Picture Show (A thread for interesting photos from the world of movies and TV)*

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Etta Rickles and her son Don

 

Five from this week's selection (FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #532 ):

 

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Greta Garbo, 1968

 

I think that's Tom Keating. It was his newspaper column

 

That is a fascinating article. The man was or became obsessed with eggs.

 

The Hollywood Personal Egg Service That Wasn't - the candler blog

 

Omg
another false egg production conspiracy exposed

 

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Tony Curtis

 

Amazing. Looks like a kid from the sixties.

 

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In this pic, Bernie Schwartz.

 

A rarity for me, this is a recent picture during production of the new Bond film No Time to Die, which I think features the classic Aston-Martin DB5 (but other sources indicate it's an Astin-Martin Valhalla):



I believe there's a Panavision Millennium 35mm film camera on the left side of the car shooting wide, and then a second film camera shooting the driver (all film, no digital on this production). When the budget is $250 million dollars (!!!!!!), it almost doesn't matter what they shoot it on. On top is the actual stunt driver for the car, using a remote steering/braking/accelerator pedal mechanism. They also have lots of rigging around the car for lighting, power, transmitters (so the director can see what's being photographed), and communications with the driver and actors. Pretty amazing system. Of course, they'll also shoot other shots from a distance with an identical car only without all the rigging to complete the illusion.

The credits from the "Behind the Clapperboard" group on Facebook:

Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
Key Grip: David Appleby, Paolo Tiberti & Anders Eide
Grips: Roberto Barbona, Bob Aas Carho, Fridtjof David-Andersen, Miles Gutkin, Jordan Heath, Mike King, Robin Opgård, Steven Skinner.

 

Thanks for sharing. There can't be many productions using film anymore, right? I know Christopher Nolan insists upon it.

 

Here's a link to a list of 2019 features shot on film:

The 27 Movies (More or Less) Shot on 35mm in 2019 | Filmmaker Magazine

Among the more memorable ones:

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Rise of Skywalker
Little Women
The Lighthouse
Marriage Story
Ad Astra
and half of The Irishman

There's a whole slew of 2020 features shot on film (like Spielberg's West Side Story). I think it's a viable option provided you're very well-organized and have a budget above a certain level. Even on a big project, the film stock is going to cost less than the travel and meals. If they immediately scan the film to digital, from then on the editors and other post people just treat it as if it were a digital shoot, so there's no difference from a logistics point of view.

 

Rosanna Arquette on the set of Crash

 

Ooh - er!

 

More now here: FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: FRIDAY NIGHT BOY COOL #533

Here are five:

 

Does anybody remember or have a photography of Gene Hackman taken in Marseille during the filming of French Connection where he is barefoot next to his car whose wheels are missing ? Thanks.

 

Five? Must be inflation.

 

Or my maths is as bad as I suspected. Sunday morning blues, maybe. One more for good luck:

 

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Dr Strangelove screenwriter Terry Southern

 

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George C.'s father

 

The magazine published by the teenaged Leonard Maltin

 

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Rondo Hatton, 1913

 

Here's some terrific shots from the 1979-1980 production of The Empire Strikes Back, a few of which I had never seen before...


Note that Carrie Fisher had no scenes in Norway, but was there just for moral support since the roughly -20°F temperatures made shooting very difficult every day.


Note the VistaVision camera on the right, shooting a really big negative for a later composite (at least I think that's what it was). ILM removed the metal stand for the evil surveillance droid in post.


Audiences didn't get much of a good look at the snow creature that attacks Luke at the beginning of the film. Note the opening in the throat for the human operator inside.


This is the shot where Luke struggles to get out of his crashes ship so he can pull himself up to sabotage the evil AT-AT vehicle above him.


And I believe this is Harrison Ford on his Tauntaun. "I thought these things smelled bad... on the OUTSIDE!"

Pix courtesy of the Crew Stories group on Facebook.