Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is a courteous man who likes Jane Austen's novels and earthy Russian proverbs. His favorite version of his favorite proverb before he walked out of the Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...
...what he saw, Pagnol (The Baker's Wife, The Welldigger's Daughter) asked to take some color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot it over again in Rouxcolor. When he releases the color film next September, he expects to make "screen history...
...taught me how to shoot a sexy dame singing a song and stuff like that." Welles has spent the past six months touring Italy, mostly vacationing. But he tossed off Cagliostro, a film biography of the great 18th Century charlatan, in between an audience with the Pope, an interview with Togliatti, and writing occasional pieces for the New York Post. "I've never seen what I wrote in print," he says. "It was like writing in sand...
...cars weave through the downtown traffic, spin along the wide boulevard around the bay. Filipinos have adopted some other symbols, too: jukeboxes blare U.S. tunes by day and neon signs glow in profusion at night. In the once-gutted Great Eastern Hotel, new robin's-egg-blue elevators shoot up to a cool, spacious ballroom...
...films. All horses except the hero's and the villain's are picked for their nondescriptness; wheeled back & forth in front of the camera, five of them do the work of 50. In the same way, extras are multiplied by frequent changes of hat. Serial units frequently shoot 125 scenes, up to 18 minutes of finished film, in one day. Average for an A picture: two minutes...