“The Soul of a City…
Her Glory Stripped! Her Passions Bared! Her Heart Wide Open!
Actually Filmed on the Sidewalks of New York!
Mark Hellinger’s Naked City!
65 Years Ago Today… “Cinema 16 Plans Private Showings For Membership…”
PM Daily, March 19, 1948
70 Years Ago Today… “How to Make Your Own Movies on a Shoestring.”
PM Daily, March 19, 1946
Words by Louise Levitas
“How to Make Your Own Movies on a Shoestring…
… Miss Deren broke free when she started to make her first movie because she didn’t like the kind of Hollywood pictures she was seeing. And she hopes the story of her experiences with a $300 Bolex will influence any readers with film cameras to break away from the Hollywood idea of movie making, too – for instance the idea that you need a lot of money and equipment to make a picture.
It cost Miss Deren $260, for example, to make her first movie, Meshes of the Afternoon. This was in 1943…
…The field is wide open for new ideas in movies, Miss Deren says: try it yourself.”
And Weegee did (I could be wrong, but I thought he started making movies several months later, in 1946)… A possible influence and/or inspiration?
65 Years Ago Today… “Tough Guy Gets Bubble Bath…”
PM Daily, March 18, 1948
“Tough Guy Gets Bubble Bath: Edward G. Robinson does his best to keep a stern face as he undergoes a buble bath in a movie scene yesterday. Robinson’s new film, All My Sons, opens at the Loew’s Criterion on Mar. 27th.”
Naked City… Picture Filmed on N.Y. Streets…
Naked City
“Barry Fitzgerald (in straw hat) questions a patrolman upon his arrival at the apartment of a murder victim. Curious onlookers surround then in the scene from “The Naked City,”
the late Mark Hellinger’s final production released through Universal-International Pictures.”
(The character on the lower right corner, holding a 4×5 camera, looks like, and might be Weegee…)
Journey Into Light… Fellig was a Zellig!
Journey Into Light 1951
“The Story of a Man Who Turned His Back on God!” Starring Sterling Hayden and Viveca Lindfors…
Standing in the shadows… The only actor looking at the camera… Was the photographer Arthur Fellig… Playing a “Skid Row Bum…”
66 Years Ago Today… “PM readers consider this newspaper a real friend.”
March 17, 1947
“What a big Difference Character Makes.”
66 Years Ago Today… “getting married…?”
Weegee Daily… March 14, 1943… Boy from the Richelieu meets girl at the Stage Door Canteen…
PM Daily, March 14, 1943
Boy from the Richelieu meets girl at the Stage Door Canteen…
PHOTO BY WEEGEE
Weegee Daily, March 14, 2013
Boy from Jekyll & Hyde startles girl on sidewalk in front of the old Stage Door Canteen…
216 West 44th St. sign on wall…
PHOTO BY CEEGEE
“Stage Door Canteen” is more than wartime nostalgia that dredges up disposable, propagandistic ditties with an attitude of serious fun. It is an informative piece of history that remembers the first Stage Door Canteen, a hospitality center created by the American Theater Wing in the basement of a Broadway theater at 216 West 44th Street, where celebrities and servicemen could mingle. On any given night it could accommodate 3,500 people. Alcohol was not served.” (from the NY Times)
This is the man nobody knows…
“This is the man nobody knows… a killer on the loose… in Mark Hellinger’s Naked City.”
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