Author: Chernyavska

Vehicles, too, were a major topic in order to create contemporary street scenes of the various decades.

The range of props included further utensils such as Francis’ Rolleiflex, sandwich bags and the furnishings of the jazz club. The entire presented world over the documented period of 5 decades had to be created for the animation scenes.

The credible implementation of the scenes required the creation of a number of different objects. They included suitcases for travel as well as musical instruments, authentic Old Berlin street lights, as well as microphone stands with the Neumann U47 microphone, Rudy van Gerlder’s microphone of choice in the 1950s.

Public transport of 1920s Berlin had to be virtually recreated specifically for this film.

Numerous extras and minor characters had to be created for scenes in 1920s Berlin and in 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s New York. Clothing and hairstyles of the respective periods had to be taken in to account. Here are some design drawings for female figures in the audience and on the streets of 1920s Berlin.