As I was saying, I had to match old footage from old movies with the footage that we were shooting, over Steve Martin's shoulder to Lana Turner and then over a stand-in for Lana Turner with blonde hair, to Steve Martin. So... it was before the days of anything seriously digitalizing, or where... where the technology of it was, a) primitive, and b) incredibly expensive, and we didn't know anything about it anyway. So I did it in the most simplest ways. I mean, I just looked and tried to figure out what to do and shot film. And what I had them do was to build a... a dark room on the stage. You know, half the size of this room, or a quarter the size of this room. And I had a slide projector and I measured the light and it was... so that it was very precise – it was 16 foot-lamberts and everything – and then I had slides taken from the old footage and I would stick the slide in and project it and I would study it, and I would say... I mean, this was so primitive, but it was the only way we could think of to do, you know. And I'd say, 'Well, let's see, the light is coming onto her face from here, so that means it must be coming onto his face from there.' And I would sort of figure it out, and kind of paint by numbers. And then I'd go out and figure out... and I would tell the crew what to do and where to put the light and everything. And I'd go back in and study again, and go back and forth and back and forth. That was how we did it. Totally primitive by the numbers, paint by numbers, way. Although the darkroom, which you could lock from the inside, became used on lunch hours and things for all sorts of things. I went in there a couple of times and found... I was kind of amazed at what's going on, because I had... I liked to... and even in those days when I was a good deal younger, I liked to sleep at lunch. And it's almost a most important thing in movies, really. And so I had them bring a mattress and put it on the floor in the darkroom. Well, you can imagine what went on. It was quite extraordinary really, because you could line up... pounding on the... 'I want to go to sleep!' Anyway. But it was very useful extracurricularly, but also very useful and that was how we did it. And that was how we matched the footage – really by very... very primitive, just studying and figuring it out, and trying to match it by eye, and we had no more technology than that.
