PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL

COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL

SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOK

FACTSTime & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

TOWNS STREET

BANK

BANK ALLEY

HOTEL

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

HOTEL ROOM

PLANTATION

SPENCERS BEDROOM

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

TOWNS STREET

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

OLD FASHIONED

Beautiful

METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

ACCOUNTS

INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS

Time & PlaceCharacters

RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters

CONCEPTToneCharacters

SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters

TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

TABLE

CONTENTS

of

ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN

ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO

RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD

BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND

SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY

DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE

WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO

PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA

OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN

AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-

ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-

ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL

DEATHS ESCALATES...

TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.

ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930

A devoted husband and brother

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis

believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a

solemn, logical man who never put himself before

others and counted family greater than gold. This was

evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took

over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger

brother, Percy Spencer.

Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers

and worked as an accountant before the legendary

crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,

who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers

disappearance. He supported her to the very end.

PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942

An American Hero

Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.

Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a

father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger

brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle

name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to

achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This

early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included

incarceration.

Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy

moved to New York. In being the only remaining

Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his

brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.

Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy

was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris

and her child long after his death.

HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943

Dependable Till the End

Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother

at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He

became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the

Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and

eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief

engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the

age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful

of similar positions for short periods of time.

After accusations of fraud and theft within the

business, however, Larson fled south where he was

eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He

spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in

prison building weaponry for the war effort.

He was released due to good behaviour in October of

1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until

he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.

VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953

A Quiet Man

Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that

originally made their fortune in tobacco during the

founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is

named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who

moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton

farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil

War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth

and power.

His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army

during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling

habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-

money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned

despair into profit.

After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept

to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the

ocassional company of his kin.

DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988

Wife and devoted Mother

Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving

nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-

lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,

Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris

home-town of Chattenooga.

Doris had always been at the top of her class from the

time she began elementary school up until college. She

attended university in Georgia until she met and

married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved

to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a

family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her

husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of

her life in New York with her son under the careful eye

of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.

CONSTRAINED

ELLIS SPENCER

PERCY SPENCER

LARSONVIRGIL

DORIS

TOWNS STREET

EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA

BOY

SECURITY GUARD

BANK TELLERS

BANK PATRONS

TOWNSPEOPLE

HENCHMEN

ELLIS

PERCY

LARSON

VIRGIL

DORIS

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METHODIC

BANK ALLEY

SOUTHERN TRUST

BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER

14FEBRUARY

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INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL

JONATHAN TABLER as

LARSON

JOSHUA FALLONas

PERCY

PAUL WALLINGas

ELLIS

PRODUCTION BOOK

03 MTH THE STRONGROOM

DirectorGefGove

ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer

Kyle ReidProduction Designer

Ma[r]co Barreto

FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011

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TOWNS STREET BANK

WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA

EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA

HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM

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LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation

ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:

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ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO

PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT

LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT

DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE

NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR

BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING TH