Here's a terrific shot from the current hit film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, where Quentin Tarantino used the 100-year-old restaurant Musso & Franks for a real Hollywood location. The white-haired gentleman in the foreground is noted DP Bob Richardson (who operates his own camera), and the mic boom operators work for Mark Ulano, one of the top sound people in the world. The light is coming through the giant white muslin sheet on the left, which creates a nice, soft effect to flatter the actors.
Here's an amazing shot of To Have and Have Not at Warner Bros. in 1944, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, along with director Howard Hawks and DP Sidney Hickcox: And below is Busby Berkeley directing Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the “I Got Rhythm” number from MGM’s Girl Crazy, shot in Culver City in 1943. And below is an 1880s London street set built for Paramount’s 1931 production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Frederic March: [All three pics courtesy of the great Thomas Del Ruth, ASC, on Facebook]
Well, it's sitting one of MGM's studio-designed cranes. I think the metal frame wrapped around the actual camera is mostly eye-lights & fill lights for the actors as the camera gets closer.
Christopher Lee; Vincent Price; John Carradine; Peter Cushing. I knew Lee and Cushing.. have head about Price and Carradine but didn't recognize their faces.
David Bowie and Mick Jagger bring out the cake at the wedding reception of Eric Idle and Tania Kosevich (1981)
Larry Linville, in character as Frank Burns (though long after he left MASH) with presidential press secretary James Brady, who was paralyzed in the 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan.