A Behind The Scenes Clip From “The Age Of Innocence”

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By Monica Bretherton.

The story behind this filmclip is that someone had given me a pile of super-8 film to use on some film project. I was with Tomi Streiff on the set of “The Age Of Innocence”, which was being filmed in Brooklyn Heights, and we were trying to put together some footage as background for a story about two production assistants working on the film. The actors in the film were shooting a dinner party scene (thus the formal attire).

Richard E. Grant had no doubt observed us lurking around (I should add that we looked a little too eccentric to be true paperazzi) and decided to do a little counter-shooting.

I never pursued the film project once we used up all the Super-8, as I realized it was overly complicated, but this clip and a conversation I had with Martin Scorcese’s mother about corsets (they leave bruises) were little treasures I came away with.

The footage is digitized from a VHS dub of a HI-8 home transfer and compressed to run as a flash film, so the quality isn’t great. Tomi Streiff had the dubious distinction of being the cameraman, so please credit him. He will find it amusing that this little clip is out there.

Regards,
Monica Bretherton.