Sisters #2

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We might get cold.

That's like a pretty warm water.

That's pretty warm.

Are we going to start putting some water in? Well, you're going to call them in, right? Yep.

Why don't you call them in from over here and they'll walk around with your camera.

I'll call them in from this way.

We're running out of garbage over there.

We'll retract that.

Hey, lady, you're ready.

For what? You're ready.

For what? For what? For your photograph.

We'll hold everything.

This looks pretty in here with the lights on.

I'm so cold though.

Let this door open.

Okay, what do you call it? I'll call it.

Roy, where do you want us to stand? Why don't you sit right up here? Okay.

Since I'm the shortest.

No, since you're the first one in the room.

We'll start here.

What do you call it? The dress.

Get out there.

Bring your 400 and bring it.

Boom, it's the only one that lets you go home.

Cross my legs.

Okay, I'll put these on the way.

Look at this way, though.

He's already been there.

Oh, my.

The boys are getting tired.

You look like you'd stand in the net.

Those are my only shoes.

Oh, my.

Wow, look at that.

I was going to sit.

Okay, well, let me figure it out.

I'm going to have to look at you for a while to get used to it.

Here, why don't you sit down.

I'd like to have a picture with my husband.

We don't have a single picture.

Well, then you take it somewhere else.

I have a cousin that just sent me a picture of her and her husband.

She said, Joan, please send me a recent picture of yourself.

I haven't seen her in years.

Oh, they're silly.

There's our baby sister.

Okay.

Are you the baby sister? Yeah.

Why don't you stand in the middle and the back? They won't be able to see her.

Yeah, they will.

Okay, you move around a little bit to the outside here.

Now, what are we supposed to watch? No, we're incidental.

Yeah, they're not even here.

You'd pay attention to him.

Supposedly they're not even here.

Nobody's here.

I can ignore them.

I'm just trying to figure out how long before my house is back in order.

Oh, don't worry about your house.

Oh, I see.

Oh, well.

Should we say something? No, this is going to take a while.

Who's like this? I'm pretty slow.

I mean, is there a certain point of that camera that we look at? No, not yet.

Just relax.

It's going to take me a few moments to set up here.

When he's ready.

When I'm ready, I'll let you know.

Tuck your tummies in.

We're not standing up so it doesn't matter.

Yes, it does.

After the meal I put away, it's probably twice the size.

We should be selling stocks right now.

Or listening to Channel 26.

I suppose the men are talking about stocks with the...

Yeah, but you can stay with it.

I'm going to come in with...

You can talk stocks day and night.

So can Anita.

Okay.

Okay.

What I want to do is move the two stools just a little bit closer together.

So why don't you get up here? I don't know.

Yeah.

See the stool? There's your sweater.

Yeah.

There's a lot of patience.

Yeah.

Maybe you two should change places.

Because you're taller, Catherine.

You can see it.

All right.

Okay.

That's good.

Don't forget your mother, John.

John, tell her how to...

Okay, that looks good.

I'm going to take a quick poll and just see how everything is.

Check it.

You want to smiling or sober? No, we want to be sober.

You know, Anita's daughter Barbara is very photogenic.

Yeah, she likes paraphorsics.

I never take a good picture.

Lots of pictures have been taken of you ladies.

Oh, and I hate to be photographed.

Oh, no.

Okay.

Turn you in just a little bit.

Show your shoulders.

Oh.

Look at the television, Al.

Okay.

Everyone look at me now.

What's that story? The grandfather.

They took pictures ten minutes previously.

I have a picture of myself that I found the other day at home.

I didn't know I had.

I hung it up in the TV room and I looked at it.

Could I have looked like that at one time? Oh, at one time we were pretty.

What was that? That's when we were young.

I wouldn't say that.

I remember the fellows standing on the corner waiting for me to get off of the, you know, coming home from work.

One of them drew a cartoon of my legs and put down million dollar legs.

I should have kept that to know those years.

We all can tell stories.

Yeah, when I came back from my honeymoon, that guy took a picture of me on the beach.

And then he came over to punch his mother's.

He wanted me to pose for a summer resort.

He was so my life.

No way.

No way? How come? No.

The women weren't deliberately at the time.

That's right.

I don't think they're liberated.

They're going to find out that they did wrong by becoming liberated.

They're still liberated.

Men and women will never be equal.

I don't know if they're fighting for better off the way they are at the present time.

They still have the same benefits.

Okay, I agree with that.

I'm going to let you come in.

Every woman finds out.

I was always liberated.

I don't know what it means by being liberated.

Okay, everybody's good.

Look at the camera.

I'm going to tilt you in just a little bit as you were before.

Just a little bit.

Just turn a little bit this way.

Smile, Joan.

And everyone looks great.

Okay, look at the camera.

Look at me.

Smile.

Good.

Oh, that was nice.

That's a good one.

Let me take about four more just like that.

Come in.

Can I slip behind you? Let's get you.

Good, okay.

Let me take about four more.

Photographers are terrible counters.

That's good.

Oops.

How are we doing here? Should I move it into the light? Yeah, you can take a step this way.

Okay, hold it right there with the light.

I didn't see one.

Look in the television.

You'll see yourself.

Oh, I didn't.

I was wondering what you were talking about.

See Joan? Okay, this is a Polaroid.

It's a little bit light.

The film will be darker.

This is cute.

Yes, Alice, you look adorable.

Big deal.

Big deal.

It's nice.

Alice looks so slender under you.

She looks just like a sliver of a sliver.

She's hiding behind the whole movie.

You! That's good.

I'll tell you.

She knows how to pose.

Look at his complexion, girls.

All these boys have that beautiful skin.

I look like I have a fat face on there.

You do? Yes, I do.

I don't have a fat face.

Well, it's the Polaroid, I think.

When you see the film, the lighting looks different.

I wish I had my glasses.

Your picture was cute.

I'll take a few more with a different lens.

That will correct it.

Everyone will be slender.

I'm not going to smile anymore now.

That's good, Alice.

I'm sideways now.

Could you turn so you're facing...

There you go.

You're sitting up real straight.

I want you to stay straight, but relax a little.

Just relax.

Everybody relax a little.

That's nice.

That's good.

Come in a little bit closer.

That's a nice one.

These are going to be terrific.

Okay.

Good.

That was nice.

They're all the same.

No, they're not.

You'll be surprised.

Each one of them will have a different expression.

That's right.

You'll be surprised I took it there.

I'm going to switch lenses.

Stay where you are, but relax.

Christmas trees, red and green.

That's all right.

That's what they want.

Turtle.

Oh, they want this? Yeah.

Good luck.

What? I didn't see it.

Okay, now everyone's going to get in real tight.

Closer together.

Okay, first I think I'm going to move the stools just a little closer together.

They can only go a little bit closer.

There.

Okay.

Can we have one standing in the front? He knows what he's doing.

I think it's best that we have him.

Sit down.

It's hard to get the whole thing in there.

That's good.

Oh, that's real nice.

Everybody nice and tight in like that.

Okay.

I think you had a good idea having someone in the middle.

I'm going to try and figure out how we can do that though.

I'm going to chair in the middle now.

Actually, I think if you could just squeeze in a little bit more.

There we go.

Everybody get real tight in like that.

There, that's good.

Okay, hey, that's real nice.

Great.

We have it now.

I'm going to have to squeeze you out.

Okay, one, two, three, four.

Okay, relax now.

Sit up straight, but relax.

There you go.

Great, that's nice.

Good.

That was a nice one.

Okay, let's have a big smile for everybody.

Okay, good.

Hey, that was great.

That's fine.

I think we have it.

That's enough, huh? I think we have it.

Do you want individual shots? No, I want it.

Oh, yeah, come on.

It's all set up.

I died for my kids.

Okay.

We're all set up.

We might as well do an individual shot.

All right.

I would like one with Joe.

No, I'm not.

No, Joe.

Because this is just a fan.

What do you think, John? Yeah, we've got to have individual shots.

Yeah.

Okay.

So what, are you standing? Who's individual now? One at a time.

Yeah, John first or what? I'm not.

Should have worn a dress.

Oh, dear.

Is it Joe? Yeah.

Well, where is she going to stand, here? Yeah, she's just going to be on the stool.

Oh, on the stool? I won't have one standing? Do you want to stand? Yeah.

Okay, then I'll just move the stool.

No, I want one standing.

Good.

That's okay.

I'll just move the stool away and you can stand.

An individual one.

Stand right here.

Okay.

A little bit back.

Okay, right there.

That's very good.

Tuck that tummy in.

Oh, after all that food.

Okay, I'm going to shoot one close up and then I'll shoot a few.

I'll move back.

Okay? Okay.

Should I smile? Yeah, that would be nice.

I think you should have invited some 20 year old girls here.

They didn't want, no, they wanted for them.

Okay, we're in a big smile now.

Good, that was nice.

That's why they wanted ramp and ramp, the pictures and stuff like that.

Yeah, I don't know.

I should have brought them.

I forgot all about it.

Okay, why don't you turn to the light with your body.

No, don't come any closer.

Actually step back a little bit.

Turn to the light with your body.

Tilt it down.

This way? Yeah, move your feet so your right foot is back.

There you go.

Okay, a little bit more.

There you go.

Now turn to me with your hands.

Are your hands all right? Her hands are fine.

That's good.

I could just.

Okay, now look.

Come again, chest out.

That was a great, that was nice.

He said, look how many pictures he's taken of her.

That's enough now.

No, no, a few more.

Okay, now look at me.

Turn back to where you were.

Okay, now turn to me.

Good.

That was nice.

Okay.

I'll be crying after I see myself.

No, don't say that.

That was nice.

Let me take one more just a second.

Jeez, I should have counted the Lord.

Which word can I hide? Good.

Thank you, that was very nice.

Who's next? I don't like to pose like that.

I don't like to pose with my hands.

It's all right, your hands aren't in the photograph.

Would you rather sit on the stool or would you rather sit on the chair? I'm going to sit over there and watch the television.

Tell me what to do with my hands.

No, your hands aren't going to be in the picture.

No.

How's his face? It's just your face, so you don't have to worry about your hands.

Oh.

John, you have a pretty smile, so smile, big smile.

Animated, animated.

Now, come on, one more.

Okay, now we're going to, okay.

Now look back at me, look up at me, smile.

Okay, turn down.

Turn back to me, smile.

Good, that was a great one, that was real nice.

That'll be a very nice one.

That was a good picture.

Now, you wait and see.

Oh, we're going by our age.

Will we see a picture tonight, one of them? Oh, no.

Anita, sit there and you can watch.

You saw that.

It's just a face, huh? Yes, it's a face.

Why don't you turn so your face is facing it.

So your whole body is working.

Okay, a little bit more this way.

Yeah, I just asked if it doesn't say underneath.

It says something Anita.

Okay, a little bit more to the left.

It says China, that's all.

Okay, now look at me with your eyes.

Good, big smile.

It's like kind of a design, you know.

Well, I did have to change it.

Good, let me do one more.

Oh, John, sit down.

That's it, huh? Yeah, that was good.

Oh, I'm next.

You're going by the age, huh? All right, tell me what to do, Bruce.

Okay, just sit up there.

Sit? Yeah, you can relax better if you sit.

Are you comfortable like that, just sitting with your head there? I'm miserable.

Well, I never said it would be fun.

It's kind of like going to the dentist.

Okay, that's good.

Smile pretty now.

That's real nice.

Sweet woman.

That's a big smile there.

That's great.

Big smile.

Open your eyes, big smile.

Okay, well that was a funny one.

We'll do that.

Big smile.

Good, that was nice.

Let me do one like this here.

Good, that was nice.

Okay? Yeah.

Oh, brother.

Oh, you can't go that way.

You'd rather sit like that? Yeah.

Okay, why don't you just twist this way a little bit.

Okay, just like that.

Good.

Good, that was nice.

Okay, relax your face, relax your eyebrows.

Just relax a little bit.

Okay, your shoulders are nice.

Okay, that's good.

That was very nice.

Potatoes.

Instant mashed potatoes.

Okay, I'll get one a little bit closer.

I'll take a few more shots here.

Hey, that was great.

Okay, now that you've relaxed, sit back down.

We'll do one more.

Sideways? Yeah, just like you would.

Great, that was the best one.

That's pretty.

That's it.

Is that your profession? Is it comfortable? It can be comfortable.

Take pictures of nudies? Nudies, well, a little bit.

Not too well, but it's not a specialty.

Jani, why don't you explain to them about what this is all about? Because they don't know.

I try to tell them, but...

We'd like to know a little something about the background of it.

I'm afraid to speak too loudly in the microphone.

Do you want me to explain it to them? Well, you'd better explain it to them.

It's going to be a documentary about the Five Sisters.

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