Picking up a town

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PICKING UP A TOWN – A TEAM STORY Dad once was discussing the value of a film’s construction coordinator. For my layman readers, the title Construction Coordinator has a history all its own. We didn’t always have the title Construction Coordinator. We had construction foremen in charge of the actual construction of the set on stage and in the mill. All the other departments such as paint and staff and grips (as they interfaced with the backings and platforms). Were coordinated by the art director. I will refer to my good friend Gary Martin for exact dates but I was told it was his father Ivan Martin who was in charge of operations at Twentieth Century Fox who decided there was


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