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Title
Comic is a cinematic corker
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph article dated March 31, 1965 partially reads, "Watching Jerry Lewis make a motion picture is an exhausting experience. The man is uncanny. If you could bottle his energy, you'd have a substance potent enough to rival a small A-bomb. He was shooting his newest film, 'The Family Jewels,' at a service station on Ventura Boulevard in North Hollywood, the day I stopped by to watch him work. He would climb on the boom with the cameraman to set up a shot, hop down, direct the other actors in a run-through, direct himself by watching a television monitor, rewrite dialogue on the spot; control sound effects via a telephone connecting him with the complicated tape playback machine he invented; and practically edit the film as it's shot by use of the television monitor gimmick. This too is a Lewis innovation." Photograph caption reads, "Jerry Lewis checks with sound effects men for a special street noise he needed in a scene shot at a North Hollywood service station. The scene is for Jerry's latest film 'The Family Jewels' which will be released by Paramount later this year."; See image #00127794 for additional photo in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00127795
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d033_f20_i16
CARL0005458360
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/59733
Subject
Lewis, Jerry,--1926-2017
Men--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Actors--United States--Interviews
Comedians--United States
Actors--United States
Telephones
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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