It helped to make them seem square that they were usually directed by blockheads; partly because of the genre's daunting logistics, the studios felt more comfortable entrusting their expensive war flicks to journeymen.
It was accepted, but when Ms. Landau visited Mr. Plensa's studio last May to talk logistics, to her amazement, Mr. Plensa said, "I have a surprise for you".
To create the exhibition, the curatorial duo divided and hand-selected the list, Morris completing much of the logistics from his studio in Melbourne, with Hsiung holding down the details in Los Angeles.
Typically, indoor scenes are shot at the ITV studios in Leeds, but the logistics of the live episode demanded that the entire show was shot on site, using interiors constructed especially for the anniversary edition.
The company got this effort under way while digging out from the damage to its logistics hub and photo studio near its headquarters in Chiba, across the bay from Tokyo.
Because of the distances and logistics involved, the city centre studio is not being used for the live episode.
The budgets for the films – $85m£50m0m) and $12m£7m7m) – reflected production logistics, but also the respective studios' thoughts on likely risks and rewards.
After six years of organizing the festival, TCM Senior Vice President for Programming Charlie Tabesh said it had become easier to navigate the logistics of procuring prints, digging through studio archives and attracting talent.
I spend weeks preparing work in my studio in Brooklyn, then get involved in all of the logistics of getting them overseas, crating up elaborate projects into boxes and hoping everything makes over there in one piece.
"And then I ask, 'Next time our friend Vladimir sends 50,000 Chechen soldiers to us, will your soldiers protect us?' " At Kanal PIK's studio shortly after its debut, political questions were eclipsed by logistics.
