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CHANNELING EUDORA
by David Bomba, Production Designer
"I did not have an Art
Director or any Set Designers,
just my own arm waving and
pencils."
A. Eudora Welty's photo
HOME BEFORE DARK.
The cornerstone of
David Bomba's research
for the film.
B. & E. Photos by
Dorothea Lange.
C. Sharecropper's shack,
Mississippi. Photo by
Tamio Wakayama.
D. Photo is from the
author, Hillary Jordan,
of the novel. The
girls are the author's
mother, Anita Kirkwood
Jordan and her aunt,
Gay Kirkwood Stanek.
They are the basis of
the McAllan girls in the
novel and script.
Photo by David Bomba in
the Mississippi Delta on
his drive to New Orleans.
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