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farthest-out design style that would make sense in the desert. Set Designer Paul Sonski drew up a lush paneled bedroom and hallway, anchored by a massive 100-year-old fireplace salvaged locally; and incorporated the ballroom build's gothic doors, flooring and molding details. I was intent on conveying a rich and intense color palette that would saturate the screen and incorporated pictorial landscape paintings with naughty mythical scenes that were custom- printed onto canvas and then wallpapered to add a layer of texture and complexity on the walls. Lead scenic Jeremy Turley gold-leafed the bedroom moldings and a custom decorative design inset in the hallway paneling by hand. Silent Film Era Nellie LaRoy's first day of shooting at Kinoscope Studios was designed to emulate the silent "poverty row" studios of 1920s Hollywood. Simultaneously shooting is Jack Conrad's epic MGM battlefield scene on an adjacent Hollywood movie ranch. In our design process, the Art Department looked at hundreds of behind-the-scene photographs from the silent era; shooting, construction and general studio life fascinated our own crew. I isolated images showcasing construction's rawness, as what was behind set walls formed a kinetic sculpture. Damien was drawn to even earlier 1910's images of free- standing sets with the shooting crew's equipment in the dirt. That informed the on-screen troupe's scrappy pieced-together circus environment. A. WALLACH BEDROOM RESEARCH BOARD. B. WALLACH BEDROOM IN PRODUCTION. BUILT ON PARAMOUNT STAGE 16. SET PHOTO. C. KINOSCOPE PICTURES DIVE BAR SET. ILLUSTRATION BY JOANNA BUSH. D. DIVE BAR SILENT FILM SET.SET PHOTO. E. EXTERIOR KINESCOPE PICTURES. PRODUCTION STILL. F. JACK CONRAD'S HOME, LIVING ROOM. SET PHOTO. A B C