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Part I
Since this is the thirtieth anniversary of the filming of the now-classic Civil War movie Glory I had been casting about for new material to add to my existing thread and for fodder for Throwback Thursday when I remembered this souvenir photo album from around the time of the film's release. It is untitled, apart from Glory on the cover alongside the image above but inside contains the line This commemorative album is proudly presented by Eastman Kodak Company and another credit, We gratefully acknowledge the photographic contributions of Marie Cosindas, Merrick Morton, and D. Gorton. All images were taken with Kodak film. I saw somewhere an offer for this album which was as I remember available by writing to the Eastman Kodak Company and requesting a copy.
It may seem strange to have still photographers alongside the Panasonic movie cameras on a movie set, but as I have explained before, they are present to capture still images different from the familiar screen captures that can be used for publicity and other purposes. I remember that I hesitated to use these before because: the album they're in is very large, about 10"X15" or thereabouts, so awkward and difficult to scan; some closely resemble familiar publicity photos; and *may* be copyrighted, though nowhere in the album does it say so or warn against their copy, reproduction, or storage as is usual. Unfortunately, my scans are of indifferent quality and by necessity must crop the many full-page photos and the double-page spread. I have also omitted the smallish publicity photos of the cast that were used on posters and VHS/DVD covers. Unfortunately, the subjects were scrambled in no particular order, but I have attempted to place them in a somewhat chronological order as the scenes appear in the movie.
I have referred before to the two gentlemen above, the late Producer Freddie Fields at left and Director Ed Zwick at right, who were the creative guiding lights behind the production.
WHATINHELL IS THIS!?!??? I'm certainly glad to see this was included, because it is likely the ONLY surviving relic of an interesting deleted scene we filmed in a downtown Savannah warehouse that was supposed to show a very young-looking Robert Gould Shaw, center, drilling members of the elite 7th Regiment, New York National Guard in their armory in 1861. Among the historical travesties notice the obviously fiberglass movie "cannon" in the foreground looking like no actual piece of ordnance; the gymnasts in the background fencing and performing various exercises, which in themselves wouldn't be so bad - EXCEPT for the gallery of ladies watching the half-clad men from the above right corner, a definite Victorian No-No! Barely visible standing behind the soldier in the front of the group are Matt Murdzak and myself; the only part of me that shows is the top of my 1850's regulation full-dress shako!
Above, a scene from the Battle of Antietam scene where Matthew Broderick playing then-Captain Robert Gould Shaw is wounded.
This, the first of several photo montages, also shows some deleted or at least minimized scenes from "Boston": clockwise from bottom left the wounded Captain Shaw; Governor Andrew and Frederick Douglass watch as the 54th Massachusetts parades before going off to war; Andrew offers command of the 54th to Shaw; actress Jane Alexander playing Shaw's mother, who along with Raymond St. Jacques playing Douglass were intended to have larger parts and so supposedly refused to allow their names to be used in the credits of the finished film; Matthew Broderick and Cary Elwes in another deleted scene.
Next, Part II - scenes from training camp
Since this is the thirtieth anniversary of the filming of the now-classic Civil War movie Glory I had been casting about for new material to add to my existing thread and for fodder for Throwback Thursday when I remembered this souvenir photo album from around the time of the film's release. It is untitled, apart from Glory on the cover alongside the image above but inside contains the line This commemorative album is proudly presented by Eastman Kodak Company and another credit, We gratefully acknowledge the photographic contributions of Marie Cosindas, Merrick Morton, and D. Gorton. All images were taken with Kodak film. I saw somewhere an offer for this album which was as I remember available by writing to the Eastman Kodak Company and requesting a copy.
It may seem strange to have still photographers alongside the Panasonic movie cameras on a movie set, but as I have explained before, they are present to capture still images different from the familiar screen captures that can be used for publicity and other purposes. I remember that I hesitated to use these before because: the album they're in is very large, about 10"X15" or thereabouts, so awkward and difficult to scan; some closely resemble familiar publicity photos; and *may* be copyrighted, though nowhere in the album does it say so or warn against their copy, reproduction, or storage as is usual. Unfortunately, my scans are of indifferent quality and by necessity must crop the many full-page photos and the double-page spread. I have also omitted the smallish publicity photos of the cast that were used on posters and VHS/DVD covers. Unfortunately, the subjects were scrambled in no particular order, but I have attempted to place them in a somewhat chronological order as the scenes appear in the movie.
I have referred before to the two gentlemen above, the late Producer Freddie Fields at left and Director Ed Zwick at right, who were the creative guiding lights behind the production.
WHATINHELL IS THIS!?!??? I'm certainly glad to see this was included, because it is likely the ONLY surviving relic of an interesting deleted scene we filmed in a downtown Savannah warehouse that was supposed to show a very young-looking Robert Gould Shaw, center, drilling members of the elite 7th Regiment, New York National Guard in their armory in 1861. Among the historical travesties notice the obviously fiberglass movie "cannon" in the foreground looking like no actual piece of ordnance; the gymnasts in the background fencing and performing various exercises, which in themselves wouldn't be so bad - EXCEPT for the gallery of ladies watching the half-clad men from the above right corner, a definite Victorian No-No! Barely visible standing behind the soldier in the front of the group are Matt Murdzak and myself; the only part of me that shows is the top of my 1850's regulation full-dress shako!
Above, a scene from the Battle of Antietam scene where Matthew Broderick playing then-Captain Robert Gould Shaw is wounded.
This, the first of several photo montages, also shows some deleted or at least minimized scenes from "Boston": clockwise from bottom left the wounded Captain Shaw; Governor Andrew and Frederick Douglass watch as the 54th Massachusetts parades before going off to war; Andrew offers command of the 54th to Shaw; actress Jane Alexander playing Shaw's mother, who along with Raymond St. Jacques playing Douglass were intended to have larger parts and so supposedly refused to allow their names to be used in the credits of the finished film; Matthew Broderick and Cary Elwes in another deleted scene.
Next, Part II - scenes from training camp
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