More Work for the Forthcoming French flic - The Artist

I met the Production Manager of The Artist, today. And I'm fully armed with the facts for once. The film's name is: The Artist. It's about a silent screen movie star. The car, pictured a few days ago is a prop Bugatti. Not a real Bugatti. The set building and painting is getting done and she invited me back to get some more photos next week. I promise to do that. Ah! - It's not an HBO production. It's a motion picture for the French film market, being made in Los Angeles California. Go Figure!

Silent Movie Studio Entrance

Close Up of the painter at work

This is along Lillian Way, south of Santa Monica Boulevard and north of Melrose Avenue.

Paladin - a film equipment company

The truck delivered some tripods and other stuff to set lights on. It was a hectic morning at Red Studios





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Scene from Battleship, Vintage Car and Cute Women

Dateline: Wednesday 27 October, 2010. Place: Selma Avenue and El Centro Avenue. Scene: From the forthcoming CBS feature: Battleship. This scene, involves a car crashing with a dump truck. What many of you don't know about movies is that each scene, no matter how short, can take hours to set up and then, if everything isn't perfect, it must be done all over again until it is perfect. As your Hollywood Rounder always wants to show you all that is vibrate, beautiful and fun in Hollywood California, he strayed up to this film set. But, even he cannot wait around for hours to get the "just right" shot. So, without more fanfare folks:

Camera crew far left, dump truck in background

Immediately before the director called: "Action".

Immediately after the director called: "Action".

This car is going to be seen in a HBO film. Someone I spoke with said it's a film about a silent movie. At least that's what I was told, but I'm starting to think, someone is pulling my leg. It's a prop car. It has a seat belt, so it may have an engine, too.

Above is a painter and I will show you the results of her craft, soon. Two days later, the wooden boards are being plastered and I'm hoping that Friday or Saturday will be some acting.

Nice Shoes!

Still life. Girl feeding parking meter on Larchmont Blvd.


Still life. Girl with coffee cup. This candid shot was the best I could do. The subject was very uncooperative at both smiling, and keeping her eyes open.


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Pucker Up! You Gleeks and Kiss the BreadstiX' Lemons

Life Hands You Lemons?

While standing in line at the supermarket today, a woman came up as next in line behind me with this bag of lemons. I first said to her: "not a balanced diet" and she replied: "we do what we can" and then I got talking to her a little and she said this is a bag of lemons for the TV show Glee and that these are props for the next BreadstiX scene.


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