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Mar 20 15 8:32 PM
The Batman of Gotham wrote:Some friends here-- and some oddly-thinking others privately -- have clung to the erroneous Bizarro World logic that certain production photos from DRACULA must have been especially staged, rather than representative of scenes being filmed. That is, the director (Browning, Melford, or J. Pismo Clam) decided not to film a certain scene in the script, but instead had an entire soundstage dressed and lit for the sheer joy of posing a couple of actors to get unwanted and rather undramatic still photographs. Would that be A. Pismo Clam's brother?- GJS
Some friends here-- and some oddly-thinking others privately -- have clung to the erroneous Bizarro World logic that certain production photos from DRACULA must have been especially staged, rather than representative of scenes being filmed. That is, the director (Browning, Melford, or J. Pismo Clam) decided not to film a certain scene in the script, but instead had an entire soundstage dressed and lit for the sheer joy of posing a couple of actors to get unwanted and rather undramatic still photographs.
It would indeed. Jose Gonzales-Gonzales Pismo Clam made the 8mm versions of his elder brother's major flicks for years, designed for the Spanish-speaking home video market. Unfortunately, his work was 70 years ahead of the curve and languishes in a refrigerated film vault in La Jolla, California, awaiting his long-overdue fame and international damnation.
"Joe Clam" (as his few friends called him) damned Universal to his dying day for using tape splices on his 8mm versions instead of more stable glue splices. This was verified by his mother, a court reporter and stenographer, with whom Joe lived until they both passed away. There are those academics who argue that Joe's specific condemnation of Universal's tape splices has been grossly misinterpreted, and that what he actually said to his mother was, "I don't like Scotch tape!"
He did, however, make sure his cast posed on sets of some other movie entirely, to make ticket-buyers think the actors were in a real movie.
While making the Esperanto version of brother Alfredo's PRC classic A MILLION BUCKS FOR DUCKS, Jose took his stars Beppo Manfredi and Julietta Coaxialcable over to the Selznick lot to take advantage of some picture which had a big special effects scene (see below). As a result, his foreign language 8mm version, UNA PATERNA PETITE POR MEEPMEEP, earned twice as much as big brother A's original. Which was nothing, anyway. I hope this is clear. After all, I value the high esteem of being considered a "film historian."
(You see? Sometimes studios put actors in shots which aren't even in the movie!)
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