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[dir. HITCHCOCK, Alfred] Strangers On A Train
California: Warner Bros, 1950
1p. call sheet on Warner Bros headed paper. Typed entries, with pencilled additions. Very faint creasing, but very well preserved.
ORIGINAL CALL SHEET FOR THE FILMING OF THE CLIMACTIC CARNIVAL SCENE IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951).
A single sheet of paper, printed on only one side, but providing a wealth of information about the filming of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic denouements.
We learn that one of Hitchcock’s classic sequences was shot (or partly shot) on 5 December 1950, at the Rowland V. Lee Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California; that the first call that day was 3pm — a split day, to facilitate a night shoot; and that the film’s two stars, Robert Taylor and Farley Grainger, were called to shoot the climactic carnival scene that evening, with Ruth Roman and Leo Carroll on standby to shoot interiors if bad weather intervened. And we also learn that a Mr. Ralph Moody played the role of ‘Seedey Man’, and that the film’s Second Assistant Director couldn’t spell ‘Seedy’.
Call sheets are the mayflies of film production, obsolete after twenty-four hours and only ever kept by mistake. A very rare survivor, and from the climactic scene of a Hitchcock classic.
[dir. HITCHCOCK, Alfred] Strangers On A Train
California: Warner Bros, 1950
1p. call sheet on Warner Bros headed paper. Typed entries, with pencilled additions. Very faint creasing, but very well preserved.
ORIGINAL CALL SHEET FOR THE FILMING OF THE CLIMACTIC CARNIVAL SCENE IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951).
A single sheet of paper, printed on only one side, but providing a wealth of information about the filming of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic denouements.
We learn that one of Hitchcock’s classic sequences was shot (or partly shot) on 5 December 1950, at the Rowland V. Lee Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California; that the first call that day was 3pm — a split day, to facilitate a night shoot; and that the film’s two stars, Robert Taylor and Farley Grainger, were called to shoot the climactic carnival scene that evening, with Ruth Roman and Leo Carroll on standby to shoot interiors if bad weather intervened. And we also learn that a Mr. Ralph Moody played the role of ‘Seedey Man’, and that the film’s Second Assistant Director couldn’t spell ‘Seedy’.
Call sheets are the mayflies of film production, obsolete after twenty-four hours and only ever kept by mistake. A very rare survivor, and from the climactic scene of a Hitchcock classic.