question: How are movie scenes in front of mirrors shot?
comment: One way to do it is to not have any mirror at all. You put your main actor behind an empty mirror frame facing the camera, and then a double dressed just like a main actor with their back to the camera. A double will have to synchronize their movements with the main actor.
passages: In the same movie, Schüfftan used a variation of this process so that the miniature set (or drawing) was shown on the reflective part of the mirror and the actors were filmed through the transparent part.
   The novel's first adaptation was the 1985 television film "Murder with Mirrors" with Sir John Mills as Lewis Serrocold, Bette Davis as Carrie Louise, Neil Swettenham as Edgar Lawson and Helen Hayes as Miss Marple.
   Section::::Cast.
  
  BULLET::::- Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson
  
  BULLET::::- Paula Patton as Amy Carson
  
  BULLET::::- Amy Smart as Angie Carson
  
  BULLET::::- Cameron Boyce as Michael "Mikey" Carson
  
  BULLET::::- Erica Gluck as Daisy Carson
  
  BULLET::::- Mary Beth Peil as Anna Esseker
  
  BULLET::::- John Shrapnel as Lorenzo Sapelli
  
  BULLET::::- Jason Flemyng as Det. Larry Byrne
  
  BULLET::::- Tim Ahern as Dr. Morris
  
  BULLET::::- Julian Glover as Robert Esseker
  
  BULLET::::- Josh Cole as Gary Lewis
  
  BULLET::::- Ezra Buzzington as Terrence Berry
  
  Section::::Production.
  
  The movie was filmed mostly in the Academy of Sciences building in Bucharest.
  
  Section::::Music.
   The concept has also been used in comics. In "", Batman is seen chasing the Joker through an amusement park and into a hall of mirrors. It was used to create suspense as Joker could not clearly decipher what was real and what was just an image.
  
  Section::::References in fiction.:Film.
  
  In Charlie Chaplin's 1928 movie The Circus, Charlie Chaplin is chased into a mirror maze by a thief and the police. Charlie Chaplin Official Youtube Movie Clip: Charlie Chaplin - The Mirror Maze (The Circus)
   BULLET::::- Walter Hudd: American husband of Gina.
  
  BULLET::::- Mildred Strete: Sister of Pippa, and the only child born to Carrie Louise and her first husband, Mr Gulbrandsen. She was widowed a few years before the story begins.
  
  BULLET::::- Juliet Bellever: Called Jolly, she is Carrie Louise's secretary and companion since Louise's second marriage.
   Section::::Production.:Visual effects and costuming.
   Section::::Production.
   BULLET::::- Frank Welker also provides the vocal effects of the giant puppets.
  
  Section::::Casting.
   A security guard runs through a subway station until he enters a room he cannot escape and starts begging his reflection in a mirror for his life. His reflection uses a shard to slice into its own throat; the wound reflects upon the real security guard's body, killing him.
  
  Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland), a suspended police detective, begins his first day as a night security guard at the Mayflower, a luxury department store that was gutted by a fire and shuttered five years prior. The building still contains numerous mirrors from the store.
   The design of the witches' lair was inspired by the Hall of Mirrors in the palace of Versaille, France, but with black instead of white and silver instead of gold.
  
  Filming was finished by 13 July 2006.
  
  Section::::Production.:VFX.
   BULLET::::- Carrie Louise Serrocold: Younger sister of Ruth, also a school friend of Miss Marple.
  
  BULLET::::- Lewis Serrocold: Third husband of Carrie Louise, once an accountant and now an enthusiast for the charitable treatment of juvenile delinquents.
  
  BULLET::::- Gina Hudd: Granddaughter of Carrie Louise from her first marriage. She was born in Italy, moved to England as an infant when her mother died in childbirth. She spent World War II in the US with her aunt Ruth, sent there for safety. Her mother was Pippa, the adopted daughter of Carrie Louise and her first husband, Eric Gulbrandsen.
   Principal photography for "A Dark Reflection" initially lasted 40 days. It was filmed in Techniscope format using Fuji 35mm film by Director of Photography Nicholas Eriksson.
  
  All of the filming was done on location in England apart from a week of filming in Jordan, Loraine deciding not to use a soundstage. Further filming was carried out in Spring 2014 in Horsham.
   The process was refined and popularized by the German cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan while he was working on the movie "Metropolis" (1927), although there is evidence that other film-makers were using similar techniques earlier than this. The movie's director, Fritz Lang, wanted to insert the actors into shots of miniatures of skyscrapers and other buildings, so Schüfftan used a specially made mirror to create the illusion of actors interacting with huge, realistic-looking sets.
   Over the following years, the Schüfftan process was used by many other film-makers, including Alfred Hitchcock, in his films "Blackmail" (1929) and "The 39 Steps" (1935), and as recently as "" (2003), directed by Peter Jackson. The Schüfftan process has largely been replaced with matte shots, which allow the two portions of the image to be filmed at different times and give opportunities for more changes in post production.
  
  The Schüfftan process's use of mirrors is very similar to the 19th century stage technique known as Pepper's ghost.
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Bipack
  
  BULLET::::- Optical printer
  
  BULLET::::- Special effects
   BULLET::::- The hall of mirrors, commonly found in amusement parks, is an attraction in which a number of distorting mirrors are used to produce unusual reflections of the visitor.
  
  BULLET::::- Mirrors are employed in kaleidoscopes, personal entertainment devices invented in Scotland by Sir David Brewster.
  
  BULLET::::- Mirrors are often used in magic to create an illusion. One effect is called Pepper's ghost.
   BULLET::::- "Poltergeist III" features mirrors that do not reflect reality and which can be used as portals to the afterlife.
  
  BULLET::::- "Oculus" is a horror film about a haunted mirror that causes people to hallucinate and commit acts of violence.
  
  BULLET::::- "The 10th Kingdom" miniseries requires the characters to use a magic mirror to travel between New York City (the 10th Kingdom) and the Nine Kingdoms of fairy tale.
  
  Section::::Applications.:Literature.
  
  Mirrors play a powerful role in cultural literature.
   The first known literary example is in Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" (1911), in which Erik has built one for the Shah of Persia as a trap and later uses a similar trap to protect his lair from his enemies. Perhaps the first cinematic instance of this was at the climax of the film "The Lady from Shanghai" (1948). Other notable examples include Woody Allen's movie "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993) which directly refers to "The Lady from Shanghai"; the CBS soap "Guiding Light" which, in 1980, featured a now famous sequence that depicted heroine Rita Bauer (Lenore Kasdorf) being pursued through a hall of mirrors by villain Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow); the show "Macgyver", where Jack Dalton is brainwashed and is forced to fire on Macgyver; and "the Teen Titans series" episode "Betrayal". Francisco Scaramanga's "Fun House" in the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun" has a House of mirrors. In an episode of the Twilight Zone, "In Praise of Pip", a bookie tries to tell his dying son how much he loves him while chasing him inside a house of mirrors; the 1984 movie Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger contains a house of mirrors fight, and the 1983 Walt Disney movie "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel of the same title) culminates in a house of mirrors confrontation. In the fourth season of the show Leverage, in the episode "The Carnival Job", Elliot has a showdown with Molly's captors in a house of mirrors.
   BULLET::::- Steven Restarick: Son of Carrie Louise's second husband, who has since childhood considered Carrie Louise as a mother and her home as his home, as his father died not long after his father divorced Carrie Louise. He loves Gina, and works in the theatre, helping often with the delinquents to stage plays there.
  
  BULLET::::- Alexis Restarick: Older brother of Steven, who views Carrie Louise affectionately as his brother does. He loves Gina and also works in the theatre. He is killed at the same time as Ernie, in the theatre.
   The fifth segment is set in Taiwan in 2000. A woman approaches the antique dressing table and sees her eyeballs falling out from their sockets in her reflection in the mirror.
  
  Section::::Cast.
  
  BULLET::::- Sherming Yiu as courtesan
  
  BULLET::::- Xu Fan as Mary
  
  BULLET::::- Li Zhirui as dumb girl
  
  BULLET::::- Chen Shasha as Mary's housekeeper
  
  BULLET::::- Jack Neo as James
  
  BULLET::::- Lynn Poh as Lora
  
  BULLET::::- John Cheng as Roman
  
  BULLET::::- Karen Tong as rape victim
  
  BULLET::::- Lin Ruping as accused's mother
  
  BULLET::::- Raymond Wong as rape victim's boyfriend
  
  BULLET::::- Lillian Ho as Yu
  
  BULLET::::- Law Lan as Ming's grandmother
   Section::::Production.:Design.
   The second segment is set in Shanghai in 1922. Mary, an heiress to a large mansion, receives an antique dressing table as a birthday gift. She notices that there is something strange about the mirror and starts receiving eerie phone calls reminding her about her dark secrets in the past. She had an affair with a professor who already had a family. In order to silence him and take over his mansion, she poisoned him to death. One night, her two servants confront her, tell her that they are actually the professor's daughters, and avenge their father.
   "A Haunting in Salem" was shot in Native 3D using the Alterna GV-4 beam splitter rig and 2 Red One cameras. Shot in 12 days, the production managed up to 28 set ups per day. Shannon Benna was stereographer and is credited as "Hollywoods'd First Female Feature Stereographer" for her work on this film.
  
  Section::::Critical response.
   Section::::In other media.
  
  Section::::In other media.:Television.
  
  Section::::In other media.:Television.:Live-action.
   Section::::Modern adaptations.:Other.:"Faerie Tale Theatre".
  
  The mirror in "Faerie Tale Theatre" was played by Vincent Price, whose face appeared as if mounted on the top of the mirror (in reality, Price stuck his face through a hole). This mirror, as did all of the Queen's (Vanessa Redgrave) other mirrors, turned black as she found out that Snow White was alive.
  
  Section::::Modern adaptations.:Other.:"Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics".
   BULLET::::- Captain Nemo's Reflection: A mirror is displayed on the organ and guests can sometimes witness Nemo's reflection. A recreation of James Mason's face is actually hidden behind the glass. When lit, it becomes visible.
  
  Section::::Trivia.
  
  BULLET::::- Originally, a larger version of this walkthrough was intended, with more rooms and even an underwater restaurant. It was to be part of the never-built Discovery Mountain project, which was shelved when Disneyland Paris underwent financial troubles.
  