The Screen Director (1951)

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Original Title: The Screen Director

Release Date: March 12, 1951

Runtime: 9 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

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.

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Cast

Richard L. Bare

Stagehand on Telephone (uncredited)

Frank Capra

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Phyllis Coates

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

John Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vivien Leigh

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Curtiz

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Roy Del Ruth

Self (uncredited)

Paul Douglas

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

John Ford

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Creighton Hale

Theatre Manager (uncredited)

Elia Kazan

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Burt Lancaster

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ida Lupino

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gordon MacRae

Self (uncredited)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leo McCarey

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Harold Miller

Actor (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Man in Audience (uncredited)

John Pickard

Jack - Assistant Director (uncredited)

Ruth Roman

Self (uncredited)

John Wayne

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Tennessee Williams

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

William Wyler

Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

Jane Wyman

Self (uncredited)

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