Movie Stills

Articles

Stills are the basic unit that all films are based on. EVERYTHING starts with the still. For this reason, we wanted to create a place for more explanations on the many ways that stills are used in the filming process. We have several articles to help step you through that process.

Importance of the Still - This article breaks down the job of the Unit Photographer and the Color Photographer and what happens to the stills they produce.

Production Still Numbers - This article shows how stills are marked for identification

Identifying Production Stills - This article shows different types of stills and how they are marked. such as Exclusives, casting stills and photographer stills.

 

NOTICE: the new Global Cinema section on stills is now open and has all books and logs available plus all articles presented in a presentation format.

Global Cinema Research - Stills Section

These indexes are from the 2008 Edition of our US Movie Studio Production Codes book and are in pdf format.

Number Index
Letter Index

 

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Studios

20th Cent. - Production Still Analysis
    with Fox - Production Codes - Letters
    with Fox - Production Codes - Numbers
AIP - Production Still Analysis
          Production Codes - Letters
          Production Codes - Numbers
Columbia - Production Still Analysis
                   Production Codes
Fox Film - Production Still Analysis
                  Production Codes - Letters
                  Production Codes - Numbers
Grand National - Production Codes MGM - Production Still Analysis
              Production Codes - Numbers & Letters
              Shorts & Specialties - Letters
              Shorts & Specialties - Numbers
Monogram - Production Still Analysis
                      Production Codes - Numbers
                      Production Codes - Letters
Paramount - Production Still Analysis
                     Production Codes - Letters
                     Production Codes - Numbers
PRC - Production Still Analysis
           Production Codes
Republic - Production Still Analysis
                  Production Codes
RKO - Production Still Analysis
            Production Codes - Letters
            Production Codes - Numbers
Universal - Production Still Analysis
                   Production Codes - Letters
                   Production Codes - Numbers
WB - Production Still Analysis
          Production Codes - Letters
          Production Codes - Numbers
 

 

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New Additions

This is the area for NEW ADDITIONS. We will continue to add to this section during the year. Also NOTICE: that we have started gathering production codes from other countries as well.

Production Code - New Additions

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