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Page 4 Empath, September 6,1979 T h e r e B < (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) employment. George Schaeffer’s last two movies were the 1978 made-for-TV-movie “First You Cry,” starring Mary Tyler Moore, Anthony Perkins, and Richard Crenna, and the 1979 television movie “Blind Ambition” with Martin Sheen, based on the novel by Jo h n Dean and filmed in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Schaeffer’s main stars are Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, David Dukes, and Trish Van Devere. While they are n o t quite household names, they are nearly that. Undoubtedly, the distinction is one o f many between a major film p roduction and a made-for-television movie. If you had been down in St. Mary’s this summer, and happened down to the Dove’s mooring spot, you would have witnessed a vast array o f pre-colonial dressed ladies, pilgrims, and ragamuffin sailors lounging in the shade between film takes. The short, round little man running and jumping all around in a big blue floppy h a t was the director. Miss Ramsey, who is also Assistant Dean o f the School o f Arts a t New York University said the production would have to deal with “ logistics problems,” when creating the storm scenes for the Dove. Since the Dove had to be towed o u t in to the open waters o f Chancellors Point, there would be the hassles of organizing wiring and generators, and moving the crew about while on the water. Filming was also at the mercy o f airplanes, choppers, noisy Volks-wagons, and gawking sailboats which frequently broke the sound and sight lines. There is no way of explaining orange sailed Lasers in a seventeenth century film. For special effects in creating the storm scenes, which are the major action o f the movie, the film crew used some unexpected equipment. To gust up some proper wind for the storms they brought in a wind machine. It looks like an old fashioned room fan; the variety with the head th a t turns from one side o f the room to the other, only this one is much bigger. The fan blade is made o u t o f a wooden airplane propeller. To create rain, overhead piping showered water down upon the ship with all the simulated fury The storm wa are produced a fro n t end 1 b o a t’s deck. T on pontoons, storm scenes, replica o f the built by a co Miss Ramsey s make distant sible. Maybe make waves fo The screenp Lee Barrett, going massive dollar budget television melo plo t conflicts into one hap When I read t with a secret Statehouse), cussing their i New World. 1 ster, portraye a fugitive fro o f his heretica a worry preser the voyage at pilgrims are lo; livestock onto Speedwell, por ship, Adventuri ton, N.C., th emerge. The « ship’s captain J tells them the women, childre The crew want “ pukestockings forces them to well docks in tl introduced to tangle develop pilgrims and Standish, porti is the philand played by Trisl his ever roamin David Dukes and Trish Van Devere Cinematographer wii
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Title | Empath, 1979 September 6 |
Date | 1979-09-06 |
Year | 1979 |
Masthead | Empath |
Geographic Coverage | United States -- Maryland -- Saint Marys City |
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FullText | Page 4 Empath, September 6,1979 T h e r e B < (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) employment. George Schaeffer’s last two movies were the 1978 made-for-TV-movie “First You Cry,” starring Mary Tyler Moore, Anthony Perkins, and Richard Crenna, and the 1979 television movie “Blind Ambition” with Martin Sheen, based on the novel by Jo h n Dean and filmed in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Schaeffer’s main stars are Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, David Dukes, and Trish Van Devere. While they are n o t quite household names, they are nearly that. Undoubtedly, the distinction is one o f many between a major film p roduction and a made-for-television movie. If you had been down in St. Mary’s this summer, and happened down to the Dove’s mooring spot, you would have witnessed a vast array o f pre-colonial dressed ladies, pilgrims, and ragamuffin sailors lounging in the shade between film takes. The short, round little man running and jumping all around in a big blue floppy h a t was the director. Miss Ramsey, who is also Assistant Dean o f the School o f Arts a t New York University said the production would have to deal with “ logistics problems,” when creating the storm scenes for the Dove. Since the Dove had to be towed o u t in to the open waters o f Chancellors Point, there would be the hassles of organizing wiring and generators, and moving the crew about while on the water. Filming was also at the mercy o f airplanes, choppers, noisy Volks-wagons, and gawking sailboats which frequently broke the sound and sight lines. There is no way of explaining orange sailed Lasers in a seventeenth century film. For special effects in creating the storm scenes, which are the major action o f the movie, the film crew used some unexpected equipment. To gust up some proper wind for the storms they brought in a wind machine. It looks like an old fashioned room fan; the variety with the head th a t turns from one side o f the room to the other, only this one is much bigger. The fan blade is made o u t o f a wooden airplane propeller. To create rain, overhead piping showered water down upon the ship with all the simulated fury The storm wa are produced a fro n t end 1 b o a t’s deck. T on pontoons, storm scenes, replica o f the built by a co Miss Ramsey s make distant sible. Maybe make waves fo The screenp Lee Barrett, going massive dollar budget television melo plo t conflicts into one hap When I read t with a secret Statehouse), cussing their i New World. 1 ster, portraye a fugitive fro o f his heretica a worry preser the voyage at pilgrims are lo; livestock onto Speedwell, por ship, Adventuri ton, N.C., th emerge. The « ship’s captain J tells them the women, childre The crew want “ pukestockings forces them to well docks in tl introduced to tangle develop pilgrims and Standish, porti is the philand played by Trisl his ever roamin David Dukes and Trish Van Devere Cinematographer wii |