Question

What is double body technique used in movies?

Answer 1

A body substitute replaces the credited actor of a character in any recorded visual medium in shots where the character's body is shown but the face is either not visible or shown indistinctly, or in shots where the image of the credited actor's face is joined to the image of the body double's body. Body doubles are most often used for shots involving a nude scene , although this is becoming less common as many actors are now sometimes contracted to do nudity. [citation needed ] More specific terms are often used in special cases; a stunt double is used for dangerous or sophisticated
sequences . This is in contrast to a stand-in who replaces an actor for non-filming purposes such as scene arrangement and lighting adjustments.
In some productions, this technique (use of a double whose face is not seen on camera) is used where one actor is credited as playing more than one character. If both characters (played by the same actor) appear on camera in the same scene, the credited actor plays the character whose face is seen, and the double plays the other character (usually seen only from the back). An example of this is the identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show , back view double played by Rita Walter.