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‘The Paper’ and Its Cuts: The Team Behind the Peacock Mockumentary Tells All

“We redressed the whole set to look like a 1970s newsroom. Greg Daniels and Michael Koman based it on Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries — the black-and-white film look, the texture, the gear. We brought in period costumes and typewriters, even had a few people smoking, and shot on black-and-white 16mm film. Even the aspect ratio was different from the rest of the show.”

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