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Originally Posted by Norme
... There is a life-size statue of "The Duke" in the main terminal that's 9 feet tall! ...
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Did they use a special lens when filming the Duke?
OK, another story. When activities involving different size people are filmed, there is an effort not to show how short some of them are, e.g. Alan Ladd, Audie Murphy. For long shots, often camera angle can mask these "shortcomings". In a love scene, they might be stood up on a box to even things out. This box has a special name:
I took a couple of courses from Rod Serling when I was studying communications at Ithaca College in the early 70s. He succumbed to complications on the table during bypass surgery the very next semester. He was a semi-local boy, from Binghamton, and his wife's family had a cottage on the West shore of Cayuga Lake,next to which they built their contemporary summer home. One class convened daily on Rod's back deck, with Genny Creme Ale. Anyway, he told a story about being on an awards show with Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart--all of whom dwarfed the 5' 4" Serling. He said, " There's nothing more humiliating than hearing the director, over the studio intercom, bark out, '
Bring out the Man-Maker!'"