Tuesday, April 7, 2026

EXchange names on screen

[From Mister 880 (dir. Edmund Goulding, 1950). Click for a larger view.]

I always like seeing a page from a telephone book filling the screen. I think of it as a reality effect.

The Secret Service did indeed have offices at 90 Church Street, which is still a federal building.

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