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How U.S. movies are made. Camera and microphone are wheeled in – Antique Print

How U.S. movies are made. Camera and microphone are wheeled in, 1943? — historic photograph
How U.S. movies are made. Camera and microphone are wheeled in, 1943?. Historic photograph from the Movies & Film collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with How U.S. movies are made. Camera and microphone are wheeled in, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rather than a finished scene, this print captures the behind-the-scenes labor of setting up a movie shot, with a camera and a microphone being wheeled into place. Black Star, the New York photo agency that produced it, was known for candid documentary pictures published in magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. The series title, Portrait of America, suggests the photographers were recording American industries at work, and the likely date of 1943 places the picture in the busy wartime years of Hollywood production.

Created / published1943?
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesBlack Star photo. Part of Portrait of America, no. 120.
SubjectsMotion picture industry--1940-1950. Motion picture devices--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,163 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166630

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