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SMC Pod #214: Casablanca: A case study of how a Studio Team Built a Masterpiece
1942's Best Picture winner CASABLANCA, made at Warner Brothers, is ultimately the best evidence one could produce for how the old studio system of the 1920's through the 1940's was set up to occasionally produce a masterpiece that could not have been made any other way. Defying the auteur-centered way we often appraise movies, CASABLANCA really was a team effort with critical contributions from writers, the producer, the composer, the cast, the director, the production designer, the cinematographer. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill using amazing books like Round Up the Usual…
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