If Hollywood uses fake snow for winter scenes, how do they stage a snowball fight with snow that can actually be compacted into snowballs and leaves snow residue when striking something. Would they really bother to truck in real snow?
Sometimes, they just shoot that day up in the Angeles National Forest, where there’s real snow much of the year.
I have a memory as a little kid of having a “snow day” where trucks brought in snow and dumped it in the playground. The weirdest thing? Some of the kids had sleds that they brought.
Sure, you live in LA, you have a sled, just in case. Or for when you go up in the mountains, I guess, but…
But at any rate. This is just to confirm that yes, snow can be brought in, in trucks, and you can make snowballs out of it. It was a little gritty, but I thought that was just how snow was. Now I live in Denver and know a lot more about it.
Hollywood…anything for a laugh, huh? The show must go on!
They did the same thing in Seattle a few years ago - filled up 27 trucks with snow from the Cascades and dumped it in a playground next to the Space Needle. They sold tickets for charity and staged a Guinness record attempt for the world’s largest snowball fight. It was fun.
Probably use a snow making machine.
You wouldn’t have to “truck” much in: you could use a mixture of real and fake snow depending on how much interaction with it you need.
They roll a softball in glue, then roll it in coconut shavings.
Modern snowmaking is nothing short of phenomenal.
Snow making machines only work at a narrow range of temperatures and conditions, most of which are not common in the Los Angeles basin.
When I lived in LA, sometimes I’d see a pickup truck drive down from the hills with the truck bed full of real snow with jokers in the back making snowballs and throwing them at pedestrians. In 90 degree weather.
Or I used to see scenes set up for filming with fake snow all over, surrounded by movie trucks. The advantage of fake snow is it doesn’t melt.