He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, influenced by German expressionism and the work of the great European directors. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting, and the actors’ positions for each scene, translating dramatic conventions of the stage to the new capabilities of film. <br /> Here is the long-awaited book on William Cameron Menzies, Hollywood’s first and greatest production designer, a job title David O. Selznick invented for Menzies’ extraordinary, all-encompassing, Academy Award–winning work on <i>Gone With the Wind</i> (which he effectively co-directed). <br /><br /> It was Menzies—winner of the first-ever Academy Award for Art Direction, jointly for <i>The Dove </i>(1927) and <i>Tempest</i> (1928), and who was as well a director (fourteen pictures) and a producer (twelve pict
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