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WEXLER: There is a simple rig which
our gaffer on "THE THOMAS CROWN
AFFAIR" referred to as our "Institu¬
tional Lighting" which saved a lot of

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had brackets made up, just long bat¬
tens of wood with a socket every foot,
in which we could mount #2 mush¬
room-type photofloods. The grips and
electricians would go in about an hour
beforehand and
the ceiling.
shoot.

just fasten

Then

them to

we'd move in

and

The rig does essentially what

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QUESTION: What do you consider
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and director?
WEXLER: When

a

cameraman

ap¬

proaches the photography of a scene
he has his own ideas of how it should
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scene

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hard to do since a sauna bath doesn't
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any steam

lighting

the

in

scene

it.

I

thought of

entirely

with

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a good idea, but I wanted to fry it.
So I got together with the Art Director
and had a bracket made into which I
could insert five

150-watt red mush¬

room bulbs-and that's all the lighting
I used.

I wasn't sure Norman would

like it, but I wanted him to see it as
an accomplished fact, ready to shoot.
It was a great relief when he saw it
and thought

it

was

marvelous.

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