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Stage & Screen Studios: How Production Backdrops Get Made
From a designer's sketch to a canvas that flies in on cue, the backdrop is engineering wearing a costume.

From a designer's sketch to a canvas that flies in on cue, the backdrop is engineering wearing a costume.

The film that pulled the Hollywood western back from the grave, and the argument it started that never ended.

Dynastic fantasy works on screen because it runs the oldest storytelling machinery we have: movement, succession, and a family that cannot stop fighting.

Screens, backdrops and staging gear cost what they cost for reasons most quotes never spell out. Here is what moves the number.