I'm working on a project on aerial cinematography and have zeroed in on Nicholas Ray's "They Live By Night" as an early use of the helicopter as a filming platform. Does anybody have any leads regarding Nicholas Ray's (or producer John Houseman's) thoughts on the idea of using the helicopter? Perhaps production notes or memos, or personal papers stashed in an archive somewhere? For such an innovative (at the time) choice, the biographies I'm familiar with (Allen, Eisenschitz, Andrew, Kriedl) make only the briefest mention of the use. Reply to: [log in to unmask] Many thanks, Scott Ruston ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org