HISTORY CASTING
"When you need it yesterday!"

LDI Casting, PO Box 7105,
Warwick, RI 02886

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HISTORY CASTING is the teaming of Anne Mulhall of LDI Casting with Duncan B. Putney to create a unique service to producers shooting in New England:

• First and foremost, a casting source of quality historic reenactors for background performers as well as experienced professional actors to portray historic characters.
• Second, a source for historical consultants and period locations for filming.

The director of LDI, Anne Mulhall, has extensive experience casting film, television, theatre, commercials and print while Duncan Putney has the experience as an historic film and television consultant, actor and writer with many ties to the reenacting hobby. When you need historical texture, when you need historical accuracy, when you need economy, when you need it to be yesterday then you need History Casting from LDI.

HISTORIC REENACTORS and ACTORS

Reenactors are hobbyists, who through hours of research, documentation and rehearsal accurately recreate a period of history. These reenactors are a valuable resource for film and television producers. By using these reenactors as background performers not only will you have a visually and texturally authentic background, but you will save time and money as these reenactors provide there own wardrobe, props and equipment and they do not need to be taught the activity that they are engaged in. They show up on set ready to go. Many have additional period equipment such as complete taverns, military encampments, whaleboats, cannon, blacksmith forges, kitchens, medical equipment, and much more; your prop master will be amazed.

There are also actors who have taken the time to research and portray well known historical figures, many with critically acclaimed one person shows. These actors not only look, dress and act like the historic character, but they can converse with you as if they were indeed that person. These actors are a resource that is underused by producers of period film, television, commercials and print projects.

History Casting has found Revolutionary war soldiers for a parade scene in Clint Eastwood's film "Mystic River," turn of the century baseball players with vintage uniforms and equipment for the independent film "By The Sea" (Performance Partners Organization), accurately costumed 18th century sailors and French soldiers to crew on the historic sloop Providence for the PBS miniseries "Ben Franklin" (Middlemarch Films), a location scouting for a PBS American Experience project, and we have been consulting on several scripts and projects in pre-production. You can also read about us in the January '03 issue of IMAGINE MAGAZINE.

HISTORIC CONSULTANTS

History Casting has access to some of the top people in their fields, PhDs, authors, artists, master craftsmen, and collectors. Historic consultants are a great help with script consultation, in constructing accurate costumes for principal performers, training principal performers and extras in the use of period weapons and tools. They can assist designers, decorators, costumers, prop persons and stylists in constructing or acquiring accurate period details.

PERIOD LOCATIONS

History Casting is compiling a file of period locations that can accurately portray your historic setting without the intrusion of the modern world in your shot. We have period, houses, taverns, forts, ships and farms for your locations scouts to look at. This can be a huge savings in time for your production.

CONTACT US

• Producers click here to email Casting Director
• Historic Reenactors click here to email Reenactor Coordinator

Interested historic reenactors who would like to be included in our casting files, please print the registration form and send it along with a picture via U.S. Postal Service. Please note: for security reasons, LDI will not download attachments unless we have specifically requested them.

Registration Form: GIF format, PDF format