History goes faster than one thinks it does

[moon_custafer]

TIL I Love Lucy and Murnau’s The Last Laugh (1924) had the same chief cinematographer (Karl Freund— never mind inventing the three-camera setup for tv, he’d already invented the crane shot).

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[pedanther]

It's a less dramatic chronological gap, but "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the pilot episode of Star Trek, had the same cinematographer as Gone With the Wind, and was filmed on the same sound stage.

[moon_custafer]

I’ve recently come to realize that if I watch anything from, say, the late 1950s-early 1960s, there’s a pretty good chance the older members of the cast began in silent film.

Selenak was posting about this kind of thing a while back: https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1314767.html#comments

[sovay]

TIL I Love Lucy and Murnau’s The Last Laugh (1924) had the same chief cinematographer (Karl Freund— never mind inventing the three-camera setup for tv, he’d already invented the crane shot).

I knew about his TV work for some reason, but I always think of him as the cinematographer of Metropolis.

[moon_custafer]

Oh, and apparently he directed The Mummy and Mad Love. This came up because we were watching The Mummy yesterday.

[sovay]

This came up because we were watching The Mummy yesterday.

Production crew are like character actors: noticing their existence is tantamount to summoning them into the next thing you watch. (This statement brought to you by the star of the German silent I just reviewed for Patreon unexpectedly being the best thing in an American WWII movie I was watching strictly for the director.)