RedRollingRoadblock
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The Mad Norsky wrote:The old Cartwrights seemed to be always ducking behind hay bales on Bonanza during the weekly gunfights.
Too bad that for an 1880's themed show hay bales wouldn't be around for another 80 years or so. Your dates are way off. Better take a quick read at Wikipedia.
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georgelesley
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On many current movies and TV shows during outdoor scenes no matter where they are, loon calls can be heard and are obviously put in as loons the time of year being shown and location would not be there. Hey hollywood, they are our state bird (MN) quit trying to show them all over the country just because they sound neat!
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Doug4.7
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We were watching the RiffTrax version of Twilight (the only way we could watch it, and even that was painful) and there was this stuffed armadillo that kept appearing and disappearing behind the main characters (when they were in "science" class). The RiffTrax boys had a good time with that one.
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Orion
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Hollywood-There is always a parking space available at the front of a building.
In reality- you cannot get closer than three blocks
Hollywood- Halloween costumes are ALWAYS look professionally made.
In reality- most Halloween costumes are made out of scraps & milk cartons
Hollywood-Scenes inside a casino are always full of long legged babes with short skirts.
In reality- casinos are full of old ladies with walkers!
Hollywood- fairgrounds always play circus type music & people walk around with huge teddy bears as prizes.
In reality- Most fairgrounds play heavy rock and or rap and the only prizes seen are 6" teddies or dinosaurs.
Hollywood- the view through binoculars shows two circles side by side, kind of like a figure 'eight' on its side.
In reality- Binoculars, unless there is something wrong with them, will show a single circle.
Hollywood- Spaceships blowing up make a lot of noise.
In reality- there is no sound in space.
I don't believe in astrology. I am a Gemini and
we're very skeptical.
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The Mad Norsky
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RedRollingRoadblock wrote:The Mad Norsky wrote:The old Cartwrights seemed to be always ducking behind hay bales on Bonanza during the weekly gunfights.
Too bad that for an 1880's themed show hay bales wouldn't be around for another 80 years or so. Your dates are way off. Better take a quick read at Wikipedia.
I did, and my dates are about right.
The reaper was invented back in the 1870's, but that did NOT tie cut grain or hay into a bale. The reaper tied the cut material into a bundle, mostly round in shape. We had an old reaper sitting out in the un-used machinery part of our farm, and many old photos of harvesting crews carrying bundles from the reaper to be harvested in the old stationery threshing machines of the early 1900's.
So 80 years from 1880 is 1960, and Wikipedia shows first hay baler made in 1939.
Not a bad guess then.
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lwmuddy
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Remember when they showed space ships in "Flash Gordon" films, the engine smoke was usually hovering around the ship instead of hushing out the rear.
Remember MASH and all the scenes that were supposed to be outside when they were actually inside on a sound stage.
In Bonanza, when a horse rode up the the ranch house you could hear the hoofs on the wooden stage floor.
The Pink Cadillac where Clint was having a conversation in a car going down Reno's main street?
Every time the camera was on the other person talking the direction that the car was traveling was different.
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amandasgramma
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In the movie Short Circuit they show a scene with the robot escaping across the Astoria bridge. In one flash they show where the robot is headed and you can see the Washington side, then flash back showing who he's running from. They then flash back to show where he's headed and now the other side of the bridge is actually Astoria, Oregon.
In the movie Goonies, they show the kids bicycling from the Astoria Column in Astoria to Cannon Beach ---- they do it in just minutes....Actually that's a 30-35 mile drive........!!!
In the movie The Hunted, with Tommy Lee Jones shows Tommy Lee chasing the crook from the St Johns Bridge area and catching up to him at the Oregon City water falls.......amazing chase scene considering it is easily a 15 mile difference between the two..........
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Deb and Ed M
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I can't quote a specific movie - but Hubby loves to point out in MANY older movies that the car being filmed "driving down the street" is actually in Park as designated by the position of the steering-column-mounted shift lever.
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Orion
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When doing a movie at some time in the past, Hollywood will always use cars from that exact period. If it is 1965, ALL the cars will be from that time, with the odd error of the occasional 1966 or 1967. In reality, there would have been many cars from earlier periods. Also in these movies, all the cars are nice & shiny.
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salem
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Ever notice that a lot of cars in movies, depending on how the passangers are viewed, do not have rear view mirrors? They would have interfered with the scene.
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