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Filming "The Glass Mountain": During the filming of "The Glass Mountain" in Dolomites, film producer Joseph Janni searched for extras and found peasants who might have been born for the job. Local people inside church. No film studio setting, but a scene "shot" inside a little church at San Fento in the Dolomites. None of these peasants had ever seen a film camera, but all joined in to take their parts as extras for a sequence, Northern Italy

c. 1948
(Polish, 1911–1956)
Poland
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 21.2 x 19 cm (8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 21.2 x 19 cm (8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2018.659
Location: not on view
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Filming "The Glass Mountain": During the filming of "The Glass Mountain" in Dolomites, film producer Joseph Janni searched for extras and found peasants who might have been born for the job. Local people inside church. No film studio setting, but a scene "shot" inside a little church at San Fento in the Dolomites. None of these peasants had ever seen a film camera, but all joined in to take their parts as extras for a sequence, Northern Italy

Filming "The Glass Mountain": During the filming of "The Glass Mountain" in Dolomites, film producer Joseph Janni searched for extras and found peasants who might have been born for the job. Local people inside church. No film studio setting, but a scene "shot" inside a little church at San Fento in the Dolomites. None of these peasants had ever seen a film camera, but all joined in to take their parts as extras for a sequence, Northern Italy

c. 1948

David Seymour

(Polish, 1911–1956)
Poland

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