Film homage Dolores Costello George O'Brien Noah's Ark 1928 Ralph Steiner 1929-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Dolores Costello George O'Brien Noah's Ark 1928 Ralph Steiner 1929-2008
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Like his protege Walker Evans, photographer, cinematographer and experimental filmmaker Ralph Steiner (1899-1986) had a keen interest in movies.
Noah's Ark was a late silent effort directed by the Hungarian born Michael Curtiz. Supposedly three people died and one lost a leg filming the drowning sequence in "Ark."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mjtr6V5hCE
There is no record of any remorse on Curtiz's part.
John Ford, in turn, was called "a sadist" by John Carradine who appeared in several of his movies. Ford only played the role of a sadist. He was so upset at the death of a stuntman on "The Horse Soldiers" that he walked off the set.
Curtiz was also brutal to animals as in "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Animal lover Errol Flynn was so upset he complained to the authorities.
Today it is routine to have a credit line that no animals were harmed in the making of a movie.
Steiner made abstract experimental films.
In 1926 it was "H2O."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4muinY8Q9M
And four years later "Mechanical Principles."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5pen3QMgzQ
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