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The opposite of wet-for-dry is dry-for-wet, where a subject filmed on a stage is imposed onto a water backdrop to avoid having to film underwater, thus making it possible for actors to do a scene while also being able to, for instance, breathe.
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== Examples of Wet-For-Dry==
=== Multimedia ===
* Clouds (by means of dye solutions) were frequently done this way before CGI, though in a sense it's all still wet.▼
=== Film ===
* The dance of the Delphi in ''[[
* The Dementors in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' films. Also, in the Half-Blood Prince film, actress [[Georgina Leonidas]] (who played curse-victim Katie Bell) was filmed wet-for-dry for the scene in which she is suspended in the air, so that her hair would look like it was flaring around her head.
* The Ghost of Christmas Past in the ''[[A Christmas Carol|Muppet Christmas Carol]]''.
* The spirits that come out of the Ark in ''[[
* Wet-for-dry was used in a [[Music Video]] for Portishead.▼
▲* The spirits that come out of the Ark in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' were filmed in a tank to get a ghostly flowing effect on their hair and clothes.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Satan Pit" had a Wet-For-Dry as one of the characters floated dead in space.▼
▲* Clouds (by means of dye solutions) were frequently done this way before CGI, though in a sense it's all still wet.
▲* The ''[[
=== Music ===
▲* Wet-for-dry was used in a [[Music Video]] for Portishead.
== Examples of Dry-For-Wet ==
* One of the oldest examples is ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''. There are scenes with actual divers, yes, but other scenes requiring James Mason and Paul Lukas to be seen through the helmets were accomplished this way. ▼
=== Film ===
* Sam's near-drowning scene at the end of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. Also, the drowned ghosts in ''The Two Towers'', those which weren't CGI.▼
▲* One of the oldest examples is ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''. There are scenes with actual divers, yes, but other scenes requiring James Mason and Paul Lukas to be seen through the helmets were accomplished this way.
▲* Sam's near-drowning scene at the end of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* Nearly all the underwater scenes in the film version of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' were actually done with models in a tank filled with air and smoke, because the smoke created the "just murky enough" effect the director wanted.
** Same thing was done in ''[[The Abyss]]''.
* [[Gerry Anderson]] shows beginning with ''[[Stingray (1964 TV series)|Stingray]]'' used dry-for-wet underwater scenes, in which model submarines or marionette divers would be filmed through a narrow water tank containing bubble machines and fish.
* ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
* The underwater scene in ''[[The Spirit]]'' was filmed dry.
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