Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earliest antecedents of this breakdown of the spatial illusion in painting are the pointillist pictures of the late nineteenth century -- particularly Seurat and Signac. They tried to break down the illusion of space by treating the frame with the same minute dots of color which cover the background of the pointillist canvas. As a result, the frame fuses with the canvas, giving the impression of no frame...
QUESTION: And the similar shot in Vertigo, where the background seems to fall out of the frame...
...this came about because of the early days of black-and-white photography. Being in monotone, the image had to be separated from the background. So they introduced back-lighting, and all the characters wore a halo. They were aiming at a third dimension, but they never really achieved it. So you would find yourself in a scene, let's say, in a farmhouse cottage, with bright lights hitting the people, coming from we don't know where, and creating back shadows everywhere. This method then transferred itself to color, which was quite unnecessary because color separates itself from...
...case may be dismissed. Plea bargaining is one of Vorenberg's main concerns, for as he told a national symposium on science and criminal justice in June, "these decisions are made -- usually by conscientious people -- operating under enormous time pressure and with little or no information about the background of the offender or the likely effect of any particular decision that is made...
When we talk about higher calibre police agencies we must consider in detail what kinds of education and background we want our policemen to have and what changes must be made in what we ask the police to do in order to attract the men we want...