Zorro (1990)

When doing this you want to be careful that the scene is dressed to make it seem as if it were truly night-time. For instance, making sure outdoor lights are turned on, using night-time cricket sounds and making sure there aren't any birds flying by. (It's hard to see birds at night!)

Sometimes though, what is captured by the camera is beyond control. In the supposedly night-time scene where Zorro is on the rooftop with a telescope watching Ricardo Cortez leave, you can see two birds flying behind him! Oops! Edit

This nifty trick was also used in a MacGyver episode that aired in 1985 entitled, "The Gauntlet." Season 1, Episode 4. In the Opening Gambit, MacGyver must escape from a locked room with a top-secret map. He uses the map the same way Zorro used his cape!

Zorro is much the same type of inventive man of science as MacGyver. Here is one instance where the same ingenious trick worked well for both! The only difference is that Mac wanted out of a locked room and Zorro wanted in! Edit

HAMLET

O, I die, Horatio;

The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:

I cannot live to hear the news from England;

But I do prophesy the election lights

On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;

So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,

Which have solicited. The rest is silence.

[Dies]

This most likely a parapharse from a verse in the New King James version of the Bible where King Solomon speaks of the injustices he saw in the court room, just as Zorro sees the injustice of the Alcalde hanging Victoria without a trial on circumstantial evidence.

Ecclesiastes 3:16 (Injustice Seems to Prevail) Moreover I saw under the sun: In the place of judgment, Wickedness was there; And in the place of righteousness, Iniquity was there." Edit