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Days of Heaven/Wheat Field Fire

Scene dossier / 1978

Wheat Field Fire

EXTmagic hourAlberta, Canada

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Scene Equipment

lens setA-CamPanavision Panavision VA Spherical/Panavision VA 40mma_cam_lens

Almendros and replacement DP Haskell Wexler shot only during magic hour — roughly 20 minutes per day — for weeks to achieve the film's luminous quality.