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The Screen Director

Mar 12, 1951

0h 9m

★ 6.0

Overview

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Screen Director Trailers

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Cast

Stagehand on Telephone (uncredited)

Richard L. Bare

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Frank Capra

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Phyllis Coates

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vivien Leigh

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Michael Curtiz

Actor (uncredited)

Edward Biby

Self (uncredited)

Roy Del Ruth

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Douglas

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

John Ford

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Art Gilmore

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