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Robert Taylor Incessant Smoker Death Valley Days Set Old Tucson Arizona 1968 #3 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Robert Taylor Incessant Smoker Death Valley Days Set Old Tucson Arizona 1968 #3 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Robert Taylor (!911-1969) was the first major Hollywood movie star I ever photographed. I was working at KVOA TV in Tucson, Arizona in January 1968... more
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Robert Taylor (!911-1969) was the first major Hollywood movie star I ever photographed. I was working at KVOA TV in Tucson, Arizona in January 1968 when the news room got a call that "Death Valley Days" was shooting at the newly built sound stage at Old Tucson. The host of the show,Taylor, would also be acting in the episode.
It wasn't until a few months later that we began shooting the 16mm news film in color. Since I covered the movie beat I raced out of the dirt parking lot with the station's Bolex and my 35mm Mamiya-Sekor still cameras. The still pictures would be for me.
The Bolex made a subtle, whirring sound when running. So I shot a 100 feet roll, or around 2 minutes 40 seconds, several yards from the lit set. Shooting while a scene is filming is prohibited as the sensitive mikes could pick up the sound of your camera.
Moving closer I spied the still handsome, but faded Taylor. A chain smoker he was puffing away on a cigarette, which he did constan...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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