Director Robert Redford’s cinematographer, Phillipe Rousselot, gauges the exquisite afternoon light before panning sky and mountains, then gliding to the Maclean boys scouting town. Every trace of modern Livingston has been camouflaged. This is the opening scene to A River Runs through It. The Panaflex swings as costumed extras cross an avenue dressed in fake balconies, gas lampposts and wooden sidewalks. He has updated it for Mountain Outlaw magazine.Ī 1920s motorcycle on high, thin wheels swims through gravel on Callender Street as a grizzled man in coveralls rides it past horse-drawn buggies, Model Ts, and a fat team of Percherons hauling a buckboard. It appeared in Toby Thompson’s 2012 book, Riding the Rough String: Reflections on the American West. Editor’s note: This essay was written in 1991 during the filming of A River Runs Through It in Livingston, Montana.
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