TO GET REALISM
WAYS OF FILM DIRECTORS THE UNFORTUNATE ACTORS Directors have ways and means of making their actors put realism into their acting, as I learnt today on the set of Charles Chauvel’s film, “40,000 Horsemen,” says a writer in a Sydney paper. The leading man, Grant Taylor, and Betty Bryant were doing a scene in which they are supposed to be half frozen, after being caught in a desert thunderstorm. Just before the scene was shot, the two unfortunate actors had to stand still while icy-cold water from a hose was poured on them. When the cameras went into action, Grant and Betty were shaking with the cold. There wasn’t any acting about it, either. In another scene, one actor, “Chips” Rafferty, had to crawl through a swamp. He is wounded, but the agonised expression on his face was not because of the imaginary wound, but because of the very cold water.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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154TO GET REALISM Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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