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    LF in the movies

    Are there any movies that feature LF photography - especially period movies? I seem to remember a Chinese movie which dealt with the first introduction of photography in China, but can't remember the name. As I read more about early photography I am led to wonder if cinema has ever tackled any part of that history. Documentaries would be interesting suggestions too, but I am really thinking of movies here.

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    Re: LF in the movies

    The only one I can think of is Road to Perdition. Jude Law portrays a press photographer in the late 1930s who specializes in shooting dead bodies. As a side hobby, he kills many of them himself.
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    Re: LF in the movies

    One that I posted about recently elsewhere is the new documentary Man on Wire about Phillipe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center. His collaborator, photographer Jean-Louis Blondeau, is interviewed with a 4x5" Sinar P on a heavy studio stand in the background. He doesn't actually use the camera in the film, but it's an interesting choice on the director's part.

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    While in Chicago one summer, for a little while I was a consultant on a movie TILL THE END OF TIME about Steiglitz and O'Keefe ( Ben Kingsley & Linda Fiorentino). They wanted everything Steiglitz used and did to be authentic and I was to insure that happened. I spent some time collecting equipment and a little time working with Kingsley "in character". Unfortunately, before we got to the scenes where Steiglitz photographed O'Keefe and I had a real role to play, Fiorentino quit the film and the whole production unraveled and the film was scrapped.
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    Re: LF in the movies

    The Grey Fox with Richard Farnsworth.

    Really well done with a turn of the century studio prominently featured as the love interest of Farnsworth is a photographer.

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    "Miss Golightly! I must protest!" - the photographer Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's has a 20X24 view camera in his downstairs studio. LFP isn't really featured here, but plays a cameo role.

    Probably of greater interest to you is an episode of the TV show Kung Fu called The Vanishing Image. The hour-long show features a view camera landscape photographer who is struggling to survive the toxicants of his craft as he dedicates his final days to capturing the American west on film.
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    Re: LF in the movies

    I know there is an old Charlie Chaplin film where there is two instances of LF shooting.


    The first is where Chaplin keeps walking in front of a photographer at an auto race and hilarity ensues.

    The second is where some one rolls their car (sounds familiar) and a press photographer is on scene shooting with what looks like a premo pony.


    It was on at the bar I was frequenting for awhile.
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