Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan in Bridgerton season three

We’ve recently shared at HuffPost UK how movies manage to get newborn babies to cry on set.

And we’ve even explained how weather forecasters know where to point on the green screen when they’re on the news.

But it wasn’t until I was watching a movie with mirrors in it that I had the sudden thought – how do camera crews and production teams shoot scenes with reflective surfaces without appearing in the frame?

So, how is it done?

Movies Insider shared that in Orson Welle’s 1947 film The Lady From Shanghai, the iconic hall of mirrors scene used two-way mirrors, and the cameras simply shot from the non-reflective side.

This technique was also used in 2019′s It Chapter 2.

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