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Screen Grabs
Lost in Space in its Second
Season
Gallery II
Updated with Fifteen New Images (scroll down to the bottom of the page), 5 December 2003
All Screengrabs
From
"Wreck of
the Robot"
Episode 42
Original Airdate:
14 December 1966
Production
Number: 9514
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Lost In Space In the Dark
The following screen grabs show off
the innovative and artistic lighting effects of the Lost in Space
cinematographers, under the supervision of Frank Carson. Compared to black
and white film, especially the nitrate stocks of the 1920s and 1930s, color
film requires far more light if it is to be exposed properly. Consequently
color cinematography in low light situations is very difficult and usually
avoided or, where unavoidable, simulated using filters. Frank Carson and
his team, however, managed to capture some exquisitely lit night time scenes
in this episode. The emphasis on shadow and, indeed, the camera focus on
the shadows cast by the Saticons and the robot against the Jupiter II are
among the most artistic, technically challenging, and aesthetically satisfying
examples of cinematography on record. These scenes are in keeping with
the artistic lighting and camera work of the best expressionistic horror
films of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Nosferatu (Prana Film, 1922),
Dracula (Universal 1931), and Bride of Frankenstein (Universal,
1935).