Yes I love those small historical details like seeing which
shops/fashion/food were popular at the time. Suits and ties and cigarettes
certainly, but
don't forget all the hats! Funnily enough, if a movie theatre shows up, I
always strain my eyes trying to spot the posters. Thank God for DVDs where
you can get a decent paused image (also handy for the tight-sweatered
ladies).
As for technology, not actually a location shot but one of my favourites
is Mike Hammer's cutting edge answering machine in Kiss Me Deadly -
basically a big shiny wall-mounted reel-to-reel tape machine with all the
associated whirring and clunking. I want one.
The further back you go, the more I'm amazed at how cameramen actually
achieved some of the more extreme location shots, given how cumbersome the
early equipment was, and how much light was needed to keep things in focus.
Strapped to cars, dangling off tall buildings, sitting in small boats in
choppy seas. Of course, camera trickery was rife - editing, back projection,
undercranking etc - but not always. I was watching Hitchcock's silent The
Ring over the weekend, where he appears to have placed a camera in a
fairground ride for a brief shot, but then even some of the pioneers from the
very
early 1900s experimented with such things.
Paul
_www.movieposterstudio.com_ (http://www.movieposterstudio.com)
In a message dated 13/05/2009 01:48:55 GMT Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I like that question. Personally I love looking at vintage gadgets such
as old radios, phonographs as well as the cars and bikes. I also love
catching scenes of old theatres themselves especially during the days of the
huge extravagent palaces when everyone went to the movies in suit and tie.
When the theatre was a getaway itself as much as the film. I like to see
the old ice cream shops just as much. I always say I was born in the wrong
time but I know I could never jump in a 'way-back' machine and live then
after living with what I have now. I could live without phones and fast cars
but I really need my internet :-) .
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