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).
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.)
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Date: 2019-01-24 05:43 am (UTC)From: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.)