Below, on the street, a milkman whistled. A dog barked. The sun continued to rise, indifferent as ever, on a city that would never know how close it had come to understanding its own shadow.
Another noteworthy technique was the use of shadows. In one scene, Hyde’s grotesque silhouette is cast against a wall—a visual trick borrowed from German Expressionist theater (several years before The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ). This shadow play emphasized the inner monstrous self lurking beneath civilized skin. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde 1908
The fog lifted on the morning of April 8th, 1908. The newspapers called it the Miracle of Marylebone—a pale, watery sun that turned the city the color of old bone. Below, on the street, a milkman whistled