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he is genuinely appreciative of such cooperation.
“I suggested that we erect a high parallel behind the Lincoln figure on which to mount the camera, which would enable us to shoot at a down¬ ward angle in such a way as to take in just enough of the figure to make it identifiable and thus establish the lo¬ cale, and at the same time include the artistic columns of the memorial as a framework for the pool and other ob¬ jects that could be observed in the background from this vantage point.
“LeRoy said, ‘Get it!’ And we went to work.”
Biroc employed no ND filters to correct for the sky area in the back¬ ground. “We exposed for the outside objects beyond the memorial and let everything else come through propor¬ tionately,” he explained.
Following the windup of photography in Washington, the company moved on to New York City. Here a lengthy sequence was to be filmed depicting a surveillance routine involving a team of F.B.I. investigators tracking a sus¬ pect as he makes his way through the busy city. In this action the suspect is being “tailed” first by one operative and then another, as he walks down the street, hops a bus, takes the sub¬ way, and finally attempts to lose him¬ self in the crowd at Coney Island when he suspects that he is being followed. The big problem here was to keep “rights” and “lefts” straight so there’d be no trouble in the cutting. While all this was insured by thorough visualization in the pre-production planning then setting it down clearly in the script, invariably when it comes time to shoot on location some changes are made in routines, and it is here that vigilance is required to keep the action going in the right direction, Biroc explained.
Most interesting shooting in New York took place in an old abandoned subway station, which the railway company re-fitted especially for the picture. Turnstiles, the familiar gum vending machines, and a host of other props were brought in and installed to make the station appear as it did a decade ago when the action to be staged supposedly took place.
For Biroc, the cavernous location posed some lighting problems, but it finally turned out that sufficient illumi¬ nation equipment had been brought along to meet the need. For one thing, in this remote location, the company
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