One day the subject was informed as he arrived at work that a video crew would be coming to tape some behind-the-scenes activities in the making of the film. The idea was to make a TV documentary on how the film was made which would be broadcast after the film's initial run--in the event it was a box-office success. The subject thought of George's remark about a film being exclusively a profit-making vehicle. When the crew arrived, he was putting the final touches on the decorations of a narrow, winding stairway that was supposed to lead from the dungeon of the Czar's fortress to the ramparts. The scene to be filmed here was a duel between the rebel hero and the Czar's chief Cossack. The filming itself was a complicated procedure requiring a crane mechanism mounted on two sets of tracks hung from the studio ceiling. The sequence was, of course, entirely a studio simulation, with continuity created by a few shots at either end of the sequence of the dungeon and the ramparts at the castle they had used on location.