Word: taxidermist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like this starts with a field trip," Wilson said. "Once we've decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...
Last week the hard part of the work was under way. Museum cabinetmakers were making sure the beaver case would be dustproof and crackproof. The accessories man was up to his ears in drifts of paper leaves. The taxidermist was trying to decide on an oil to make one of the beavers stay wet-looking (he thought an overdose of Kreml might be the best bet). The electricians were working for a muted, dusky lighting effect. Wilson himself had three months painting ahead on the beaver background...
...doors for a week at a time," Murch says. "Then I'll take a walk and look around vaguely for something to paint. The other day I found a dog's head at a taxidermist's. It was a fox terrier mounted on the wall like a moose." He generally finds what he is looking for in shop windows: "For instance that fish in the show. I'd been wanting to do a fish for years but there were practical difficulties, you might say. This one was smoked. It lasted over a week and a half...
...Meadowbrook! (by Ronald Telfer and Pauline Jamerson; produced by John Yorke) is a bedroom farce that should have been left in the attic. Under his psychoanalyst's orders, a mousy, middle-aged English taxidermist (Ernest Truex) stalks sex on a Connecticut weekend. All the women in the house beat a path to his door-the housekeeper (Sylvia Field), the hostess (Grace McTarnahan) and a worldly lady playwright with heart of brass (Vicki Cummings...
...interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...