Wow, why did this dinosaur topic get resurrected? [%-)]
Maybe 1964 ? [;)]
You think that the studios could find existing model railroad layouts in the LA area for photographing trains traveling through scenery and not do bad work by non modelers.
Or, they can ask Rod Stewart to photograph his trains and layout.
There’s been many good train scenes in movies over the years but,all to sadly that has given way to fantasy train scenes.Even in “Emperor Of The North” those Hollywood dudes blew several scenes.
Don’t blame me. Since it DID come back up, has anyone seen the TV commercial for some prescription drug where they show the movie model makers that “shrink” cities for movie sets? Shows the model makers walking through a huge city scene that they built. 5’ skyscrapers and cars running across what looks like a 10’ bridge. That’s some incredible modeling work! (anybody know what I’m talking about??)
MAb:
Probably to come into our houses and eat our brains. Wait, that’s what the Internet normally does…
So, am I the only one here who has ever seen END OF THE LINE, with Wilford Brimley and Kevin Bacon? It’s kind of offbeat and interesting.
That would be impractical.
Professional motion picture equipment is large and bulky and wouldn’t fit into most MRR’s basements/layout rooms. Then there’s the need for power. And the heat that proper lighting generates (I remember an MR story that mentioned a TV commercial shot in someone’s cramped basement–the lights began to have an effect on the plastic models.)
There would be no way to add actors to the scene; most model railroads can barely accomodate operators without them bumping into each other. Camera angles would belimited by the fact that that layout’s already built in place.
Certainly, model railroad layouts would not work to stand in for the “real world,” if that’s what you meant. They would never hold up to being projected on a wall-sized screen, and even if carefully detailed, they’re not created to allow for various camera angles the director would want.
It is much easier for the studio to commission a “layout” designed specifically to be photographed than to bring the entire producction to one already built as an operating model railroad.
BTW, Rod’s layout is on the third floor. That’d just be more work for the crew, bringing gear into a home and upstairs…without damaging anything.
Yes, I’ve seen it. There is some fantasic modeling there. I think the AD is for a drug that ‘shrinks’ the prostate so the modelers don’t have to be running to the bathroom all the time. See - the AD worked! I remembered what type of drug they were advertising (but not the name).
Too bad CGI is slowly making the movie model making profession obsolete. Those guys are talented. Think of the incredible layouts they could build (or may have).
Did anyone see the CSI (LasVegas) episode a couple weeks ago where they stop a “passenger” train to search for a bad guy and it’s a single coach in the middle of a freight train!
Then they go to search one of the box cars, the doors are wide open and it’s full of motorcycles that are just sitting there on their kickstands, no crates, and nothing holding them down or in place! Assuming they were not stolen right out the open door first, by the time they got to their destination they would have all fallen over into eachother and be damaged.
| I remeber ‘‘Shinning Time’’ had a episode when there was a 44 Tonner acting as a Steam Enengine! Now that was CHEESY! |
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Did someone say cheese? I know you were talking about cheese. So where is it?
Comm’on guys. Where is it?
For all you Supertrain fans out there:
http://nbc_supertrain.tripod.com/index.html