The film was shot with color film in a gray-and-white setting, and after post-processing, it became a pure black and white image. Many of Morrow's program lines in the film are taken from the lectures of the year, and the pictures of McCarthy in the film are all from the video at that time. The film uses features from the 1950s in the United States, such as smoking in the studio, partial haircuts, and popular jazz
. In order to achieve this, Clooney invited many prototypes of the characters in the play to the shooting site as a reference and proceed. Guidance, they have to ask these people what they are doing wrong or missing something every day; actors are also asked to watch many newspapers, movies and TV shows from the 1950s every day to figure out the way people talk and do things at the time
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The film took 30 days to complete in the CBS studio. During the filming process, because of the fear that Clooney's spondylosis would cause the film to "miscarry", the insurance company that insured the film once tightened its policy. To reassure the insurance company, Clooney mortgaged his $7 million mansion
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