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Like his protege Walker Evans, photographer, cinematographer and experimental filmmaker Ralph Steiner (1899-1986) had a keen interest in... more
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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.
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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