cinematography Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens to foc ...

, night-for-night filming is the practice of actually filming night scenes at night. In the early days of cinema, before the invention of the proper lighting systems, night scenes were filmed "

day-for-night Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it is too difficult or expensive to actually shoot during nighttime. Because both film stocks and digital image sen ...

"—that is, they were filmed during the day, and the film was "corrected", either with a polarized lens on the

movie camera A movie camera (also known as a film camera and cine-camera) is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either on an image sensor or onto film stock, in order to produce a moving image to project onto a movie sc ...

, or via a variety of post-production techniques. Day-for-night shooting is still used in low-budget films. The American television producer

Quinn Martin Quinn Martin (born Irwin Martin Cohn; May 22, 1922 – September 5, 1987) was an American television producer. He had at least one television series running in prime time every year for 21 straight years (from 1959 to 1980). Martin is a mem ...

was known for heavily utilizing night-for-night filming.

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