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PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
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LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
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WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
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HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
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BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
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EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
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INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL
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COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL
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SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
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SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
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PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
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JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
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JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
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PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOK
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FACTSTime & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
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ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
-
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
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PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
-
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
-
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
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DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
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CONSTRAINED
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
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TOWNS STREET
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BANK
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BANK ALLEY
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HOTEL
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
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HOTEL ROOM
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PLANTATION
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SPENCERS BEDROOM
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ELLIS SPENCER
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PERCY SPENCER
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LARSON
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VIRGIL
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DORIS
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BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
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ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
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TOWNS STREET
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SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
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ACCOUNTS
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PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
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PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
OLD FASHIONED
Beautiful
METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
-
PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
TABLE
CONTENTS
of
ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING THROUGH MOSSY OAKS AND WHISTLING DOWN
ALLEYS, COMPLETELY DRY AFTER MONTHS OF GRIM, GREY CLOUDCOVER THAT REFUSED TO
RELINQUISH ITS MOISTURE. DROUGHT INFECTS THE TOWN THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WOULD
BE SPARED FROM THE DEPRESSION--AFTER ALL, BAINBRIDGE WAS PROTECTED, ISOLATED, AND
SELF-SUFFICIENT. BUT NO TOWN ESCAPED WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND POVERTY
DROVE THROUGH THE NATION LIKE A JUGGERNAUT. LONE ISLANDS LIKE BAINBRIDGE GOT THE
WORST OF IT; TOO PROUD TO STAND NEXT TO ANOTHER TOWN, NOW IT HAS NO CRUTCH TO
PICK ITSELF BACK UP. ONLY THE BARREN COTTON PLANTATION REAMAINS AFLOAT AMIDST A SEA
OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FAILED. MEN GO HOME WITHOUT PAY OR SAVINGS AND WOMEN
AND CHILDREN SIT PATIENTLY AT DINNER TABLES LINED WITH ORNATE PLACE SETTINGS, IMAGIN-
ING THE RICH FOODS THAT WOULD NOT BE THERE ANYMORE. TRAINS OF RAVEN-CLAD MOURN-
ERS INCREASINGLY FREQUENT THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN AS THE NUMBER OF NATURAL
DEATHS ESCALATES...
TONIGHT THE RAIN WILL FINALLY COME TO WASH AWAY THE LAST VESTIGES OF HOPE.
ELLIS EDWARD SPENCER Born: 8 october 1898Missing: 14 february 1930
A devoted husband and brother
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer, Ellis
believed in an orthodox approach to life. He was a
solemn, logical man who never put himself before
others and counted family greater than gold. This was
evident after the death of his father when Ellis Jr. took
over the great but happy burdon of raising his younger
brother, Percy Spencer.
Ellis Spencer Jr. loved the exact science of numbers
and worked as an accountant before the legendary
crash of 1929. He married his sweetheart, Doris Enn,
who was with child at the time of Mr. Spencers
disappearance. He supported her to the very end.
PERCIVAL GEORGE SPENCER Born: 5 November 1904Died: 6 June 1942
An American Hero
Born of the late Evelyn and Ellis George Spencer.
Percy looked up to his brother, Ellis, in the absence of a
father, for strength and guidance. Forever the younger
brother, all Percy acquired from Ellis Sr. was a middle
name and a gold watch. He never lost the ambition to
achieve a lifestyle of wealth and extravagance. This
early drive led to a troubled adolescence, which included
incarceration.
Right after the disappearance of his brother, Percy
moved to New York. In being the only remaining
Spencer, he took on the responsibility of caring for his
brothers widow as well as the child he called his own.
Thanks to a surprisingly fast success in the city, Percy
was able to leave a legacy of wealth to support Doris
and her child long after his death.
HORACE LARSON Born: 22 april 1881Died: 28 december 1943
Dependable Till the End
Horace, who prefers the title of Larson, lost his mother
at childbirth and was orphaned at the age of seven. He
became an apprentice to notable ship-builder of the
Toledo Shipbuilding Company. He worked his way up and
eventually earned the position of assistant to the chief
engineer of the American Ship-building Company at the
age of seventeen, from there, he worked in a handful
of similar positions for short periods of time.
After accusations of fraud and theft within the
business, however, Larson fled south where he was
eventually arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He
spent the next years incarcerated and passed his time in
prison building weaponry for the war effort.
He was released due to good behaviour in October of
1924 and lived quietly on his own for several years until
he was stricken by pneumonia. No family survived him.
VIRGIL DENMANNBorn: 5 january 1854Died: 6 january 1953
A Quiet Man
Virgil Denmann is the last of the Denmann clan that
originally made their fortune in tobacco during the
founding of the thirteen American colonies. Virgil is
named after his grandfather, William Virgil, who
moved his family to Georgia to begin cotton
farmingwhich boomed before the American Civil
War leaving the Denmann family with great wealth
and power.
His brother, Calvin, passed away serving in the army
during the Great War, leaving debts from his gambling
habits to his brother. Smartly investing the family-
money in his brothers debtors companies, Virgil turned
despair into profit.
After the death of his second wife, Emily, Virgil kept
to himself, preferring the peace of the country, and the
ocassional company of his kin.
DORIS SPENCERBorn: 2 february 1906Died: 4 april 1988
Wife and devoted Mother
Doris was known for her radiant smile and loving
nature. She grew up with her two older sisters, Mary-
lyn and Eleanor, on a cattle farm run by her parents,
Theodore and Beatrice Taylor, who still reside in Doris
home-town of Chattenooga.
Doris had always been at the top of her class from the
time she began elementary school up until college. She
attended university in Georgia until she met and
married Ellis Spencer when she dropped out and moved
to Bainbridge, settling down to focus on starting a
family. Doris was pregnant at the time of her
husbands disappearance. She spent the remainder of
her life in New York with her son under the careful eye
of her brother-in-law, Percy Spencer.
CONSTRAINED
ELLIS SPENCER
PERCY SPENCER
LARSONVIRGIL
DORIS
TOWNS STREET
EDWARD HOPPER TAMARA LEMPICKA
BOY
SECURITY GUARD
BANK TELLERS
BANK PATRONS
TOWNSPEOPLE
HENCHMEN
ELLIS
PERCY
LARSON
VIRGIL
DORIS
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METHODIC
BANK ALLEY
SOUTHERN TRUST
BOOKKEPPER CASHIER CASHIER
14FEBRUARY
ACCOUNTS
INTERIOR: STAGE A, FSU FILM SCHOOL COTTON PLANTATION AT SOUTHWOOD TALLAHASSEE, FL SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL SPENCERS BEDROOM AT SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION IN TALLAHASSEE, FL
JONATHAN TABLER as
LARSON
JOSHUA FALLONas
PERCY
PAUL WALLINGas
ELLIS
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PRODUCTION BOOK
03 MTH THE STRONGROOM
DirectorGefGove
ProducerTricia MearsCinematographer
Kyle ReidProduction Designer
Ma[r]co Barreto
FSU FILM SCHOOL - 2011
PRODUCTION DESIGN BOOKFACTS
Time & PlaceCharacters
RESEARCHToneSettingsCharacters
CONCEPTToneCharacters
SKETCHESPalette MotifsSettingsCharacters
TOWNS STREET BANK
WEST STREET IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
BACK ALLEY IN BAINBRIDGE, GA
EXTERIOR: HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HAND TRADING COMPANY BUILDING IN PELHAM, GA
HOTEL HOTEL ROOM PLANTATION SPENCERS BEDROOM
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LOCATIONSHotel: Stage ATown Thoroughfare and Bank Alley: Bainbridge, GABank: Pelham, GAPlantation: Southwood PlantationEllis House: Southwood Plantation
ACTORSEllis: Paul WallingPercy: Joshua FallonLarson:
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ITS FEBRUARY 14, 1930 AND THERE IS PRECIOUS LITTLE HOPE LEFT IN THE NOT SO LONG AGO
PROSPEROUS BIG TOWN OF BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. THIS IS THE FIRST DAY THAT HAS FELT
LIKE WINTER IN AN UNNATURALLY STICKY SEASON. UNREAD NEWSPAPERS AND UNSWEPT
DOORMATS LINE THE TOWN SIDEWALKS WHERE NOW ONLY STRAY CATS MEET TO SHARE THE
NEWS OF THE DAY. INSTEAD OF THE LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN SHOOTING MARBLES IN THEIR
BACKYARDS, WE HEAR THE WIND RUSHING TH
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