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down the street

far

could

had

Jim Halsey, doubling the bad

lights out in
the back hitting and bouncing on
walls. Fortunately, I had fast lenses,
and working at 500 is like having 10

guy,

drive through

We had

see.

or

as

as we

PAR

some

12 footcandles."

taking readings for
night shot, Glouner told his oper¬

an
named Bert

cameraman
was

ful friend and he

was a

helped

kid. We

was a

were

wonder¬
me out

working

time and he said, 'Well, you
gotta go Jimtown on the lens/ and I
asked, 'What's Jimtown?' He said,
one

'It's wide open.

open town
nora

I

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There was a wide
called Jamestown in So¬

lenses. It

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'Whatever the

hit it.' "

A series of recent gang

shootings in

some

caused

areas

of the location
according to
gangs around,
couple of police

concern,

Glouner. "We had
so we

had to have

officers with

us

a

all the time and

of the guys were

watching
everybody else. Maybe that's
why there was no drinking on the
set. Generally there's somebody
back there sipping on a brew or
snorting a little something, but
these guys were clean."
some

out

for

Don

Birnkrant,

headed the second unit
team. "Don

ASC,
camera

doing added stuff
because we were going rather slow
and it became prohibitive for us to
was

do the second unit ourselves

as we

had

planned," Glouner explained.
"So I got Birnkrant to come in and
help Jophery Brown, who is a very
good stunt coordinator. I'd worked
with Jophery on V and some other
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things. We did all the walking and
talking stuff with the real actors
and they did all the second unit
action. They shot a Cadillac and a
new

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lieved that the secret is to make a
the way it's supposed to look,

once

in

the Mercedes

a

bit. We

way and
while you can get some

a

pretty stuff.
"We did three

a

serial director. Bert
when I

a

"We used their spotlights and a
couple of our lights. I've always be¬

not like it's lit. It's safer that

"go Jimtown."
there was

legend in the
business. His uncle was "Breezy"
Eason, the great second unit and

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"Years ago

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bassador Hotel," Glouner recalled.

After

a

a blind wall."
Several other unusual lo¬

teriors

one

-

hospital in¬

in the warehouse in

the clinic at

Palmyro Street, another
Hospital out at Eldredge, and in Carabella we used a
real hospital that has some earth¬
quake damage. We have a sequence
at

the Lakeview

with

child and, what with the

a

child labor laws, they got him for
two hours for some
night shots.

They

gave us 15 minutes to light an
ambulance coming in at night, and
the child

running down an
hallway. We did it and it
was
wonderful
lights flaring,
people and action - and we did the
whole thing in 15 minutes! We shot
at Lindsay Studio in Valencia,
where they have a standing hospi¬
comes

enormous

-

tal set.
"Next

day/' Glouner

con¬

tinued, "the producer came to me
and said, 'Richard, I've got to talk to

All the transfers of the stuff
Scoey are wrong - I can't see
Scoey and the walls are popping
out!' I called the lab and they said
the negative was very good and if
there was a problem they were the
ones at fault.
They redid it and he

you.

with

came

back and said, 'It's wonderful.

Whatever

change

you're doing, don't
thing.' Images can get
up in transfer if someone

a

screwed

doesn't watch his work while he
makes

a

phone call; the machine
points and goes to

takes the hottest
the walls."

Production

difficulties

aside, Glouner feels that Beckman's
Place is a strong picture with great
potential. "It was interesting: just

good old hard photography done
well."

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