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Our breathless cameraman barely keeps up with director Schaffner as he does a show on
ovd Theater
from start to finish
GLAMOROUS job, you think, being director of an important dramatic program on television? Well, yes, if glamour includes gruelling work, a rigid schedule, few meals at home, getting up at the crack of dawn and going to bed only when the last detail of planning and production has been settled to your satisfaction. This series of twelve photographs cover only the high spots of Franklin Schaffner's routine for putting on an hour-long drama every other week. He works with about a hundred people, puts in far more than the usual forty-hour week himself. Frank once yearned to be a lawyer but got started in summer stock and radio during college vacations, then joined the Navy. He came back in 1946 and became a director of documentary films. Television got him in 1948. He's thirty-one now, and one of TV's veteran directors.
Ford Theater is on the CBS-TV network every other Friday from 9 to 10 P.M. EDT. Sponsored by the Ford Motor Co.
THE START: The script has been decided upon arid the production meetings begin, with script editor Lois Jacoby, producer Werner Michel, the director, Franklin Schaffner, production manager Bob Peyson. Major problems are settled at this first meeting.
SETS : Director Schaffner and the set designer Al Ostrander have discussed the sets, and working models are now ready. With the associate director Dick Saunders (back to camera) they work out details for the large-scale sets to be used on show.
CASTING: The casting director, Marion Roberts, has sent out a call for actors to fit the roles, is ready to submit data on them to the director. To date, Ford Theater has used more than 550 players, ranging from unknown walk-ons to world-famous stars.
WAITING: In answer to calls, actors come in to read for roles. Receptionist Doris Chalmers signs them in, hands out scripts during waits. Although readings are held in the director's office in an informal atmosphere, it's the big chance for many.
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