So I was going to segue next into pix of scenes from classic Hollywood movies with wilderness/nature/rural scenes and scanned through my database of 1000’s of old movie pix and found precious few. And I started to think about it and I realized that, with the exception of westerns and some beach movies, nature – beyond a scene on a moonlit patio or a quick panorama of the surrounding scenery – really did not figure into a lot of old movies. All I could come up with (and I didn’t think too long about it) was “The African Queen” as a notable exception as is “Leave Her to Heaven”; some of the climatic scenes in “North by Northwest” happen outside in nature; Bette Davis has a few brief woodsy-camping scenes in “Now, Voyager” as well as a car accident in the hills above Rio; the brief scenes of driving through the woods toward Manderlay in “Rebecca” at the beginning and end of the film; Grace Kelly and Cary Grant driving through the hills above Monte-Carlo in “To Catch a Thief”; the final scene of “Painted Desert”, and I suppose “Lifeboat” but that so obviously was not actually shot on location out in the middle of the ocean. Can anyone else think of classic American movies set in part or in whole in nature besides western or beach movies?
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Black Narcissis 1947 is visually arresting and set in the Himalayas. Though amazingly enough it’s all matte paintings.
If you stretch the era of classic/golden Hollywood all the way to 1965 (and that’s pushing it) there was “The Sound of Music” with its alpine scenery. Then there’s Scarlett’s flight from Atlanta back to Tara through the war devastated countryside of Georgia, but that’s pretty brief (but long enough for her to get in a good slap on Rhett). And there are a few brief outdoor scenes in “Spellbound” but the skiing scene at least was obviously filmed in studio. Old Hollywood I guess just wasn’t into icky nature scenes or rural settings.
Well, there are the westerns too.
There are a few scenes in “It Happened One Night,” with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable while she escapes across the country to escape the watchful eye of her big city papa and the burden of being a well known heiress and socialite. (Tough life, sure.) I wonder if the scarcity of nature in that era was due to the fact that sooo much of the country was still pretty rural, and Hollywood sold glamour. Nature was not glamour, not much of a commodity. Just a way of life.. Now that everything is opposite we seek the beauty that used to just be a way of life for folks outside the big cities. Just a thought.