A professional film crew will come calling next week for a three-day shoot about Amherst's most famous reclusive resident, Emily Dickinson -- The Belle of Amherst.
The movie is called, appropriately enough, "A Quiet Passion" and they will of course be filming at the Dickinson Homestead, aka Emily Dickinson Museum, on Main Street just above the railroad tracks her father helped bring to Amherst.
Since it's a period piece Amherst police will be used to control traffic to ensure a 21st century internal combustion vehicle does not stray into a shot of a horse and carriage ambling up Main Street. Barry Roberts will be providing the horses.
Film crew will use Wildwood rather than West Cemetery due to 21st century intrusions near West Cemetery
Chief Livingstone points out it's a pretty simply request, not nearly as complicated as the 1993 shoot centered in the downtown for the movie "Malice."
Old timers also remember when the Merry Maple (aka Christmas Tree) was reignited in the spring of 1968 for the movie "Silent Night, Lonely Night."
2 comments:
And no one will notice (a) the asphalt road surface or (b) the painted lines on it?
In the 19th Century the road would have been either cobblestone or (more likely) just dirt. Sorry folks, some of us notice this sort of thing...
Of course, Emily was damn lucky to have lived in the 19th Century and not the 21st -- today she'd have a mental illness tag hung around her neck.
I remember driving into Amherst in March 1969 it was, and seeing "Seasons Greetings" banners up over Pleasant St. And the shop windows all decorated with snowflakes and Christmas lights. I thought I was tripping. Hmm. Probably was. Watched. Lloyd Bridges do numerous takes of him getting off the bus at the bus station behind where Bruegger's now is. never did see the movie. Probably won't see the Dickinson thing either.
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