Showing posts with label theatre designers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre designers. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

camoufleur Bérard made Chantecler farm yard scene

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costume from Chantecler Back in 2014, we blogged about the French stage designer Louis Bérard , perhaps best known as " le decorateur d...
Friday, July 18, 2025

more on camoufleur Carol M. Sax from Ottumwa Iowa

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Carol M. Sax / passport photograph (AI colorized) In earlier blog posts, we've shared quite a lot about Iowa-born theatrical designer a...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

architects / they have an eye for the looks of things

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Above Photograph of Homer Saint-Gaudens , by De Witt Clinton Ward. ••• HOLLYWOOD PROP MEN ABLE AT WAR CAMOUFLAGE in The Boston Globe , Jan...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Homer St. Gaudens as drawn by Gordon Stevenson

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Above Cover of TIME magazine (May 12, 1924), featuring a portrait of Homer St. Gaudens (son of the celebrated sculptor Augustus St. Gaude...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

disruptive geezer theatre doors / wartime propaganda

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Above This photograph was published in an American theatre magazine during World War I. It shows the decorated entrance of a Broadway theat...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

camouflage tricks behind the scenes in hollywood

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Boston Globe , June 15, 1921 Anon, Movie Facts and Fancies , Boston Globe , October 1, 1921, p. 12— The studio scenic artist of today…is an ...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

stage design, cubist nightmares, a toy shop gone mad

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the life of camoufleur Carol Sax Above In the past, we've posted various findings about Carol Sax (1885-1961), an Iowa-born theatre s...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Theatrical special effects | Thayer's disappearing man

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Abbott H. Thayer holding one of his duck decoys (upsidedown) Until recently, I had not heard of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), an American ...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Freighters as unrecognizable as a portrait by Picasso

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Hypothetical dazzle schemes © Roy R. Behrens Lee Simonson , THE WAR AS ART CRITIC in Minor Prophecies . New York: Harcourt Brace, 1927,...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Paint manufacturers, scenographers, and camoufleurs

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Harrison Marine Paints Advertisement (1918) Above There are apparently no full-color photographs of WWI-era camouflaged ships, since co...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Oliver Percy Bernard | Camoufleur and Scenographer

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Oliver Percy Bernard (c1915) The RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. It sank in 18 minutes, eleven miles off...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Camouflage used as film theatre entrance advertising

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Theatre entrance for The Geezer of Berlin (1918), NYC In a wartime issue of Motography (November 10, 1917, p. 975), a brief article app...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Jasper | dappled dog with white chicken on backside

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Above A vintage news photograph of a dog that appears to have the shape of a white chicken on its backside. ••• A Conscientious Objec...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Set Design: Camouflage is as old as show business

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Above Here are the sheep. But what has become of the shepherd? Can you find him? ••• Daniel Dillon, STAGE SETTERS IN US FORCE in Wor...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Camouflage Artist \ Theatre Designer Victor H. Martin

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Above World War I US Army camoufleurs applying chalk lines to military equipment in advance of painting camouflage. ••• So here’s a...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Teaching Camouflage | The Real Art of War 1917

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Top photo shows painted mural concealing the road In an earlier blog post , we shared drawings and photographs of the use of perspective...