I came across this May 19, 2017

This is the original background landscape scrim from the 1956 film FORBIDDEN PLANET.

It “was” still around and being used as a backdrop for modeling shoots. I think it belongs in a museum. I’m afraid once the need for it no longer exist, it will be tossed out as trash. 🙁
?EDIT: I did some digging… Forbidden Planet Backdrop @5:35 time mark. Oct 3, 2019 Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8tA-QksbT90

The Art Directors Guild project to save 207 hand-painted backdrops is covered in detail in this part of the Historical Society’s presentation about saving movie history – along with the question and answer session during the evening.

– Arthur Lane (who took the photo and shared it.)

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    I think it also might be the first “Shakespeare but in a different setting” film, being shot in 1956. It’s a loose adaptation of The Tempest. Even the Broadway version of West Side Story came out a year later. The film didn’t come out until 1961.

    Edit: No, that apparently goes to Strange Illusion, shot in 1945. It’s a loose adaptation of Hamlet- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038126/?ref_=ls_t_12