Desert Chase at Dawn scene in No Country for Old Men

[gabbysp]

Hi Roger,

I am doing some research on Day for Light filming for class, and I was wondering if you could tell me about the filming process for the Desert Chase at Dawn scene in No Country for Old Men? Was this filmed during the day?

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[MNMike]

There’s a whole description and breakdown on your question in the looking at light section- NCFOM. It’s pretty thorough and should answer all you questions for the scene. Cheers.

[dmullenasc]

I typed a long reply and by the time I hit “submit” the website software didn’t accept it I guess! It disappeared!

[dmullenasc]

I tried again — I give up! I guess it doesn’t like me putting images into the text.

[dmullenasc]

Test.

[dmullenasc]

OK, one image works… 

[dmullenasc]

OK, so three images didn’t work, I guess two is the limit.

Anyway, for the third time… I don’t think that chase scene in NCFOM is an example of day for night, it’s a night for night scene that goes into twilight for breaking dawn. The frames I just posted above are from “Yellow Sky” (1948), which has a lot of day for night shot on b&w infrared film by Joseph MacDonald. One artifact is that Gregory Peck’s black shirt goes grey due to IR pollution from the dyes in the fabric.

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