Recycling Hair Gel
When the movies have a nighttime scene that streets are always wet. Why is that?
———- from Rich Adams of San Jose, Ca.
It’s actually hair gel that’s glistening under those klieg lights. Moviemaking is a time-consuming process, and a shoot that begins at dawn often ends in the wee hours of the next morning. After a day of having nervous hair technicians touching up the actors’ do with spritzes and sprays, the set gets pretty slippery. Back when all shooting was done on a sound stage, they simply flushed the set with a firehose every hour or so, and let it all run down the drain. By the way, the set is gel covered during the early part of the day as well, but the angle of the sunlight makes it invisible.
It’s actually hair gel that’s glistening under those klieg lights. Moviemaking is a time-consuming process, and a shoot that begins at dawn often ends in the wee hours of the next morning. After a day of having nervous hair technicians touching up the actors’ do with spritzes and sprays, the set gets pretty slippery. Back when all shooting was done on a sound stage, they simply flushed the set with a firehose every hour or so, and let it all run down the drain. By the way, the set is gel covered during the early part of the day as well, but the angle of the sunlight makes it invisible. 