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Classic Hollywood Dancers - Instagram: "Gene Kelly performs the Alter Ego dance in the 1944 film "Cover Girl." Famed director Stanley Donen recounting his historic contribution to the sequence: ❝The director of the film said it's impossible, it can't be done. And Harry Cohn (head of Columbia Pictures) said to Gene, "Think the kid Stanley knows what he's talking about?" Gene said, "Yes." There was no such thing as a computer in those days, it hadn't been invented, and we had to actually duplicate exactly the camera moves, how fast, how far, where the camera was panning, when, and how. There was no way to do that except as a dance number. I knew how to do it because I put marks on the floor and we'd mark the track, and I counted off the beats, the pan and tilt on the camera head. We put a piece of adhesive tape and little lines. The frame was half empty. They had to photograph him twice. Once on the real set. When we finished with the live character, we had to cover everything in black instagram.com