Movies filmed in front of a live audience?

[Manatee]

@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.

How about in the (admittedly, smallish) bleachers that some studios set up for this purpose?

[DrDeth]

Isn’t *part * of the Aristocrats filmed in front of an audience?

[MovieMogul]

@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.

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.

[marshmallow]

Significant portions of An Inconvenient Truth has Al Gore speaking in filled lecture halls.

[Walloon]

Are you sure you’re not thinking of the car chase in The French Connection? Because the car chase 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.

[Ethilrist]

@Walloon

Are you sure you’re not thinking of the car chase in The French Connection? Because the car chase 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.

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 | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos"Ask.Yahoo.com:

The unplanned car crashes, unknowing extras, and acclaimed editing helped give Popeye’s pursuit an ultra-realistic feel.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Slight hijack: 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.

[Walloon]

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, and she is interviewed on a making-of documentary on the DVD.

[DrDeth]

@Elendil's Heir

Slight hijack: 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.

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.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@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.

This is Hollywood we’re talkin’ about, baby. Of course it’s fraud.