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8 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 2 0 Block One earing the start date, there were a couple of sets that were likely to fi lm during fi rst two weeks. ne was the Chancellor Avenue School with the Levin boys' classrooms. The school would also host a 190 election voting seuence. aving excellent research for the 1930s classrooms, the many wall decorations needed were recreated using vintage photos and illustrations sourced from itock. The other possibility was Hahne's department store in downtown ewark, where ess evin takes a sales ob. I began the ahne's department store graphics with a maor set piece. In his plan, ichard oover included a large fi ve-panel mural on ahne's main oor across from ess evin's counter. is inspiration was a 1930s department store mural on painted glass featuring elegant women among ora and fauna. At itock, I found several deco illustrations of such elegantly attired women, along with one landscape that reminded me of the covers of the 1920s magaine Shadowland. With those elements and an assortment of animals to populate the grounds, I created four other landscape backgrounds and composed the illustrations. A deco framing treatment was added, and also a center panel featuring the ahne's logo. The fi nal step was taking these illustrations out of the vector art realm and converting them into paintings. sing Exposure nap Art, I developed a custom oil paint look and applied it to each illustration. Also designed was a 12-foot-wide ahne's logo and art deco pattern friee printed on one-fourth inch milk sign plexiglass to accommodate backlighting. The fi nal touches included small countertop signs, window displays, posters and gift boxes. n the exterior, the store's name was added in as— brone dimensional lettering. The Looming Threat While house hunting in gentile nion, , the evins come to a stoplight beside a German- American beer garden where they're harassed by the patrons for being ewish. It's a key scene in the story with young Philip Levin exposed to anti-emitism for the fi rst time. Adorning the outdoor terrace of the beer garden are bilingual A. HAHNE'S DEPARTMENT STORE MURAL PANELS - FINAL ELEVATION DESIGN & ILLUSTRATIONS BY ERIC ROSENBERG. B. HAHNE'S DEPARTMENT STORE. SET PHOTO BY RICHARD HOOVER. A B