{"id":1793,"date":"2014-03-17T09:14:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:07:14","slug":"horrorfixxx-jack-pierce-fixing-up-boris-karloff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1793 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?attachment_id=1794'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n25wkabwAv1qav174o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/horrorfixxx.com\/post\/79092521064\/jack-pierce-fixing-up-boris-karloff-on-the-set-of\" target=\"_blank\">horrorfixxx<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Jack Pierce fixing up Boris Karloff on the set of The Mummy. (1932)<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I asked myself how they did the Karloff make-up because it looked so dry shrinked. Now I know: <span id=\"result_box\"><span class=\"hps\">Since today&rsquo;s make-up materials<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">did not exist in the 1930s<\/span><span class=\"hps\"><\/span><span>, Jack<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Pierce<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">had to<\/span> put <span class=\"hps\">several layers<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">applied with<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">collodion<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">smeared<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">cotton on <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\"><span class=\"hps\"><span id=\"result_box\"><span class=\"hps\">Karloff&rsquo;s<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">face<\/span> <\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to represent<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the effect of<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">dried-up<\/span><span>,<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">shriveled<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">mummy<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">skin.<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">This extremely<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">uncomfortable<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">mask<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">was so<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">rigid that<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Boris<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Karloff<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">was no longer<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">able<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to open his mouth<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to speak<\/span><span>. He is acting with the eye&rsquo;s.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>horrorfixxx: Jack Pierce fixing up Boris Karloff on the set of The Mummy. (1932) I asked myself how they did the Karloff make-up because it looked so dry shrinked. Now I know: Since today&rsquo;s make-up materials did not exist in the 1930s, Jack Pierce had to put several layers applied &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,107,383,384,385,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}