Important information about tourism in Costa Rica - Florida

Hollywood backdrops, or "backings," as they are known in the industry, are some of the biggest and most illusionistic paintings in the world.

They're still used in movies and TV shows when you need a way to place a scene in a faraway place, a time in history, or a different season. When they're not used they're rolled up in giant tubes.

CBS Sunday Morning did a feature on them, interviewing Karen Maness, who wrote the book The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop.



Maness is an atelier-trained painter who teaches at the U.T. Austin's Department of Theatre and Dance. She works as a Scenic Art Supervisor at Texas Performing Arts, and recently co-founded the new Atelier Dojo.

The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop is 324 pages, hardbound, slipcased, with huge photo reproductions that spill across its 11x14" pages.
----
Previously: Hollywood Backdrops: Illusion at a Cinematic Scale