Faking rain

[Stephen Frizza]

Hollywood uses milk (yes, milk) in the movies to make rain visible!

We didn't use milk when shooting the final battle scenes of the matrix. We made it rain with water heaps and heaps of water.[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7li9SG7zebU&feature=fvw[/YOUTUBE]

 

[John Koehrer]

Whether or not anyone here would scratch their negatives you're discussing a photo that's 100 years old nad it wasn't uncommon for the photographer to do that.