1946HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKING
The work and responsibilities of the Art Director on a movie set. Filmmaking
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Reel opens. B&W with narration. People clipping hedges on exterior of house on a movie set, looks real
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| 01:00:12 12.36 |
Slow pan left reveals a set being built on stage - the interior of a fancy home with a curved staircase. Behind the scenes of filmmaking with narration
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| 01:00:32 32 |
Further pan left to another room in the home on set. A large chandelier hangs in the living room. Men, the "Art Directors" looking at blueprints. People in bkgd standing on ladders, decorating the room
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| 01:00:57 57.92 |
Tenements in East side of New York City, row houses, a wagon in the street filled with goods for sale with children playing around the wagon, people sitting on the stoops in bkgd
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| 01:00:59 59.78 |
Giant "fashionable" home on Long Island with a pond and ducks
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| 01:01:02 62.82 |
Farmhouse in the midwest. RV Trailer parked in yard.
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| 01:01:07 67.43 |
Scene outside a bar in San Francisco's Barbary Coast of the past. Men follow the fancy gals walking down the street past a bar
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| 01:01:16 76.18 |
Man sitting at large desk working in office. Narrator unseen talks about the Art Director's job, analyzing the script to determine the proper background. Creative ingenuity is most important. Same man at drawing desk, drawing plans
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| 01:01:46 106.91 |
Nighttime Fancy estate or mansion. Horse drawn carriage going by the Southern Colonial mansion past camera
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| 01:01:58 118.19 |
Movie set mimics "Siam" (aka Thailand) with exotic architecture
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| 01:02:08 128.72 |
WS New England farmhouse with sheep grazing
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| 01:02:13 133.02 |
Movie set modeled after a quaint Midwestern street with peds, antique cars, storefronts
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| 01:02:15 135.93 |
Mexican village scene, small town with women doing laundry outside in the street, oxen pulling wagon
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| 01:02:24 144.71 |
Man pulling books from a shelf - narrator unseen talks about the research on the part of the Art Director to make scenes look realistic, man's face overlays open architectural books from the past. Same man studies Louis XXVI pillars and Regency period architecture in books
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| 01:02:52 172.66 |
Photos in a book of a Royal dance hall. Recreated by art director on a movie set including the realistic costumes worn by the dancers
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| 01:03:02 182.56 |
Periods of time Art Director's must study. Tudor home, Victorian Era, Jacobian, living room of Victorian or Georgian era. Movie scenes and sets from the periods including exact furniture and costume replications of the time period involved
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| 01:03:26 206.77 |
Clips of movies from the Early American era. The homes, furnishings and costumes look real. Unseen narrator states there were thousands of letters asking for plans of these authentically replicated Early American homes
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| 01:03:46 226.58 |
Art deco set - 1926. Art Deco home, grand staircase, Art Deco furnishings, office
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| 01:04:20 260.95 |
Fairy tale sets, couples dancing women in tulle ballroom gowns
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| 01:04:32 272.15 |
Somber set, dark foreboding home
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| 01:04:42 282.11 |
Art Director looking at sketches and fabrics. Sketch artists drawing at drafting table, pan in to sketch of home, cut to the home miniature model
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| 01:05:20 320.94 |
Men in office studying the miniature home model and various sketches
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| 01:05:35 335.23 |
Actual movie set, set decorators setting up furniture, drapes and hangings
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| 01:05:51 351.44 |
Shooting a scene, an actress walking down spiral staircase wearing a gown, cameramen filming, the Art Director consulting with cameraman and directors
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| 01:06:18 378.2 |
Man sitting at desk smoking a cigarette and contemplating. Secretary comes in and hands the man a stack of papers
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| 01:06:32 392.36 |
Clips of scenes an Art Director is asked to recreate: Sandstorm in a desert, tropical downpour, captured Japanese outpost in the South Pacific being bombed, the Chicago fire with animals and people running for their lives
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| 01:07:02 422.32 |
Fade to dark. The End
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end reel
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