SUPP GS Silhouettes

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Silhouettes and Shadowgraphs

Playing with shadows can be done with any age girl. While these activities were designed

for Juniors and above, they can easily be used by Daisies and Brownies as well.

Silhouettes

These were used extensively in the 1930’s by GSUSA to illustrate Girl Scout activities.

Make a silhouette o your head and display it, include it in a card, etc..

Equipment:Strong light

White and black paper

Glue

Attach a large piece o white paper to a solid surace. Place the light so it shines on this surace.

Stand between the light and wall and trace the outline o the head.

Transer to black paper and add your own touches.

Shadowgraphs

Shadowgraphs are little figures cut out o cardboard, mounted on thin flat sticks or strips o

heavy cardboard, and worked behind and flat against a screen covered with a piece o sheeting

or unbleached muslin.

To move head, arms, or legs, these parts must be cut separately and attached so that they

overlap the body. See drawings. Each part is astened with a brass paper astener or bent pin.

To the overlapping part a thread is attached in such a way that when the thread is pulled the

arm, head, or leg will lit and all again o its own weight.

Plain silhouettes are best to begin with and then experiment with color. Tissue paper

or cellphane in bright colors is all that is needed. Cut out the areas to be colored and paste

the colored material over the hole.

For example, a red kerchie on a pirate is produced by cutting out the shape o the kerchie

on the head, leaving a narrow margin o the cardboard all around, and pasting a piece o red

cellophane over the cut out place.

Scenery and Properties for Shadowgraphs

All scenery or properties are cut rom cardboard and tacked to the sides o the rame against

the screen, on the side away rom the audience.



The Screen

A shadowgraph screen may be as simple as an old piece o sheet stretched across a doorway,

with newspapers covering the space above and below the screen.

A permanent screen may be made rom a discarded ull-length window screen. The wire

screening is removed and the lower hal covered by taking a sheet o cardboard over it. The top

is covered with a piece o sheeting or unbleached muslin stretched tight. A couple o flat blocks

o wood are nailed to the bottom to orm a base so that the screen will stand upright.

I your troop has a ull-sized stage as described under “Puppets,” a muslin screen could be

placed over the ront opening.

How to Work Shadowgraph Figures

In producing a shadowgraph play it is important to remember several things in order to have a

good show.

1. The figure must be moved back and orth close against the screen.

2. The actions o the figures should come exactly at the time indicated in the story.

3. The girls working the figures should be careul to keep below the screen, so that their

shadows will not be mixed up with those o the cardboard figures.

4. A better efect is gained i a light that does not make a spot on the screen is used.

5. The words o the story or song should be clearly enunciated.

The holder o the light stands back o the screen at a distance that will produce the best shad-

ows. The room should be darkened as much as possible.

Dialogue (words o the play) or puppets or shadowgraphs may be presented several ways.

Each person may work a figure and do the speaking or that character. One person may tell the

whole story, or a group may sing a song while others work the figures. Or, the audience may be

given a brie outline o the story, omitting the dialogue entirely.



Your Shadowgraphs

To help, you will find our pages o printable shadowgraphs ater this page. The bird, starand dog were taken rom the previous images. Do these first to get the eeling o creating

shadowgraphs. You can see how they go together because o the previous images.

The brownie shadowgraphs does not have more than indication on where to place the brads

or the legs. This is to get you more amiliar with creating your own shadowgraphs.

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