In this overhead long shot, you see The Brady’s table for eight. But on Robert Reed’s close up, two chairs are placed behind him. I assume they did it just to fill in the camera frame.
Also, his back should be to the 4th wall. They are cheating it here by him sitting with his back to the dining room curtain on the kids’ side of the table. It would be faster and cheaper to put him there than to add, and light, a 4th wall.
This is the kind of stuff I wish they would talk about on The Brady Bros podcast! The podcast is great, but they are so close to the original material we don’t often get an inside peak at how the sausage was made.
If my memory is accurate,that was the episode where Peter is bugging to room with a tape recorder.I can usually tell by the clothes.
ReplyDeleteIts fascinating that the series was shot with one camera.Every scene was filmed separately ,and pieced together later. The chairs were probably just "there",and no one really thought out the placement for 8 people in the final episode.
I also like to ascertain what food they were eating throughout the series. Looks here like roast beef,sweet potatoes,salad,and a dinner roll. I wonder if the food was made fresh at the studio.And how much they ate while filming.
ReplyDeleteJohnny, good observations on your part but I don't think most people see thru these camera shots & such like you do. I always thought it was interesting that a family this big ate on a table sitting on CARPET. I also grew up in a family of 6 kids--3 boys, 3 girls. Our dinner table looked much like this one at dinner! But afterwards there'd be so much crap on the floor, under our chairs and stuff. Our table sat on tile though :^)
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