RAGING BULL, SUPERMAN RETURNS Among “Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts” Photos To Line Academy Gallery

Brian Hamill. From the film “Raging Bull”. Courtesy of United Artists, 1979.

Beverly Hills, CA – More than 115 images shot on the sets of such films as “Raging Bull,” “Munich,” “You, Me & Dupree,” “Rendition,” “Salt” and “Superman Returns” will be on display in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts,”  opening Friday, September 9, in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery. The exhibition, open to the public, will run through Sunday, December 18. Admission is free.

Shot by 25 members of the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers, “Crew Call 2011” will include photographs depicting the work of numerous, and essential, ‘below-the-line’ craftspeople on a movie set, from animal wranglers, puppeteers, makeup artists, seamstresses, stunt performers and prop masters to grips, gaffers and P.A.s. Several images show how production design and visual effects departments work preparing sets and staging action sequences, and provide glimpses of how the magic of the movies is achieved during long days and nights of shooting.

David James. From the film “Superman Returns”. Courtesy of Warner Bros., 2006.

“Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts” features photographs from Karen Ballard, Claudette Barius, Ron Batzdorff, Phil Bray, Andrew Cooper, François Duhamel, Sam Emerson, Anthony Friedkin, Melinda Sue Gordon, Brian Hamill, Suzanne Hanover, Kerry Hayes, David James, Douglas Kirkland, Rolf Konow, Jay Maidment, Frank Masi, Melissa Moseley, Macall Polay, Andrew Schwartz, David Strick, Suzanne Tenner, Jaimie Trueblood, Merie Weismiller Wallace and Barry Wetcher.

The Society’s previous exhibitions, “Between Takes” and “Take 2” were on display at the Academy in 2000 and 2005.
The Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery, located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and weekends, noon to 6 p.m. The gallery will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend (November 24 through 27).

For more information call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org.

Phil Bray. Electric Raft. From the film “Yogi Bear 3D”. Courtesy of Warner Bros., 2010.

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Rolf Konow. Puppeteers at Work. From the film “Seed of Chucky”. Courtesy of Rogue Pictures, 2004.