The cinematographer

we should mention some of the people that worked on this. Bob Caramico was the director of photography. He directed one film that I had the pleasure of seeing theatrically and something we had sold for years. It's called Sex Ritual of the Occult. Oh yeah, I heard about that for years. Yeah, and it's 1970 was released and it has a lot in common with this. It's all on one stage. One central stage. I never saw that. A fog machine.

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Now, Apostolof says this is a real skeleton. That's what he told me. Yeah. He's got some nice camera work on this. Well, I think... I think Caramico knew his stuff. You know, what's interesting about Caramico, he did all these number of low-budget films. Guess what happened to Count Dracula? Stuff on that level. And then, years later, he's shooting Dallas. He became a big TV DP. You know? He's passed away now, but...

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Tim Lucas

ducked down to clear themselves from flying debris and suddenly come face to fuse with the truth about where they've been standing. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was Sergio Leone's first collaboration with director of photography Tonino Delli Colli, replacing Massimo Dallamano, who had just been promoted to the ranks of directors, with the 1967 film Bandidos, starring Enrico Maria Salerno.

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Tim Lucas

Once we get under the bridge, Delli Colli's camerawork becomes masterfully sinuous as it navigates these wooden supports. The camera operator on this film, worthy of a separate hand of applause, was Franco Di Giacomo. He would graduate to director of photography in 1970, and his credits would include such titles as Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem, Dario Argento's Four Flies on Gray Velvet, Aldo Lado's Who Saw Her Die,

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