Filming Elia Kazan's "Wild River"--Tennessee 3 Possibly 1959

Robert Frank captured this film strip, “Filming Elia Kazan's "Wild River"--Tennessee 3,” at an unknown date using photography. I imagine Frank, peering through his lens on location, maybe feeling a little outside the Hollywood machine. He's got all these little windows into the action, each frame a world of its own. I can see the crosses on some of the frames. Were they his? Are they saying, "no, not this one"? Or maybe, "yes, this is it"? The film strip itself becomes a kind of map, not just of the movie they were making, but of Frank's own seeing, his own journey through the scene. It’s like a painter's sketchbook, where the process is right there on the surface. Each image is a little gesture, a quick mark, trying to pin down a feeling, a moment, a truth. It reminds me that art-making is really about seeing and feeling. We get closer to seeing the world with all its grit and glory.