Great "Behind the Scenes" shots from classic films. Do you have any more?

Of course I do.

Hey Creature from the Black Lagoon ! Watch those hands !

 

Great thread!

 

Excellent pics, many thanks.

 

I truly enjoy these pictures. I would appreciate any others that anyone would take the time to add to this thread...

 

Here are a few (2001, Moby Dick, The Getaway, Bullitt, The Graduate):

 

You are welcome Steve. I have many more Universal monsters movie "behind the scenes" pictures at home that I can post later on tonight, but I was afraid to clog up the thread with monsters. I find the pictures fascinating but I'm not sure that others do.

Boy, Boris liked his tea and cigarettes, huh? Almost every picture I have of him as Frankenstein's monster includes a smoke and/or tea.

 

Great Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi candids:

 

I was told by one of the optical guys at Modern Film Effects that they did all the Star Wars titles, including the opening and closing credits. Once Lucas got ILM totally up and running in San Rafael, his people did pretty much everything.

Here's another shot of Kubrick "on the moon":



Not a lot of people are aware of the fact that Kubrick often operated the camera on his films. I'm looking forward to Doug Trumbull's upcoming documentary on the making of 2001 -- I bet he has some amazing stories to tell.

 

OK. Thanks for the encouragement.

Apparently Lon Chaney Jr. like to bring his dog Moose to the set so...

 

Boris reading his script.
The creatures need to dance.
Lon Chaney Jr. has to cool himself off with an icebox between takes.
Lon Jr with costar Evelyn Akers.
Jack Pierce working the wolfman hands

 

A real color photo of the wolfman on the set of The House Of Dracula.
Boris with director James Whale.
The wolfman with Bela Lugosi Jr. (That kid got around)
A studio composite shot of Universal stars. I think they got the monsters head wrong. This sounds like the start of a joke: So, Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and the Frankenstein monster are standing around....
Boris's birthday celebrated on the Son Of Frankenstein set.

 

The way the heads sit on the bodies in that shot of The Graduate (post #32), doesn't it almost look like a Photoshop job? I know its not, but their heads look strange.

Star Wars pictures in post #36 - is that a stunt Leia?

 

Last batch for the night :
The Incredible Shrinking Man props.
Looking at the back of the Psycho house and down to the Universal monster movies, etc., set. The picture was taken in the Sixties.
Steve, is that set area still there, or is it a parking lot or something now ?

Steven Spielberg (I think) taking a break on the Jaws set.
Two photos from the Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein set.

 

P.S. One more cool thing you guys might not have seen:

Here is the only known actual color footage of Boris Karloff in his Frankenstein monster makeup, taken on the Son Of Frankenstein set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3f-zm2jyFo

 

Adrienne Barbeau in "Cannonball Run"
Dennis Hopper "Apocalypse Now"
Tom Savini "Creepshow"
Sean Young "Blade Runner"

 

Wilt Chamberlain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Andre The Giant on the set of "Conan the Destroyer"
Mel Gibson as Mad Max in "Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)

 

Angie Dickinson

"Howard, my eyes are up here."

 

Here are some behind-the-scene photos from Jaws:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2078388_2285261,00.html

 

Let's resurrect this great thread!


Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)


Ridley Scott and Ian Holm (Alien)


William Friedkin and Linda Blair (The Exorcist)


Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson (Chinatown)


Cybill Sheperd and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)

 

I don't understand why this thread isn't at least 20 pages long.
At any rate, here's one of my favorite behind the scenes shots from "This Island Earth"
I don't know why, but it reminds me of the "Ed Sullivan Show".........