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An assistant director's production archive of Cleopatra

30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

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An assistant director's production archive of Cleopatra

Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963. Comprising: a studio copy of the production schedule "strip board," September 25, 1961-March 24, 1962; a Unit List, June 2, 1962, 20 pp, staple-bound, with minor notations in pen; call sheet dated February 21, 1962, heavily annotated in pen; two studio printed call sheets, September 25 and October 5, 1961.
A collection of assistant director Richard Lang's paperwork chronicling the production of Joseph Mankiewicz's massive historical epic starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Shot in Rome at Cinecittà Studios, Cleopatra was the most expensive film of its era, filmed over a whopping twenty-six weeks. Lang's Unit List provides the film's hundreds of actors' and crewmembers' contact information and he also saved call sheets from key points in the film's production—a printed one labeled "1st Day Shooting" and a largely handwritten one marked "100th Day of Shooting"—plus a 2nd unit call sheet from the second week of shooting.
Schedule: 18 x 50 1/4 in; unit list and call sheets: 8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in

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