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N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 9 E D I T O R ' S N O T E Past, present, future. B Y D A V I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R This issue highlights the range of periods and the types of research needed to meet the needs of each production. Of the eight projects featured in this issue, three of the designers needed to recreate times past, three are set in the present, and two require visions of the future. These combined visions are a representation of the work that goes on in every Art Department, refi ning the world of the characters and translating the requirements of the script into a series of specifi c places and images. Period research touches every project. Spider-Man: Far From Home needed to create the classical Venetian architecture found in that city. Ad Astra, though set in the future, relied heavily on recent examples of space technology in order to anchor the look in reality. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood took great pains to create a nostagic view of Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, and Motherless Brooklyn used the architecture from the golden age of New York City as a metaphor for beauty lost to progress, going as far as recreating the tragically destroyed original Pennsylvania Station as a key specifi c image that brings the world of the fi lm to life. A. A RESEARCH IMAGE OF THE ORIGINAL PENNSYLVANIA STATION, RECREATED BY BETH MICKLE IN MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN. A