Art Direction
The art director did everything, including wardrobe. But what she was really good at was sculpting set pieces. She built the bowling ball rack. We had to dig a pit and then she shaped it with green architectural moss to make the bowling alley.
Jim Taylor
DIRECTOR
Production Design
Some History
If there is one person who did more than any other to demonstrate the importance of art direction in filmmaking, it was William Cameron Menzies (check www.IMDb.com for his credits). For Gone with the Wind (1939), producer David O. Selznick wanted Menzies, who had won the first two academy awards for art direction, to be heavily involved in the preparatory stages so he could plan the whole film on paper. He also wanted Menzies ...
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