A backstage look at the job of the motion picture art director.A backstage look at the job of the motion picture art director.A backstage look at the job of the motion picture art director.
Photos
Dana Andrews
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ronald Colman
- Self - edited from 'Late George Apley'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Joan Fontaine
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- …
Ann Harding
- Self - edited from unidentified film
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Rita Johnson
- Self - edited from 'The Big Clock'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Charles Laughton
- Self - edited from 'The Big Clock'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
George Macready
- Self - edited from 'The Big Clock'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Dorothy McGuire
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- …
Ray Milland
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- …
Gregory Peck
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- …
Jack Stoney
- Self - edited from unidentified film
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Otto Lang(uncredited)
- Writer
- Arthur V. Jones(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough technically a documentary, professional actors Harry Carter and Charles Tannen play the Art Director's Assistant and the Assistant Director, respectively.
- ConnectionsFeatures In Old Chicago (1938)
Featured review
Our impression of an Art Director: "Hey Art, move over there!"
ALTHOUGH MANY OF those in a typical audience would consider this to be somewhat b-o-r-I-n-g, there is much to recommend it. Rather than having the usual comedy short or musical variety being presented in order to "warm-up" the audience, this short film serves in giving us all (everyone) the opportunity to go behind the scenes (backstage, if you will) and see how an unknown name and face give us what we all take for granted in designing the look and therefore the success and mood of the scenes that make up our movies.
IN ITS CRDITS it lists the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences as the production company and Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox as being the distributor of the short. Being a production of an industry inside group, the movie would certainly run the risk of being sappy, maudlin and overly self-congratulatory (ever see the Oscars show?). But these pitfalls are avoided and the result turns out to be much better than one would expect.
IN THE FINAL analysis, what we have here is a cinematic lesson in one reel; which makes one appreciative of those who provide the nuts &m bo0lts of the picture business. They rarely get any recognition, a shortcoming that the film does its best in attempting to correct.
IN ITS CRDITS it lists the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences as the production company and Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox as being the distributor of the short. Being a production of an industry inside group, the movie would certainly run the risk of being sappy, maudlin and overly self-congratulatory (ever see the Oscars show?). But these pitfalls are avoided and the result turns out to be much better than one would expect.
IN THE FINAL analysis, what we have here is a cinematic lesson in one reel; which makes one appreciative of those who provide the nuts &m bo0lts of the picture business. They rarely get any recognition, a shortcoming that the film does its best in attempting to correct.
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- redryan64
- Dec 6, 2016
Details
- Runtime7 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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