The Artifice of Hollywood

Hollywood’s stage sets (wherever they are built) are amazing. The brownstones of New York, for example, are simple facades, surrounded by green screen paint, and ready to be incorporated into a film or TV show.

The woman below, on the stoop of a far too perfect brownstone (and where have you seen a doorway that wide? Turns out she’s on the set of The Guilded Age, and on the brownstone facade you see on the photo below (the one with the stepladder on it)

The Shutterstock image below, shows in the bottom right, how the ‘bulidings’ are just skin deep. Even the end of the road, is green screened, ready for computer enhancement.

As Seen In Harlem

Not quite sure what to make of this.


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