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the store intimately and recognized every detail. His parents had met there. There would be no film about Bayard Rustin organizing the March on Washington without recreating the March on Washington. In reality, the physical details of restaging the event for an Art Department were not complex: scaffolding, folding chairs, large speakers, erosion fencing and many, many posters. History for Hire already had the famous podium and we had it on hold. One specific challenge came in locating a proper green- and-white-striped period canvas tent. Andrea Kubala-James, the Art Department coordinator, made it her mission to find one and pulled it off. The complexity came, naturally, in dealing with the location, the National Park Service and the bomb- sniffing dogs assigned to all set dressing, props and equipment before we could do anything. Shifting information kept shifting the tent placement under the Washington Monument; final word was that it could not impede the view from The White House to the Jefferson Memorial. The restrictions of shooting at the Lincoln Memorial, particularly for our period, eventually forced us to build the steps in a parking lot at our stage in Pittsburgh—with blue screens and VFX surrounding. It was so cold when we shot them that a layer of ice coated the entire thing and had to be dealt with. By contrast, when we shot additional scenes at the actual Memorial, the following August, the health and safety monitor clocked the temperature coming off the white marble at one hundred thirty degrees. The hundreds of metal folding chairs burned the hands moving them while summer lightning storms had the crew scrambling to tarp everything, running for cover and turned our tent into a true DC swamp the night before the shoot. We also had to contend A. THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. SET PHOTO. B. LINCOLN MEMORIAŁ STEPS BUILT IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE PITTSBURGH STAGE. SET PHOTO. C. MARCH ON WASHINGTON STAGING TENT. PRODUCTION STILL. D. MARCH ON WASHINGTON STAGING TENT. SET PHOTO. B A D C