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From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: First Color Films (Oz)
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 12:31:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 12:31:01 1985
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Summary: 

About Technicolor being "discovered in the middle of filming" the Wizard
of Oz:  Something nobody seems to realize is that films are almost never
photographed in plot-order.  Rather, they are assembled as logistics dictate:
when sets are finished, cast scheduled, etc.  Any engineer can easily see
the advantage to this.  It only makes more impressive the ability of good
actors to have their characters change subtly in the course of the film.
See Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone for a good example.

A notable exception to this rule was "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".  I 
remember the director specifically mentioning them taking the unusual
(and expensive) step of shooting (the film) in chronological order to help
the actors out.