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Re: Archives in the movies



This sounds familiar... We used to circulate books and clippings but don't
any more, having lost too much.  At some point, a set dresser borrowed
several years of architectural magazines (we don't bind or spine-label them,
so they'd look like a private collection) to line the walls of an
architect's home office.  After the set was struck, *fortunately* the
borrower was alert enough to check on it the same day and retrieved the
magazines from the trash.  The set builders apparently assume whatever is on
the set was bought and paid for and is of no further use after shooting is
done.

(I read a few years ago that a builder from Lithuania or another former
Soviet republic burst into tears at the trashing of high-quality lumber from
a set, since such lumber was almost impossible to obtain at any price back
home, while here in Hollywood they could throw it away...)

Misha Schutt, not particularly proud to be involved in the entertainment
industry...
Burbank Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Webb [mailto:rwebb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:16 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Archives in the movies

.... a production
company came in several years ago, checked out books from I
believe the Salt Lake Public to use as background in some scene,
and when they wrapped shooting and left town,  dumped the books
in the trash.....

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