The company's cameramen were in the crowd, filming for a weekly news-magazine series, "Vice," that will air this spring on HBO.
At the Dorset County Museum (01305 262 735; dorsetcountymuseum.org; £6.35) you can see a reconstruction of Hardy's study and, until 8 June, an exhibition of Madding Crowd film costumes.
They sang "Random Number Generation," from "Hedwig," and all the phones came out, glowing white rectangles hovering above the crowd, filming or taking pictures.
To accommodate the production, the Wimbledon committee allowed a crew to circulate in the crowd, filming people eating ice cream, dabbing on suntan lotion and occasionally watching a bit of tennis.
Patrick weaves through the seething crowd, filming the action.
At the top of the scaffolded structure, there was a head-shaped clear sculpture with tiny moving images featuring the same video head portraits of the crowd, filmed just moments before.
Afterward, standing in a crowded bar in Union Station, the Trinity crew contemplated, on television, aerial footage of vast crowds filmed at protests around the world.
From the choreographic exultation of hectic crowds filmed at sharply energized angles, Lubitsch shifts to a prismatic clash of special effects that conjures an inner whirl of orgiastic frenzy.
There were still crowds, filming whoever went past, taking selfies with dozens of fascists in the background.
Films CHAPPAQUA -- "The Crowd," silent film.
