# Film Clips in Diane Keaton's "Heaven" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-clips-in-diane-keatons-heaven/700814 "2014-10-09T00:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-clips-in-diane-keatons-heaven/700814/1 "2014-10-09T00:39:27Z")
Recently I saw Diane Keaton’s documentary Heaven for the first time in about twenty years. The film uses numerous clips from old black-and-white films to illustrate what interviewees say. Some of the films sampled are extremely obscure, and I should like very much to identify some of them. I am intrigued by these clips in particular: 1.) A sequence in which a man falls into an enclosure filled with circus lions and is mauled. 2.) A sequence in which a crowd of black men who appear to be at some kind of Shriners-type meeting stare silently in awe at terror just to the side of the camera. 3.) A sequence showing a pendulum clock mounted to a diorama of the continental 48 states. 4.) A sequence showing several barren-looking planets or moons suspended in space. The camera zooms in so one of the planets seems to smash up against the screen. I have it in mind that the last two scenes I described above may be from an old Sunday School film or something similar. The first two scenes definitely look as though they are from lower budget 1930s films. As I mentioned, I last saw the movie Heaven about twenty years ago. There is a sequence I remember from that earlier viewing which left a vivid impression on me, but it is not in the version of the movie that is now available on YouTube. It showed a man running frantically down a corridor towards the camera as he is pursued by a lion. Does anyone know of an old movie with a scene such as this? Could it be that this scene appears in some versions of Heaven but not others? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-clips-in-diane-keatons-heaven/700814/2 "2014-10-09T01:14:08Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-clips-in-diane-keatons-heaven/700814/3 "2014-10-09T15:46:38Z")
Not an answer but another question: Didn’t Keaton also direct the video for Belinda Carlisle’s song _Heaven On Earth_? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-clips-in-diane-keatons-heaven/700814/4 "2014-10-10T15:38:58Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Not an answer but another question: Didn’t Keaton also direct the video for Belinda Carlisle’s song _Heaven On Earth_? This one I can answer (only because the answer is on wikipedia). The answer is yes. [QUOTE=wikipedia] The promotional video was directed by Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton and features an appearance of Carlisle’s husband Morgan Mason. [/QUOTE] from the wikipedia article for “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”