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From ‘The Crown’ to ‘Hollywood,’ Inside TV Directors’ Decisions on When to Use Period-Accurate Film Styles

10.07.2020 - 20:55

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Watchmen,” executive producer and director Nicole Kassell wanted to root events firmly in historical truth.The sequence begins with an African American boy watching a black-and-white film about the first Black sheriff, Bass Reeves. “I imagined the film the young boy is watching was directed by Oscar [Micheaux],” Kassell says. (Micheaux wrote, produced and directed 42 films beginning in 1919.) But the calmness of the ritual the boy experiences while watching the movie is interrupted by violence, thrusting him into the center of the Tulsa race riots. “As we transitioned from the movie to 1921, I wanted to maintain [a] sepia tone so you knew you were still in that period,” Kassell says. “It was such a big period event, and it was true.