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Halation

Halation is the action of light surrounding some object as if making a halo. It is caused by the blurring of light around a bright area of a photographic image, or on a television screen.

Halation is the action of light surrounding some object as if making a halo. It is caused by the blurring of light around a bright area of a photographic image, or on a television screen.

William Branham's campaign team used a Houston photograph that was the result of halation. Branham claimed that this effect on the black-and-white photograph was the "Pillar of Fire".

This process was described in a September 1931 issue of the Jeffersonville Evening News.