Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take went well and now we were back at the first road. It was almost three o'clock. No one talked about lunch, no one could even think about it, for this new shot was going to be murder...
...noon the others had arrived. We were doing the first take of the day: Steven (Tommy) speeds down the highway passing Eleanora (Nora), who is hitchhiking. He gets about a hundred yards past her, does a take, slams on the brakes, skids, shifts into reverse, backs up, picks up Nora and rides off into the distance...
...film this, Tim set up the camera by a stop sign on a small road that intersected perdendicularly with the highway. Tommy was stationed further down the road, within sight of Tim, who waved to him each time he wanted to start a take. Nora, wearing jeans and a Levi jacket, stood across the highway from Tim. Eric, near the camera, held the mike out towards the highway, and Phoebe and I leaned on the rented Dodge station wagon, parked behind the stop sign...
...TAKE was hard. Tim wanted Tommy to wait until there were two cars in front of him before he started down the highway. This created problems: sometimes passing drivers would see the camera and slow down to find out what was going on; or, if there was a car behind Tommy's jeep, there was a possibility of collision at the point when Tommy suddenly lurches into reverse. Meanwhile, the sun kept going in and out of the clouds, necessitating constant shifts in the lens setting...
After noon, it got colder and the humor of the frustrating takes began to wilt. Phoebe, who had been talkative at first, started to withdraw from the group. She stood by the stop sign in silence, clutching her clapboard, waiting for each take to begin. As Tim put it, it was becoming a drag. But at 2 p.m., after 13 takes, the shot was over...