Los Angeles's Bunker Hill by Jim Dawson

Author:Jim Dawson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

In Buster Keaton’s Three Ages (1923), director Eddie Cline prepares a shot from the top of the Hill Street terrace steps above the south end of the Hill Street tunnel. The house behind them was at 134 North Hill Street. Bison Archives .

Of course, the effectiveness of on-location filming didn’t discredit the value of studio sets if they were well designed and properly shot. Two early classics of the film noir genre— The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Big Sleep (a 1945 film with scenes added in 1946)—were filmed on Warner Bros soundstages that respectively recreated San Francisco and Los Angeles. As a rule, however, looking back from a twenty-first-century perspective, American crime movies shot on location in the 1940s and ’50s tend to hold up better today than their stage-bound contemporaries. As film noir historian Foster Hirsch put it in his seminal The Dark Side of the Screen, studio sets were “deliberately lacking the fullness and density of a real city.” They were abstractions of rooms, corridors and streets that may have served the mood of the picture but were otherwise unconvincing, unless dazzling acting and crackling dialogue created enough misdirection to make them real.

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