The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Clip: Olympia in yellows...

The Image: I love the 'cellophane' look of these scenes - as usual enhanced with the super-artificial technicolor that The Archers often favoured - a different colour palette for each act in fact.
(Images here:https://film185.wordpress.com/2023/01...)

Hoffman gazes on admiringly wearing Coppelius's magic spectacles, which bring inanimate objects to life - while con man Spalanzani controls the puppets (which Hoffman sees as real!)
And of course, Hoffmann spectacularly fails to notice that Olympia - https://aestheticoftheimageuk.wordpre... - (Moira Shearer) is in fact not a real flesh and blood girl - but a doll, an automaton created by the wicked Spalanzani to lure Hoffmann to financial (and societal) ruin! This is what she really looks like - without being viewed via the magic glasses -- https://film185.wordpress.com/wp-cont...

(Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looked like this: https://www.expressandstar.com/resize...

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