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Diary 8/8 On Friday we left Bozeman in the early afternoon and arrived in Butte in time to shoot scenes of Emily walking at the flats looking for a job. After that Kristine and Rob and I enjoyed pizza at the Ippity Bop, just a block from our hotel in east Butte. Kristine and I then caught the Greyhound to Missoula while Rob went back to Bozeman to enjoy the Sweet Pea Arts Festival there with our old friends Brandal and Dan Glenn. While in Bozeman we had spent time with our old friend Brandal and his two daughters. We had gotten a wonderful genealogy interview from Brandal. My brother Dan joined us in Missoula, and he drove us from there back to Butte on Sunday afternoon. On this drive I looked, really looked, at the short stunted trees between Anaconda and Butte. I had imagined that the best terrain to show with Irene's approach to Butte would be the faces of rock on the Homestake pass, but now I was not so sure. These trees were spooky, and the shorter Greyhound bus ride from Anaconda made more sense for our movie plans. We got into Butte around 3 in the afternoon and checked into the Finlen. Rob arrived around 4, and we saw only a few traces of the great motorcycle rally of the weekend. There was a gyros stand across the street from the Blue Venus coffee shop and a few biker looking types here and there, but not much activity around the Dumas. There were a few kids hanging around an evangelists' tent set up across the street from the Dumas but not much activity. While waiting for Rob we had stopped at the Blue Venus for a juice and we were the only ones there.
Dan dressed as Frank. Rob taped the carbide lamp onto the silver helmet we had bought at the salvation army last week. Dan had a big pair of coveralls and we used a pair of work boots donated by Dan Glenn. My brother Dan carried the lunch pail we had gotten at the antique store on Broadway and Dan, in his miner's costume, drove us all up to the Marus Daly statue at the Montana Tech campus. There we shot a new scene that I wrote last week of Frank walking up to the statue and taking off his hat at the image of the copper king. We then spent the next hour or so shooting extra shots of Dan/Frank walking through a West side neighborhood and Walkerville, the city named after the great banking Walker Brothers, but which today seemed all but forgotten in its perch up and over the Butte hill. Especially striking to us was a public playground, which looked so sad and deserted with its yellow grass and barren equipment. We bought some supplies at K-mart, where a clerk asked us, "If I may, which state or province are you from?" and then on to Albertson's to pick up food. With two days of filming under our belt we readied for bed, getting ready for our first big day, Monday, the first full day of shooting, and the first day that we would have our entire cast and our production assistant Megan all here in Butte, together and working. This page last updated 21 August 1999 http://www.sloppyfilms.com/buttemagic/diary88.html
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