Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #98039 This is a behind-the-scenes promotional film for the feature length, major motion picture of the same name, a Western musical drama starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and Jane Seberg, directed by Alan Jay Lerner, all of whom appear in this film but also lend short narrations regarding the production. The following are a few of the shots within: MS's of film crews, grips and electricians and best boys and production assistants and dolly grips (oh my!) setting up equipment in a clearing in the woods during the daytime. Cutaway to MS's of burly male actors singing (yep, singing) like choir boys. Fast editing here, the shoot is in Oregon, the fictional setting is during the gold rush days. Wide shots of the Oregon landscape (thick woods and snowcapped mountains, you know, lumberjack stuff). Looks very much like the High Sierras. MS's of Lerner and male producers in business suits inspecting a scale model of the proposed set to be built in Oregon. They are on a Hollywood soundstage, lighting equipment and ladders and such in the BG. Cutaway to CU's of the building models, then cutaway to tight LS's of the set being built in Oregon, followed by cross-cutting montage of the town being efficently expedited by Hollywood set artists and local Oregon construction workers. MS's of the actors on a Hollywood soundstage during the early stage of rehearsals. Great shots of Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin wearing street clothes and running through the lines, their scripts in hand. MS of Clint and Lee looking, talking and discusing a scene. On set in Oregon. MS of a moustached and costumed Lee smoking a cigarette while sitting quietly on a pile of logs. MS's of the crew deliberating a shot placement. MS of the actors deliberating their motivation. MS of a Panavision 35mm camera being moved to the next shot, pan left as the PA's and secondaries move the camera. Same with the lights. MS of Clint and Lee in costume on set and rehearsing a fight scene (Clint plays the heel, takes the bumps). CU of a large light being turned on. All of this happens during the daytime. Films cuts off and ends.