.

  • 120

    Dutch Angle

    1940s film noir; numerous later remakes

  • 121

    Film Noir Lighting

    1940s, American crime and detective films

  • 122

    Brûlage

    1930s-1940s, Raoul Ubac's surrealist experiments

  • 123

    Hollywood Glamour Lighting

    1940s studio glamour, developed during the preceding decades

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