A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration (41 page)

The Academy Awards sequence, with an innovative use of the wide screen:
the long shot of the glamorous audience juxtaposed with a simultaneous close-up
of Vicki's acceptance speech on the television screen.

These two stills were
composited to provide a
shot for the missing drive-in
sequence.

This frame of Garland and Mason from an earlier scene in the film was used to replace
the deleted footage of Norman and Vicki on their way to the sneak preview of her first
film. This is the way the image looks in CinemaScope before it is "unsqueezed."

This photo was taken for the 1983 reconstruction. Gloria Lewin plays the
landlady and the author's arm stands in for Norman Maine. It was
photographed at the original location for the Oleander Arms.

This scene was created by taking the figure of Mason from the still below and
compositing it against a frame from an original location shoot.