# Movies filmed in front of a live audience? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 12, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075 "2006-11-12T04:46:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/21 "2006-11-14T18:21:20Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] Other than the techical crew, not usually, if at all. Most silent studios were like factories: several films working at once, and there really wasn’t anywhere to put an audience. [/QUOTE] How about in the (admittedly, smallish) bleachers that some studios set up for this purpose? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/22 "2006-11-14T18:41:38Z")
Isn’t \*part \* of the Aristocrats filmed in front of an audience? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/23 "2006-11-14T23:01:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] On the other end of the spectrum, when they filmed the chase scene in _Bullitt_, they had non-extras (i.e., casual passers-by) along the side of the road and even running madly to get out of the way of the speeding cars, including a woman with a baby carriage, because they hadn’t adequately cleared the streets before starting the shoot, and some people jumped the barricades so they could get across the street. So, for those people, not so bored. [/QUOTE] Got a cite for that? Because in the late 60s, I can’t imagine a major studio with an A-level star taking such a huge liability risk. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/24 "2006-11-14T23:14:24Z")
Significant portions of **An Inconvenient Truth** has Al Gore speaking in filled lecture halls. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/25 "2006-11-14T23:49:42Z")
Are you sure you’re not thinking of the car chase in _The French Connection_? Because the [car chase](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKujjQG9II) in _Bullitt_ doesn’t have any woman with a baby carriage. And like **ArchiveGuy** said, I also can’t imagine a studio setting itself up for a huge personal injury action. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/26 "2006-11-15T14:54:17Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Are you sure you’re not thinking of the car chase in _The French Connection_? Because the [car chase](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKujjQG9II) in _Bullitt_ doesn’t have any woman with a baby carriage. And like **ArchiveGuy** said, I also can’t imagine a studio setting itself up for a huge personal injury action. [/QUOTE] My bad, it was _The French Connection,_ not _Bullitt._ From the IMDB: > [@](#): > > The car crash during the chase sequence, at the intersection of Stillwell Ave. and 86th St., was unplanned and was included because of its realism. The man whose car was hit had just left his house a few blocks from the intersection to go to work and was unaware that a car chase was being filmed. The producers later paid the bill for the repairs to his car. From [url="[Yahoo Search - Web Search](http://ask.yahoo.com/20050316.html)"[Ask.Yahoo.com](http://Ask.Yahoo.com): > [@](#): > > The unplanned car crashes, unknowing extras, and acclaimed editing helped give Popeye’s pursuit an ultra-realistic feel. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/27 "2006-11-15T18:13:54Z")
Slight hijack: [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com) says that the production crew of the Barbra Streisand/Ryan O’Neal comedy _What’s Up, Doc?_ rented two cars, buying collision insurance when they did so, and then purposefully crashed them in an opening scene. The cars weren’t in the budget otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/28 "2006-11-15T20:45:21Z")
If the car chase is in _The French Connection_, the woman with the baby carriage was definitely not an uknowing pedestrian. She was stunt woman [Lora Mitchell](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1054240/), and she is interviewed on a making-of documentary on the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/29 "2006-11-15T21:06:51Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Slight hijack: [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com) says that the production crew of the Barbra Streisand/Ryan O’Neal comedy _What’s Up, Doc?_ rented two cars, buying collision insurance when they did so, and then purposefully crashed them in an opening scene. The cars weren’t in the budget otherwise. [/QUOTE] The problem with IMDB (and I love them otherwise) is that a lot of their stuff in Wiki style. If you “purposefully crashed” your cars, that’d either invalidate your claim, or the claim would be fraud. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075/30 "2006-11-16T16:27:05Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] The problem with IMDB (and I love them otherwise) is that a lot of their stuff in Wiki style. If you “purposefully crashed” your cars, that’d either invalidate your claim, or the claim would be fraud. [/QUOTE] This is Hollywood we’re talkin’ about, baby. Of course it’s fraud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-filmed-in-front-of-a-live-audience/380075.md?page=1)