# Airplane! movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362 "2020-07-26T03:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/181 "2020-08-19T16:44:17Z")
And see my post 163 above. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/182 "2020-08-19T17:13:48Z")
My dad worked for a time as a photographer with his own studio. I remember him using a bellows camera well into the '60s, when he went into other lines of work. Granted, this was not the '80s, but old technology does tend to hang around a while, even when newer stuff is available. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/183 "2020-08-19T17:32:53Z")
Yep- given the option, a larger format bellows camera for studio/ portraiture is always preferred. Some use 4x5 cameras today. There are production stills shot by Barry Sonnenfeld, the D.P. and Director on sets of movies he directed in the last 15-20 years where he used a 4x5 camera. I was referring more to in the field news shooting. The delicate nature of the unfolding bellows and the mediocre smaller lenses gave way to better SLRs. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/184 "2020-08-19T18:16:26Z")
Right, though I do remember him using the bellows just to take family photos around the house. (He did eventually buy a Polaroid Land camera for such purposes.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/185 "2020-08-20T14:42:20Z")
That’s a completely different kind of camera altogether! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/186 "2020-08-20T17:18:54Z")
That’s a completely different kind of camera. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/187 "2020-08-21T06:48:57Z")
You’d better tell the Captain. We’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital. A hospital? What is it? It’s a big building with patients. But that’s not important right now. Tell the Captain I must speak to him. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/188 "2020-08-21T14:01:32Z")
Hello, I’m Paul Carey from the airline. I’m here to pick up Capt. Kramer…? ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/189 "2020-08-21T18:37:19Z")
As Rifftrax put it for Cat Women of the Moon: Leonard ’ I Never Say No’ Bernstein. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/190 "2020-08-21T19:36:05Z")
Wrong Bernstein … (unless I just got whooshed.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/191 "2020-08-21T20:08:45Z")
“Oh, yes, come in, Paul. Rex will be right down.” ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/192 "2020-08-22T06:21:02Z")
Damn it!!..It was Elmer who did Cat Women on the Moon! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/193 "2020-08-23T01:20:10Z")
“Shep, sit! Sit!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/194 "2020-08-23T03:24:34Z")
**[Close-up of a jiggling mound of Jell-O topped with a pineapple ring and a cherry; slow pan to a close-up of two big jiggling boobs.]** ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/195 "2020-08-23T14:20:56Z")
“So, I understand you have a real emergency down there.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/196 "2020-08-23T17:01:08Z")
“Lots of people had plans for after the war. So did George Zip.” ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/197 "2020-08-23T19:14:26Z")
That’s Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shell-shock. Thinks he’s Ethel Merman. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/198 "2020-08-23T19:47:14Z")
“Yeah, something like that, but as I said, they didn’t have time to tell me very much.” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/199 "2020-08-23T22:03:06Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I’ve lived in NYC and surrounding areas since 1981. When first in the city, attending college, the city was filled with classic metal and glass phone booths. In schools, office buildings, etc. I rarely found one on the street but they were there. Yeah, but we’re talking airports here. I’ve never seen a phone booth in an airport. Just wall mounted payphones with perhaps half-high partitions between them. The movie showed a bank of _wooden_ phone booths in the airport, which was improbable and obviously a joke that went with the journalists wearing trench coats and hats and shooting with bellows cameras. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362/200 "2020-08-23T22:07:48Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Yeah, but we’re talking airports here. I’ve never seen a phone booth in an airport. Just wall mounted payphones with perhaps half-high partitions between them. The movie showed a bank of _wooden_ phone booths in the airport, At the time the film was made, there were still those style of phone booths in a few older office buildings. (SF Bay Area) Not the airports, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362.md?page=11)