{"id":1152866,"date":"2022-06-10T17:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T00:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/?p=1152866"},"modified":"2023-01-31T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:49:44","slug":"fiddler-on-the-roof-cinematographer-ossie-morris-silk-stockings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/fiddler-on-the-roof-cinematographer-ossie-morris-silk-stockings\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddler on the Roof Cinematographer Shot Most of Movie Through Silk Stockings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something you probably didn&#8217;t know about <em>Fiddler<\/em><i> on the Roof:<\/i> cinematographer Ossie Morris shot a majority of the movie musical with silk stockings stretched over his camera lens. That&#8217;s just one of many little-known facts about the classic 1971 film revealed in <em>Fiddler&#8217;<\/em>s<i> Journey to the Big Screen, <\/i>a new documentary about the making of the movie directed by Daniel Raim.<\/p>\n<p>Raim was a guest on a recent episode of the <em>Factual America\u00a0<\/em>podcast, which you can listen to on<a href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3zhijsO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3NjGxqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xo4Nku\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts,<\/a> or right here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7xTLlEhsyNUBrTaeQx2TvA?utm_source=generator&amp;t=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A majority of the film looks to me as if it was actually shot through a silk stocking, and there are certain scenes where they&#8217;re panning, where the sun is reflecting into the lens, you can actually see the texture of the silk stockings more so! So, certainly, that was the case,&#8221; Daniel Raim said on <em>Factual America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out one easily Google-able but still shocking thing: Chaim Topol was a lot younger than he looked when he played the iconic role of Tevye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s interesting \u2014 Topol&#8217;s 32 years old when he&#8217;s playing Tevye the milkman, but he looks like he could be an elderly father in his 50s or whatever, with&#8230; the gray beard,&#8221; Raim said. &#8220;They would have to trim some of the gray hairs from Jewison&#8217;s beard to apply to Topol&#8217;s beard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/narrating-texas-nature-doc-deep-in-the-heart-was-an-easy-yes-for-matthew-mcconaughey\/\">Narrating Texas Nature Doc <em>Deep in the Heart<\/em> Was an Easy Yes for Matthew McConaughey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the interview as well as in the documentary, Daniel Raim also gave a lot of props to director Norman Jewison, who actually waited until sunset to capture the perfect golden hour magic of the wedding procession scene featuring the famous song &#8220;Sunrise, Sunset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jewison actually called that &#8220;one of the most beautiful shots in all of his oeuvre,&#8221; according to Raim.<\/p>\n<p>Jewison also had a synagogue built from scratch on the movie&#8217;s set in Yugoslavia so that it would closely resemble the countless places of worship that were destroyed during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They had this big research project where they traveled through Eastern Europe, and there were no surviving \u2014 there were no synagogues survived after World War II, after the Holocaust, but they were able to piece together through archival photographs, what it might have looked like and recreated an actual structure in Lekenik, Yugoslavia, using&#8230; the real wood of that area,&#8221; Raim said of the synagogue we see in <em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while interviewing Michele Marsh, who played Hodel, Raim happened upon an incredible discovery that most documentary filmmakers only dream of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were asked to enter her house with our gear through the garage, and in her garage was this box. And it said <em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>. And I said, &#8216;Michele, what&#8217;s in this box?'&#8221; Daniel Raim recalled. &#8220;She said, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s my evacuation box, because here in California, we&#8217;re dealing with fires.&#8217; And so I said, &#8216;Well, great, can we please bring your evacuation box into the interview, and&#8230; go through the materials?&#8217; And in that box was a series of Polaroids that we see in the documentary. Never before seen, that she took, her friends took, of the behind the scenes of the making of the procession to the wedding and other gems, so that was like a documentary filmmaker&#8217;s dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Fiddler&#8217;s Journey to the Big Screen<\/em> is now playing at film festivals and in theaters in the U.S<em>.<\/em>Here are some time stamps from the <em>Factual America<\/em> interview:<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 The trailer for <em>Fiddler\u2019s Journey to the Big Screen.<\/em><br \/>\n03:45 \u2013 What it\u2019s about and where you can watch the film.<br \/>\n05:43 \u2013 The cultural phenomenon of the movie musical <em>Fiddler on the Roof.<\/em><br \/>\n07:45 \u2013 What makes the story so relatable to people.<br \/>\n10:20 \u2013 Who Norman Jewison was and what made his films so powerful.<br \/>\n13:19 \u2013 The collaboration of musicians behind <em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>.<br \/>\n16:38 \u2013 The importance of set design in the film.<br \/>\n18:15 \u2013 The extent of Robert Boyle\u2019s attention to detail.<br \/>\n24:19 \u2013 Norman Jewison\u2019s skill at picking actors and making them feel comfortable.<br \/>\n28:43 \u2013 What inspired Daniel to create a documentary about the iconic film.<br \/>\n31:54 \u2013 The key differences between theatrical and movie versions of <em>Fiddler on the Roof.<\/em><br \/>\n36:09 \u2013 How Daniel gained access to the archival footage of Norman directing.<br \/>\n41:00 \u2013 Different short docs Daniel has made and the feature he is now working on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Factual America<\/em> uses documentary filmmaking to examine the American experience as well as universal topics that affect all Americans. Guests include Academy Award, Emmy, and Grammy-winning filmmakers and producers, their subjects, as well as experts on the American experience. We discuss true crime, music, burning social and political topics, history and arts with the creators of the latest and upcoming documentary films in theatres and on the most popular digital platforms. This podcast is produced by Alamo Pictures, a London- and Austin-based production company that makes documentaries about the US from a European perspective for international audiences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Image: A BTS photo from <\/em>Fiddler on the Roof <em>featured in <\/em>Fiddler&#8217;s Journey to the Big Screen,<em> courtesy of Factual America<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s something you probably didn&#8217;t know about Fiddler on the Roof: cinematographer Ossie Morris shot a majority of the movie [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1734,"featured_media":1152871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"disable_comments":false,"tpd_featured_posts_arr":"","hide_featured_img_single_post":false,"msn_featured_video":[],"_msn_custom_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98,4512,11],"tags":[11533,38294,13170,39669],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-1152866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-cinematography","category-cinematography","category-news","tag-daniel-raim","tag-factual-america","tag-fiddler-on-the-roof","tag-fiddlers-journey-to-the-big-screen"],"primary_category":{"term_id":98,"name":"Articles - 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