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O N C E U P O N A T I M E … I N H O L L Y W O O D | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 2 3 site. For that, I turned to Ed Strang's company Trio to paint the landscapes and building backings. The masterwork of set decorator Nancy Haigh and her team completed these western worlds. My other major worry was the practical Los Angeles streets and boulevards that needed to be taken back to 1969. They needed to be found right up front in the schedule for the sake of city approvals and permitting. Just building on top of existing storefronts is an arduous task, as structural engineers need to sign off on how much weight these original buildings can take. I scouted almost every afternoon with Quentin for the first four weeks.. Quentin would jump in the van each day and pop in a KHJ radio CD, he had the entire D F year of 1969 KHJ radio in day-by-day recordings. We would be listening to '60s music, then all of sudden, a newsflash would come on saying "Sirhan Sirhan just entered the courtroom for the first day of the Kennedy assassination trial," then back to the DJ and music. We listened to sequential days for months of scouting. Quentin loves to immerse everyone into the timeframe of the picture. He is lucky enough to own his own theater, The New Beverly, which was under renovation while the film was being made. Old sofas were placed in the seating area and Tarantino would screen films from 1969, mostly LA based, for cast and crew every weekend in preproduction. It was a fantastic way to see the city for costumes, D. LANCER WESTERN TOWN BUILDINGS. DIGITAL RENDERING BY NATHAN SCHROEDER. E. LANCER WESTERN STREET WITH PAINTED BACKING. F. LANCER STREET BACKING. PAINT ELEVATION. E