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The Screen Director
The Screen Director
Release: 1951-03-12
·Runtime: 9m
·★ 6.0
Documentary
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
Production Companies
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Harold Miller
as Actor (uncredited)
Tennessee Williams
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leo McCarey
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Ruth Roman
as Self (uncredited)
Phyllis Coates
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Roy Del Ruth
as Self (uncredited)
John Wayne
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Frank Capra
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
John Huston
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Art Gilmore
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
as Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Gordon MacRae
as Self (uncredited)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Curtiz
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Burt Lancaster
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Pickard
as Jack - Assistant Director (uncredited)
Jane Wyman
as Self (uncredited)
Richard L. Bare
as Stagehand on Telephone (uncredited)
Paul Douglas
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
as Woman in Audience (uncredited)
John Ford
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Ida Lupino
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Wyler
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
Vivien Leigh
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elia Kazan
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Mower
as Man in Audience (uncredited)