Met Gala Exhibit Examines American Fashion, Frame By Frame

A scene staged by film director Martin Scorsese featuring fashions by designer Charles James and a room by architect Frank Lloyd Wright is displayed as part of the Met Museum Costume Institute's exhibit "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion," Saturday, April 30, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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By Associated Press

May 2, 2022 at 1:13 PM UTC

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May 2, 2022 at 4:32 PM UTC

New York (AP) -- Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one.

Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors are mannequins, and the costumes have been chosen for you.