Film Comment (1978) - Designed for Film

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• magazine article: Designed for Film
• author(s): Carlos Clarens & Mary Corliss
• journal: Film Comment (01/May/1978)
• issue: volume 14, issue 3, page 27
• journal ISSN: 0015-119X
• publisher: Film Society of Lincoln Center
• keywords: Academy Awards, Actors, Albert Whitlock, Alexander Korda, Alfred Hitchcock, Architecture, Artists studios, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, Bodega Bay, California, Chicago, Illinois, David O. Selznick, Design, Dorothea Holt, Ernie's Restaurant, San Francisco, California, Famous Players-Lasky, Film studios, Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited, Grace Kelly, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, New York, Hal Pereira, J.B. Priestley, Jack Cosgrove, Joan Harrison, Laurence Olivier, London, England, Lyle R. Wheeler, Marnie (1964), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Motion picture directors & producers, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Museums, New York City, New York, North by Northwest (1959), Paramount Pictures, Psycho (1960), Ray Bradbury, Rebecca (1940), Robert F. Boyle, Robert Florey, Saboteur (1942), San Francisco, California, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Spellbound (1945), The Birds (1963), Theater, Theaters & cinemas, Tippi Hedren, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Universal Studios, Walter Wanger, Warner Bros., William Cameron Menzies

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Abstract

The Hollywood Art Director, The Museum of Modern Art is recognizing the achievement of the art director, The exhibition, which is on display in the Museum's Auditorium Gallery from May 11 through September 26, focuses on several aspects of film design: 1) the creation of a visual style through the collaboration of director, producer, and art director (notably in films associated David O. Selznick and Cecil B. De Mille); 2) the creation of a studio style (Paramount Art Deco, Universal Gothic, MGM grand bourgeois), which was, more often than not, established by the studio's Supervising Art Director (Hans Dreier, Charles D. Hall, Cedric Gibbons); 3) the personal styles of independent art directors such as Robert Boyle (The Birds), Boris Leven (West Side Story), Dale Hennesy (Young Frankenstein), and George Jenkins (All the President's Men); and 4) the work of the matte artist, the painter/magician who creates, on glass, panoramas rich for wonder (The Wizard of Oz) or ripe for destruction (The Birds).