On Location with Shafts Big Score 1972

Описание: On Location with Shafts Big Score 1972
Starring Richard Roundtreee
Directed by Gordon Parks
Director of Photography Urs B. Furrer
1st Assistant Director William C. Gerrity

I was a college film student at New York Institute of Technology, when I met up with the films publicist William Burrel at a film screening, and he needed someone to drive him around to the different New York locations for the Shaft film and of course I said yes.

I shot this footage on the set with a Sony Reel to Reel Video B&W recorder. For this upload I had to fade out the music that was played on the set because of copyright restrictions.

This was also the first time I was ever on a motion picture sound stage.
Whats fascinating about this adventure was I never got to talk with most of the crew members, but over the next decade I would meet up and become friends with everyone I watched working that day.

After I graduated school I went from a Gofer, Production Assistant and later a member of the Director's Guild of America as an Assistant Film Director.
Take note of the 1st Assistant Director William C. Gerrity, who I would soon work with a dozen or more films over the years.

Hollywood Reporter Notes:
William C. Gerrity, the acclaimed assistant director who took to the gritty streets of New York City to work on the 1960s ABC series Naked City and the 1971 film The French Connection, has died. He was 86.
Gerrity, the recipient of the DGA’s Frank Capra Achievement Award in 1983, died Nov. 15, his family announced. He left California in 2006 and was a resident of the Del Tura community in North Fort Myers, Fla.

Gerrity’s first job in the business was as assistant director to Elia Kazan on A Face in the Crowd (1957), and he went on to work for Sidney Lumet on Stage Struck (1958) and That Kind of Woman (1959); for Arthur Penn on Alice’s Restaurant (1969); for Herbert Ross on The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) and Play It Again, Sam (1972); and for Alan J. Pakula on Klute (1971).

I worked with Director of Photography Urs Furrer on "To All My Friends on Shore.

Urs B. Furrer, a leading cinematographer, died of a heart attack Saturday while shooting an industrial film in Detroit. He was 41 years old and lived in Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

Mr. Furrer's credits ranged from films like “Desperate Characters,” starring Shirley. MacLaine and “Where the Lillies Bloom,” to such box‐office hits as “Shaft” for Metro‐GoldwynMayer and “Seven‐Ups” for 20th Century‐Fox.
His television films included “To All My Friends on Shore,” the story of a family determined to escape from the ghetto, produced by and starring Bill Cosby, for CBS. It was filmed on location in Norwalk, Conn., CBS “Sports Spectaculars,” many ABC “Wide World of Sports” shows and numerous specials with Dick Cavett, Hal Holbrook, Hugh Hefner, Duke Ellington and others.
Mr. Furrer also produced documentaries for the United States Information Agency, the major television networks and many large corporations. He received a New York City Chapter of the Television Academy Award for “outstanding program achievement” in 1970.

Mr. Furrer, who was born in Indonesia of Swiss parents, studied abroad. He began his photography career as a youth. He came to the United States from Zurich in the late nine‐teen‐fifties and later became a naturalized citizen.
Surviving are his widow, the former Maureen Carroll; four children, Fintan, Trevor and Michelle and Urs Furrer Jr.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Furrer; two brothers, Frank and Edward, and a sister, Annmarie Buchi. Notes from a New York Times Article

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