the ageing effect

i thought it was a great effect. looked like it was done with makeup and lighting, but it was a bravo of realism to me. i was in awe.

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I think it's some kind of photochemical makeup, i.e. it reacts when exposed to light. It was used at least as far back in 1931's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Not sure if it's actually how it was done, but it seems like a similar effect to what they did in the 1925 Ben-Hur when Jesus healed the lepers: they drew the age lines on Barbara Steele's face with a certain colored makeup that wouldn't appear when a certain color filter was in front of the lens, then they switched color filters in-camera to make the lines appear/disappear depending on which filter they started with.



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I don't know but it was a great effect and looked very realistic. This movie did have very good special effects and they still hold up well today over 50 years later.

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I don't know about this film specifically, but I saw an interview with Mario Bava in which he explained and demonstrated a similiar effect he used in "I Vampiri" (credited as Cinematographer, but he also wrapped up the film after the original director walked out):
You can't see it in Monochrome, but the actresses' face is painted blue. The ageing lines are marked in red, and they simply fade out a red lamp and fade in a blue lamp which will gradually show the ageing lines. It's brilliant, actually, when you think about it.
I think this effect was used in Jekyll & Hyde as well.