I'm the director of 'A Beautiful Day

in the Neighborhood.'

"And trolley.

Action."

[MUSIC PLAYING]

So this scene is when Matthew Rhys's character, Lloyd

Vogel, has shown up to the studio

to meet Fred Rogers for the first time.

And they've had their first very short interview,

and he has a chance to watch them

film one of the episodes from the Neighborhood

in the Land of Make Believe.

"Hello, Lady Aberlin."

"Oh, hi, Daniel."

So technically, it was a very tricky scene.

We filmed what we called 'inside the show.'

Anything that was in the program, we filmed

on these Ikegami cameras, these tube cameras

that were just like the original cameras they

filmed the real program on.

We had a live feed going to these monitors,

and then we were filming on a digital Alexa camera,

so we were capturing two physical formats

of the show at the same time.

So all of the cameras that you're

seeing that look like props, they're

actually working cameras that are also filming

the program inside the show.

And we wanted to recreate the way they really made

the show, so we filmed it in the actual studio where they

filmed 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood' originally

in Pittsburgh.

We recreated the set in the exact same orientation

that they had it as well and really looked

at plans of where they would have had their cameras,

and then we set up our cameras sort of one step behind that

so we could kind of pull back and watch

the making of the show.

"(SINGING) When the whole wide world seems oh so wrong

and nothing you do seems very right."

But we didn't want to get too bogged down

with the technical aspects of this scene

because what's actually happening in the scene

is Lloyd is having a very big emotional turning point that

starts to happen to him there, and that's

more important than any of the technical aspects that

are happening.

"(SINGING) I can stop when I want to, can stop when I

wish."

And then my secret is Tom Hanks

didn't actually know that I was focusing

on him for this scene.

He thought we were really just focusing

on Daniel Tiger and Lady Aberlin and the scene

as it was being captured for the program,

but we were on Zoom lenses, which means the camera wasn't

actually pushing toward him.

We were just zooming into him.

He figured it out after a few takes,

but he was so busy concentrating

on the puppeteering that he was actually

doing that he was not really very aware of what he

was doing inside that clock.

And so we used one of the takes

before he realized that I was actually focusing on him.

"Thank you, Lady Aberlin."

"Thank you, Daniel."

"I feel better."

"Oh, I'm so glad."