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Special Effects: Norman Dawn creates earliest techniques
Click image to enlarge. Norman Dawn. Card 5, June 1907. Special effects in film are most often associated with monsters and space aliens, explosions and gunfire. While such features certainly fit into...
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Costume: “Tom Sawyer” hat proves too much of a distraction
Magazine photograph from 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 1938, with Tom wearing a hat in a scene that was later cut from the film.The choices made by a costume designer can reveal much about a film...
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Writer: “Shakespeare in Love” screenplay shows Tom Stoppard’s edits
Click image to enlarge. Early draft of the screenplay for 'Shakespeare in Love' by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, 1998.Of all the elements of filmmaking, the screenplay is arguably the most important....
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Cinematography: The financial effects of Ingrid Bergman’s beauty
Director Alfred Hitchcock frames Ingrid Bergman in a still from the set of The art of cinematography goes far beyond the simple recording of a scene or event. It is a creative and interpretive process...
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Publicity: From painting to poster
Finished film poster for 'Kidnapped'The star system emerged around 1910 when film producers began noting the public’s preference for individual actors. People wanted to know who the “Biograph Girl” was...
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman plan Hitch’s final film
Behind the scenes photograph of Alfred Hitchcock drawing a storyboard for 'Spellbound'; ca. 1945 Except for the actor, no other position in filmmaking is as much discussed or as little understood as...
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Exhibition: “Slack Nite” keeps it informal
Click image to enlarge. Interstate Theaters Year Book: Slack Night, 1941 Early motion pictures were presented in arcades and amusement parks. Later, they were shown as short “acts” in vaudeville...
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“North by Northwest”: The Chase Across Mount Rushmore
Contact sheet of research photos for 'North by Northwest' taken by Ernest Lehman. Alfred Hitchcock directed a string of masterpieces in the 1950s including Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window...
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Actor: Gloria Swanson discusses DeMille, acting technique in audio clip
Film still from 'Sunset Boulevard'The contributions of the actor can be seen throughout the Making Movies exhibition. The primary and most visible interpreter of character is the actor, who interacts...
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Art Director: Set design for boathouse in “Rebecca”
Click image to enlarge. Set still of the boathouse set from 'Rebecca,' 1940.The art director, in creating the environment that a character inhabits, reveals much about a character’s personality through...
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