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Satan’s School for Girls, first day of shooting, including schedules for actors and actresses, June 19, 1973. (Courtesy of Chip Hayes)

Satan’s School of Cinema

By Chip Hayes

Winter 2013

During the production process, the collective known as “the crew” is the heart and soul of a film, whether it’s a $300 million blockbuster, a low-budget TV movie, or just another episode of a TV series. Working on set with a talented crew is like being inside a magic act.

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The Vanishing American

By Leslie Parry

Fall 2009

Indian #9’s voice was gassed out of him in a trench in the Argonne Forest. After the war he’d left Chicago and come to California; with no voice, he decided to seek work in the movies. Because of his bulk—broad shoulders, bullish jaw, fists as big as pumpkins—he’d spent the past few months playing bad guys. But this role was different. 

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The Last Time I Saw Elliot Paul

By Ned Calmer

Winter 1979

There were a dozen of them in the tiny, crowded space, loud with talk and typewriters, and they were busy getting out the little eight-page daily that gave them their chance to live in Paris in the Nineteen Twenties.

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