{"id":172,"date":"2008-06-24T00:56:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:36:11","slug":"throwing-lifeless-light-on-the-undead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Light on the Lifeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yester-day, in the shower, my thoughts wandered onto the question of just <em>what<\/em>, exactly, is wrong with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0027545\/\"><cite>Dracula's Daughter<\/cite> (1936)<\/a>, and I re&auml;lized that its great flaw is its pedestrian <em>cinematography<\/em>.  This conclusion then led me to wonder <em>who<\/em> was the cinematographer.  This morning, I found that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0732648\/\">George Robinson<\/a>.  Looking at the rest of his credits, I quickly saw that he was also cinematographer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021815\/\"><cite>Dr&aacute;cula<\/cite> (1931)<\/a>, the Spanish-language version of <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">Dracula<\/span> shot, at night, on the same sets as were being used to shoot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021814\/\"><cite>Dracula<\/cite> (1931)<\/a> in the day.  One of the various ways in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021815\/\"><cite>Dr&aacute;cula<\/cite><\/a> is mark&egrave;dly inferior to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021814\/\"><cite>Dracula<\/cite><\/a> is the <em>thoughtless<\/em> cinematography of the former.<\/p> <p>Incorrigible, <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a> has now referred to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0732648\/\">Robinson<\/a> as <q>the man who made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021815\/\"><cite>Dr&aacute;cula<\/cite><\/a> suck<\/q>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yester-day, in the shower, my thoughts wandered onto the question of just what, exactly, is wrong with Dracula's Daughter (1936), and I re&auml;lized that its great flaw is its pedestrian cinematography. This conclusion then led me to wonder who was the cinematographer. This morning, I found that it was George Robinson. Looking at the rest [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,117,4],"tags":[170,54,56],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-communication","category-public","tag-cinema","tag-film","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}