Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: FJ-HRN-1755

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00:00:11 7.33	B-Roll: The Cast of “The Sound of Music” with photo.
00:00:39 36.33	B-Roll: Photo, “The Sound of Music”
00:02:59 176.33	B-Roll: Photo, “The Sound of Music”
00:03:49 226.33	Sound Bite: Gregg Kilday After just six days of negotiations, the Directors Guild of America has emerged from meetings with the producers to announce that they have reached a tentative agreement. Although the directors’ current contract doesn’t run out until the end of June, the directors have always traditionally negotiated well in advance of the end of their contract. What they’ve accomplished apparently in their negotiations is to secure formulas for residual payments for both internet downloads and for streaming media on the internet, two key points that the Writers Guild has also been pursuing in their so far unsuccessful negotiations with the producers.
00:04:45 282.33	Sound Bite: Gregg Kilday Well essentially now the directors uh and the producers have forged a template that could be used in contracts with both the writers and the screen actors whose own contract runs out in June…. It’s not clear at this early moment whether the producers will be prepared to offer the writers the exact same contract. Uh there still may be a need for negotiations uh between producers and writers, but uh the key issues that the writers were looking and that also concerned the directors and the actors are that formulas could be arrived at that guarantee payments for online media. Uh in effect in making its deal with directors, the producers have said, yes, we agree, you have a right to payment when your work goes on to new media, uh and so they will be willing now to discuss that uh with the writers and and the actors. One of the issues that lead to the breakdown of the writers and producers talks last month was that in addition to those core questions of payments for internet use of…. One reason that negotiations broke down between writers uh and producers is that in addition to those core issues of payments for internet use, uh the writers also had a couple of side-issues on the table uh such as uh the fact that they want to see their contracts extended to cover reality TV writers and animation writers uh, they also wanted a clause that allowed them to observe uh other union strikes. Uh now there are folks, even folks within the Writers Guild that consider those subsidiary issues, so the pressure now on the writers now will be to take those issues off the table to concentrate on the core internet uh formulas, which the directors have already established with the producers.
00:07:23 439.33	Sound Bite: Gregg Kilday Well the negotiations are a big coup for Gill Cates, uh the director who headed up the negotiation committee, and who also is serving as producer of this year’s Academy Awards. Uh and obviously he very much wants to ensure that the show goes on uh now there will be pressure on both the writers and the producers to resume negotiations, presumably if those negotiations get going again even if they’re not concluded uh by February 24th, the day of the Oscars. Uh it does open up the possibility now for the show to go on without any kind of the disruption that affected the Golden Globes.
00:08:23 499.33	Sound Bite: Ellen Harrington – director of exhibitions for the Academy of Arts and Sciences This exhibition is called casting a shadow a creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film uhm it’s a collaboration with North Western uhm University and Block Museum and its an exhibition that the academy is showcasing a large portion of our collection that has to do with Alfred Hitchcock as well as some other items coming from the British film institute and some other collectors. Primarily, the idea behind casting a shadow is to show that Alfred Hitchcock was one of those directors who really used the auteur theory to talk about how his creativity and his vision for the film was the overarching element in creating the movie that he, everything kinda sprang from his head totally formed and he really didn’t need you know actors and all these other people who were really distractions and when you come to see the exhibition. What you’ll really discover is that he was a incredibly collaborative artist, and he had department heads in production design, costume design, the screenwriter, uh the collaborator to the studio, and publicity, that he worked with very intensively and uh, all of the sketches and the memos, and the film clips and other items that we have on display, really explore how Hitchcock, despite his public image, was really somebody who invited all kinds of input from his creative team.
00:10:02 598.33	Sound Bite: Ellen Harrington – director of exhibitions for the Academy of Arts and Sciences Robert Boyle is an incredible production designer who at 98 is nominated four times to the academy awards and is somebody who collaborated with Hitchcock many, many times over a lot of years and was the production designer on The birds and North by Northwest, and he is somebody that has been so important to film history and Academy history, he has an amazing collection of his own artwork, and the work of other production designers, and those are on deposit at the academy library so he’s someone who has not only been a great film artist but he’s given back to the film industry for so many years, he’s taught at the AFI, he’s just and he’s a lovely guy, I mean he’s somebody that everybody who’s worked with him is just so delighted to know him, so I think that the academy chose very wisely this year in giving Robert Boyle the academy award this year the Honorary Oscar
00:11:04 660.33	Sound Bite: Ellen Harrington – director of exhibitions for the Academy of Arts and Sciences The other exhibition we’re opening tonight is with Douglas Kirkland photography is called freeze frame which is based on a book he’s published, uh the show has 125 celebrity images taken over 5 decades from 1960 up to the present, and he’s a guy who has literally shot every major star, uh in every decade he’s been on over a 100 sets of really significant movies so when you see his work you just realize that this is you know the last 50 years of motion picture history in the work of one person and he is a brilliant photographer, his work is just so composed and shot in a way that connects so much to the actors or the filmmakers who are in the photo that you just feel like you’re getting incredible insight into Hollywood and the magic movie making.
00:12:14 730.33	B-roll: Picture of a spa then a bad pan to picture of woman in sunglasses. Shot of three paintings/pictures. Shot of picture of a young Drew Barrymore, tilt down to other pics of man drawing, picture from a party scene. General shot of people. Back to Drew Barrymore, pan to party. Shot of paintings/ pictures on the wall pan to party. Picture of Sidney Poitier. People looking at pics. Hitchcock picture on the wall. Picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Picture from a movie – Jeanne Moreau as herself in Alex in Wonderland. Picture of Indian with director.
00:18:50 1126.33	B-Roll - General shot of gallery. Shot of life size Oscar. More general shots of gallery and people drinking. Back to Life size Oscar.
00:21:37 1294.33	B-Roll – Picture of old man with glasses. More pictures on the wall. Shot of man looking at gallery. General shot of people looking. Again, CU picture of Indian with director.