Flim Making
During the shooting of The ****** Spring, we were up in the northern province of Dalarna in May and it was early in the morning, about half past seven. The landscape there is rugged, and our company was working by a little lake in the forest. It was very cold, about 30 degrees, and from time to time a few snowflakes fell through the grey, rain dimmed sky. The company was dressed in a strange variety of clothing-raincoats, oil slickers. Icelandic sweater jackets, old blankets, coachmen's coats, medieval robes. Our men had laid some ninety feet of rusty, buckling rail over the difficult terrain, to dolly the camera on. We were all helping with the equipment-actors, electricians, make up men, script girl, sound crew-mainly to keep warm. Suddenly someone shouted and pointed toward the sky. Then we saw a crane floating high above the fir trees, and then another, and then several cranes floating majestically in a circle above us. We all dropped what we were doing and ran to the top of a nearby hill to see the cranes better, We stood there for a long time, until they turned westward and disappeared over the forest. And suddenly I thought this is what it means to make a movie in Sweden. This is what can happen, this is how we work together with cold equipment and little money, and this is how we can suddenly drop everything for the love of four cranes floating above the tree tops.
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