| WHAT THE AUDIENCE DOESN'T SEE - A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE LONDON COLISEUM Coliseum Tech Crew Working Fast | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6796 |
| Catalog #: | 446399 | |
| Clip Number: | 446399-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 291 | |
| Timecode: | 01:21:44 - 01:23:50 | |
| Location: | London, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1920 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/THEATER: Behind the Scenes ENTERTAINMENT/THEATER: Stagecraft LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London | |
| Description: | WHAT THE AUDIENCE DOESN'T SEE - A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE LONDON COLISEUM Backstage scenes as the moving stage and complex lighting systems of the Coliseum are operated. Very good story on theatre techies - excellent quality & cool shots. London MLS group of men pulling hand over hand on ropes hanging from above. MS same: 2 guys on stool or platform, 2 others below them all pulling same ropes. MCU technician (probably just offstage, he's facing camera but looking past it toward stage); on wall beside him are various controls etc. He flips a lever. Revolving stage (we see here the part of the cylinder underneath the stage floor; a worker standing by ladder on this lower layer goes riding past. Shot with a corner of bottom part of the cylinder slowly turning. Onstage (shot from DS left), crew moving flats into place to quickly build set; these guys all wear knee-length jackets. Other guys run onstage bringing chairs. Stage manager steps back, examines scene. Very cool shot of worker scurrying about like a mad scientist quickly pulling levers and turning wheels along a wall covered with more wheels and levers; pan rt. along this wall where another man is also darting about, then leans over at rt. to turn wheel round and round. Shot of top lights - 3 rows of lightbulbs against black BG - getting brighter. theatre, theater, stagecraft, revolving stage, skilled workers, machinery, backstage, behind the scenes, techie | |
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