Posts from Peridot in thread „Classic Western Movies- Photos by lasbugas & others“

Thanks for sharing these wonderful images, they are truly beautiful.

If one might be so intrusive as to make inquiry - Ringo, sir, what does one do with a set of lobby cards? Are they suitable for framing, or are they kept in a portfolio-type display?

Just curious...and sort of lusting for those Rio Conchos ones in spite of the bilious green jacket Richard Boone is wearing...

As far as I remember from photography classes, the only colour film available was slide film. Transparency film was expensive to print to paper. All professional photographers used black and white film, even those who were on film sites for publicity purposes.

They shot in B&W and the images were hand-coloured without being able to resort to the finished product (the film) because it wasn't yet a finished product. (Technicolor itself involved the use of a red film, a blue film and a yellow film, which were combined in processing to produce the onscreen images.) In the B&W photography notes were taken as to the colour of the items worn, hair and eye colour of the subjects of the photos...but great artistic license was taken at times.

Forgot to mention, The Shootist. Again.

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I love these photos .
Who could scrutinize the usual format of the device for shooting these photos ?

I love the photos, too.

Nevertheless, one must protest the colour of the jacket/buckskin Beloved Boone is shown wearing. That particular shade doesn't do him justice, no matter how popular it was at the time (and it was very much the New Look and the New Colour at the time, 1964).

*goes to look at film footage* It appears to have been buckskin. Perhaps it wouldn't read well enough in buckskin? My favourite bit is when all three men get their shirts off later on in the film, but I digress...

Las Bugas, thanks for all the lovely Rio Conchas lobby cards. Awesome!

This was my first Randolph Scott film, and what a treat it was to have Scott and Richard Boone together Boone was in top form as the not quite 100% evil bad guy. It was easy to feel sympathy for the poor choices he must have made in his life that led him down the road to this juncture. Budd Boetticher directed this film and it pulls out every stop.

It was during the filming of The Tall T that Scott told Boone of a script he had received for a Western series. Scott said he was too old and too rich to do a television series but that it might be right for Boone. Boone thought about it and called his agent and asked to test for the part. He screened well and the rest is history. Richard Boone become Paladin. Thanks, Mr Scott.