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BAILEY ON ROSSON ON ASPHALT

The excellent cinematographer John Bailey (click here for credits too numerous to mention) was also a fine film theorist. Witness this unusually perceptive break-down of the shooting style that John Huston and his cinematographer Harold Rossen (click here for credits too numerous to mention, although I will offer-up ‘Wizard Of

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February 24, 2026 No Comments

JUDY GARLAND IN TWO TAKES

It took three days to shoot the scene in which Judy Garland performs Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin’s haunting and highly unusual (in form) torch song ‘The Man That Got Away’, for the 1954 version of ‘A Star Is Born’. Above is a nifty split screen demonstrating two of the

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July 25, 2025 1 Comment

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