# Backstory on movie "All the President's Men" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 10, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978 "2022-06-10T13:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978/21 "2022-06-10T19:57:56Z")
[https://ascmag.com/articles/flashback-all-the-presidents-men](https://ascmag.com/articles/flashback-all-the-presidents-men) A mildly technical article by the film’s cinematographer revealing how certain scenes were filmed. As per [Fun Facts about Film | All the President's Men](https://nixonscandal.wordpress.com/additional-resources/fun-facts-about-film/), the newsroom set “utilizes false perspective in the rear set area to increase the depth and scale-size for camera.” I believe I read somewhere else that the actors in the “distant” background of that set are in fact little people, not full-sized actors (a common movie production design practice). ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978/22 "2022-06-10T20:21:23Z")
Yeah, there’s a bunch of stuff like that in the trivia section of ATPM on [IMDB.com](http://IMDB.com). Very cool! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978/23 "2022-06-10T20:25:35Z")
I always liked the scene of Woodward and Bernstein in the Library of Congress going through stacks of, I think phone records. The camera switches to an overhead view and then moves up in a sequence so eventually, we see the entire reading room with them barely noticeable. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978/24 "2022-06-10T21:07:10Z")
AtPM is very high on my list of all time favorites. I also watch it periodically. Despite the fact that I have seen it many times, I still get caught up in how the investigation unfolds. > [@hogarth](#): > > So you see people talking, people walking, people walking and talking, phone books and Ben Bradlee talking. Understood. 😃 Yeah, where are all the helicopter explosions?? 🙄 mmm ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978/25 "2022-06-10T21:23:06Z")
The movie is so quiet that at the end when the teletype starts LOUDLY typing out the indictments, I always jump. I’m a sensitive soul. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978/26 "2022-06-11T18:21:22Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’d much rather listen to a podcast about Watergate than ever watch the movie again. It’s true. The car chases sucked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backstory-on-movie-all-the-presidents-men/965978.md?page=1)