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Directing a Movie

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Three people are standing in front of an automobile parked next to an airplane at Pennc...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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"The Goddess" Production Still

Date: 1915
Description: Cameraman Jules Cronjagger and director Ralph Ince shoot a scene with Earle Williams (as Tom Barclay) and Anita Stewart (as Celestia, the Goddess) in the V...
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Alfred Hitchcock on Set

Date: 1940
Description: An overhead photograph from behind of Alfred Hitchcock sitting and drawing a storyboard on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is surrounded by...
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Joel McCrea and Alfred Hitchcock

Date: 1940
Description: Joel McCrea and Alfred Hitchcock are seen with crew members on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." An unidentified man stands behind McCrea makin...
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"Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: A behind the scenes photograph of the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Joel McCrea is on a platform high above a group standing below. Alfred Hitch...
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Walter Wanger, Neville Brand and Leo Gordon

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Description: Walter Wanger talks with actors Neville Brand and Leo Gordon outdoors on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." A large movie camera on wheels is on ...
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Walter Wanger on Set

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Description: Walter Wanger is seen talking to a man on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." A large microphone boom on wheels is directly behind them. They are ...
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Production still for "Destination Moon"

Date: 1950
Description: Executives and crew for the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon" look into the rotatable space ship interior set. The tall, white-haired man in gla...
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Citizen Kane Set

Date: 1941
Description: Orson Welles directs Agnes Moorehead in a scene from the film Citizen Kane. Welles is sitting on the camera crane behind the camera operator. The ca...
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Shirley Clarke Directing "The Cool World"

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Description: Shirley Clarke directing a scene from "The Cool World" on a city sidewalk. Her back is to the camera, and she is standing giving directions to the camerama...
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Shirley Clarke and Cameraman

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Description: Shirley Clarke, wearing a hat and holding a cigarette, is leaning on the cameraman to look through the camera lens during the shooting of the film "The Coo...
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"Diamond Handcuffs" Production Still

Date: 1928
Description: Director John McCarthy watching as Henry Sharp films Eleanor Boardman and Lawrence Gray in a scene from the 1928 film "Diamond Handcuffs."
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Ted Moore and John Huston

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Description: Camera operator Ted Moore and director John Huston, possibly at Isleworth studios in England, filming the 1951 film "The African Queen." Moore is operating...
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Crew Filming "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Film crew for the 1951 film "The African Queen," including John Huston, Ted Moore, and Edward Scaife, surrounding a movie camera. They are all partially su...
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Ida Lupino

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Description: Director Ida Lupino on the set of the 1949 film "Never Fear." She is gesturing and talking to an unidentified man. A movie camera is on the right side of t...
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Ida Lupino, Keefe Brasselle and Sally Forest

Date: 1949
Description: Director Ida Lupino is standing on the left, while actors Keefe Brasselle and Sally Forest are sitting at a table on the set of the 1949 film "Never Fear."...
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Ida Lupino

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Description: Director Ida Lupino is sitting at movie camera, surrounded by unidentified men, probably the film crew, on the set of the 1949 film "Never Fear."
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Ida Lupino

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Description: Director Ida Lupino is sitting in a wheelchair on the set of the 1949 film "Never Fear" with her right foot in a cast; her foot is propped up on a block. A...
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William Dieterle

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Description: Director William Dieterle in between a movie camera and light with some of the unidentified film crew on the set of the 1938 film "Blockade." A model ship ...

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