On Location Tootsie:The Movie Park Avenue Location

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On Location with Tootsie - Park Avenue
The film crew is trying to capture the moment in the movie when Dustin Hoffman is revealed for the first time as Tootsie on a crowed street.
I added the finished scene from the movie over my footage each time so you can understand how hard it was to stage the finished product. At times you can hear the director trying to cue some of their background actors to pass Dustin while he walked by.

During the time I was shooting I didn't capture the moment that would be in the movie.

( I have a lot of friends who worked with many of the crew guys I filmed, let me know their names, so I can do a update identifying them.)

A Past to Draw OnLooking back on my career in the film industr
y there were film offers I turned down that I'm sorry I didn't follow through on, and one was working with Sydney Pollack.

I had a great education working at the offices of the Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis* on the films Death Wish (1974 ) with Director Michael Winner and Three Days of the Condor (1975) with director Sydney Pollack. The one thing I had going for me was the fact I was a history buff, and directors liked hanging out and talking about the history of the movie industry, especially Sydney.

By the end of working on Three of the Days of the Condor, we talked about letting me write a book on his film career, and if I wanted I could work on Bobby Deerfield with Al Pacino.

But during that time I held off because I was working with actor Max Von Sydow, who I met on Condor, and he was interested in a script I wrote and wanted to direct where he would be portraying the Father of American Film D.W. Griffith.

I had future Oscar producer Marty Richards interested in my script and Max, but not me as the director, so I turned him down and went in search of someone who would believe in me , but that's another story.

I kept in touch with Sydney, and we talked about me working on the book again during the making of Electric Horseman, but again I held off when I heard that the noted D.W. Griffith historian Seymour Stern died, and his family didn't know what to do with his life's work, so I stopped everything to fly to Ottawa Canada to buy the collection, but that's another story.

I did meet up with Sydney again when he was shooting Tootsie, and he let me on the set to shoot a documentary. By then he was planning to do Out of Africa, and we lost track of each other after that.

Some of the best times on Condor was during lunch breaks when he brought me over to the camera, and taught me about the various camera lens and how to use them, but that's another story, once I can find my diaries I kept about Condor.

He died of Cancer at the age of 73, and as I'm writing this I'm 74, where does the time go?

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* In the early years, De Laurentiis produced Italian neorealist films such as Bitter Rice (1949) and the early Fellini works La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1956), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti.