My research has uncovered a photograph which Ned Scott created for the 1948 movie “The Return of October”. No prior evidence existed that Ned Scott worked this film. The movie stars Glenn Ford and Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe and James Gleason. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Rudy Mate for Columbia Studios. Ned Scott participated in…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Ned Scott’s character photography in a 1940 exhibit curated and mounted in their building in Hollywood, California. The exhibit was called “Stars in Camera Art”. I only discovered this mounted 11 x 14 Academy print very recently, and it was offered for sale. I knew that my father worked director John…
John Wayne, a major cast member from the epic film Stagecoach, is discussed in a letter written by Louise Platt , another cast member. Louise relates anecdotes about cast members John Wayne, John Ford, John Carradine, Claire Trevor and Thomas Mitchell in this 2002 letter. This letter was written to the Ned Scott Archive to accompany a major exhibit at…
Newly acquired photographs of Ernie Pyle have just been posted on the website under Film Stars. Ned Scott created these images under the direction of producer Lester Cowan while the film was being shot in late 1944. A key feature of life then was the social process of smoking. Among Ernie’s army pals, smoking was a cohesive force binding men…
Letters from Cady Wells to Ned Scott show some of the artist’s thoughts and feelings about his work and the world around him as he grew into his mature expression of desert modernism in 1935-37. Thoughts on his first working visit to Death Valley appear as do his thoughts on his first exhibit in Los Angeles. These letters may be…
The Ned Scott Archive was able to purchase 9 original, oversize 11 x 14 prints from the movie “Spellbound”, a 1945 film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. These prints were made in support of the film from images created during a photographic session at our family home home in La Canada, California. Because of this…
A new book from Aperture Foundation was published last Fall. The subject is Paul Strand’s work in Mexico during the years 1932-34. James Krippner, a history professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania is the author. Professor Krippner and I have been corresponding over a period of time concerning the making the Redes/The Wave in 1934. Since Ned Scott did the…