Ball of Fire
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Ball of Fire is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The Samuel Goldwyn Productions film concerns a group of professors laborin
Theatrical release poster
Publicity photo of Barbara Stanwyck for the film
Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper
Gregg Toland
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Gregg Wesley Toland was an American cinematographer known for his innovative use of techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, William Wyl
Gregg Toland in 1947
Orson Welles and Gregg Toland at work on Citizen Kane (1941); the camera appears to be one of the very few brand-new Mitchell Camera Corp BNCs which were made before the World War II embargo on the manufacture of new production cameras (excepting those intended for the U.S. Army Signal Corps and U.S. allies).
The final ending title card for Citizen Kane, placing Toland on same card as Orson Welles, the director, because Welles felt he deserved it.