Interesting about blinds and not only...

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Blinds are a very powerful backdrop for many photographs, as we have already covered twice (in articles about striped curves and about cats). And, of course, the matter is not limited to photographs alone. Literally in the very first films made by mankind, we can see various blinds, shutters and awnings in the frames.

In 1895-97, to popularize a new type of art - cinematograph or "animated photography" - the Lumiere brothers sent cameramen to all parts of the world to shoot on location.

Hundreds of one-minute videos were filmed. In some of them we see what our site is dedicated to.

Here are the marquises on the street of French Lyon. This is 1895.

And these are the shutters in the form of blinds in the train cars! The rarest shots.

A little later, the original drawing in the form of stripes began to be used by directors to visually enhance the picture.

1922 film "Foolish Wives".

In the 1940s and 1950s, a new style of cinema appeared - dark noir, which is simply impossible to imagine without blinds. At that time, many films were released, where serious crime stories were played against the background of black and white stripes.

Blinds and film noir are almost synonymous in cinematography.

In the fifties, American cinema was dominated by Marilyn Monroe.

This is the 1952 film You Don't Knock.

The film "The Misfits" 1961.

Then, during a break between filming.

One of the most famous seduction scenes in world cinema - with blinds in the frame! Oscar-winning film by Vittorio de Sica "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" 1963.

The unchanging duet of Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in the eternal city that gave its name to Roman blinds.

Another sex icon of the time - Brigitte Bardot - in the 1969 film Women.

And here, in general, a reference to the medieval primitive prototypes of blinds. The film "The Adventures of the Gunner Dolas" 1970.

The always clumsy Pierre Richard can't fix the blinds in the 1972 film The Misadventures of Alfred.

One of the most iconic science fiction films of all time. "Blade Runner" 1982.

The blinds scene even made it onto the official Vangelis soundtrack.

Striped drama.

Another famous erotic scene. And everyone knows this movie! Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke in "9 1/2 Weeks" 1986.

Here is her co-star in 1987's Angel Heart.

Arnold in Total Recall. 1990

A rare guest in the frame - plastic vertical blinds. Apparently it was believed that these would be in great demand in the future.

Fantastic Eva Green in Sin City 2005

Tom Cruise poses in front of roller blinds somewhere in London from the 2018 Mission: Impossible Fallout movie.

The world of cinema would have lost a lot of expressive successful shots if mankind hadn't invented blinds. And there are thousands of such examples. We just briefly walked through the main historical stages.