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By the way, A View To A Kill isn't the only movie nod to Black Light and fluorescence! Over to The Guardians of the Galaxy and the one and only Peter Quill...

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Use of Black Lights can be traced to the early 1900's, when Robert Williams Wood invented Wood's Glass, a material that filtered visible light waves, leaving ultra-violet and infra-red waves visible. Used during World War I for clandestine communication, it also found uses in medicine and biology.

One of these was the Fluor-S-Art Co., incorporated in 1934 to sell black light paints for advertising purposes. This resulted in a partnership with a subsidiary of Warner Brothers Pictures to develop fluorescent paints for movie posters and advertising displays.

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Here at Diode Dynamics, our Stage Series LED Light Bars were inspired by the needs of a professional rally driver. These LED light bars have been designed for maximum functionality, with compact size, custom-engineered TIR optics, and a useful beam pattern, all in a highly durable package.

A Black Light is a light source such as a lamp or torch that emits long-wave ultra-violet (UV-A) light waves and very little visible light.

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If you spend enough time reading about movie posters, you will occasionally come across the term "... visible under a black light". We have been asked a few times what that means, so thought it was about time we addressed the question on the blog.

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1985's movie goers will also have seen fluorescence used to great effect in the opening titles of James Bond's A View To A Kill, accompanied by the fantastic Duran Duran theme tune!

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During the 1930's the Switzer brothers from Berkeley, California began experimenting with a Black Light and the contents of their father's pharmacy. They identified naturally occurring compounds that provided fluorescent effects. Using these they were able to create a range of fluorescent paints and set out looking for commercial opportunities.

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Focus the Black Light upon it and a reversed Lucasfilm Limited logo is clearly visible. This is only visible under Black Light and we always check for it when we receive an example of this poster.

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Each year, the great and the good of film production, distribution and exhibition gather for the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, CinemaCon.

Back then the appearance of a Star Wars actor on the BBC was quite something. Luckily the Beeb has pulled some of the best bits together for us.

By the 1960's their company had diversified into flaw detection of machine parts, military applications, detergents and workplace safety. Their company was known as the Day-Glo Colour Corp.

Fluorescent inks are however used to reduce the risk of counterfeits and a great example is the 'Style A' teaser poster for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, made available to members of the Star Wars Fan Club.

Last week we popped along to the incredible Star Wars toy convention, Echo Base Live. The amazing collection of original figures took us back to childhood and the heady days of the '70s and '80s.

During the counter-culture revolution of the swinging sixties, fluorescent art and posters were developed, including the album artwork for Cream's 1967 album, Disraeli Gears.

These days, inks with fluorescent properties may be used to enhance colours in movie posters. There are also stories of them being used to hide messages on posters, although we believe most (perhaps all?) of those are urban myths.

Over 30 years after it was first released, the almost universal love felt towards Shawshank is all the more remarkable considering it flopped hard at the box office.