Yes, that’s right!
(Anyone else have to read that twice, because “Morn” looked like “Mom”?)
Something from Deadpool and Wolverine, which I’ve seen about six tlmes now in two months.
And I didn’t even notice this myself, until it was pointed out to me via a REACTION video…During the fight scene in the Honda Odyssey, Wolverine smashes Deadpool’s head a few times against the radio before it eventually ends up on YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I WANT from the Grease soundtrack…but the first channel you hear that plays a snippit is the opening chorus of THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW from Hugh Jackman’s musical. I wondered why it always sounded familiar.
I have the ‘Today Show’ on in the background when I’m starting my day; often with the sound off, only unmuting if something interesting comes on. About 15 minutes ago I saw there was a segment about Martin Guitars, so-- unmute. They were talking to Chris Martin-- not the Coldplay guy, but the 6th generation president of Martin Guitar.
They mentioned that Martin Guitar was based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania and a light bulb went off: “I wonder if that’s the Nazareth referenced in the first line of ‘The Weight’, because it’s the home of Martin Guitar?”
Pulled in to Nazareth, I was feelin’ 'bout half-past dead
Sure enough, I looked it up. and the story goes that when Robby Robertson was writing the song, he looked into the sound hole of his '51 Martin, saw the manufacturer stamp said ‘Nazareth, PA’, and had his location for the first line.
And wrote one of the great lyrics in music history.
I was listening to Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Novel Please Pass the Guilt for the umpteenth time today, and for the first time I noticed that, when Wolfe asks how Sergeant Cramer knew that he’d had many of the principals of the crime scene over to his office, Archie answered that Kenneth Meer called Sergeant Rowcliffe. That throwaway line never registered with me before, but it’s important.
…because near the end of the story Wolfe wants to know if there’s any way that Copes could have found out that there was a container of LSD involved. I wonder if this unexpected connection between Meers and Rowcliffe suggested a similar connection with someone else.
Interesting. I re-read all his book every couple of years.
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched, Charlie X (Star Trek: TOS); I was bored this past Saturday so added a viewing to the tally. At one point, Charlie is walking down a hallway and watches a crewman feed tubing through a duct in the deck (a light shines from below). The duct is constructed of SILVER SPRAY-PAINTED PLYWOOD! There’s no mistaking that swirl pattern. I plotzed!
I remember watching an old episode of The Lone Ranger on our new 90s-era TV and realizing that the door the characters were standing in front of was painted.
@JohnT, I see you noted that you were watching on your “new 90s-era TV.” Of course TVs have only gotten bigger and more high-resolution since then.
I’m sure that TV producers back in the ‘50s and ‘60s never thought about their shows ever being seen on large high-resolution screens.
And it’s only gonna get more noticeable.
I know Roddenberry and crew were on a tight budget, but wasn’t there something laying around that would have been more convincing than plywood?
Painted plywood on a 21-inch screen at 480i resolution was plenty good. Anything else would have been wasted money for a show with a per-episode budget under $200,000 (in 1965 dollars). As @robby says, no one expected it would ever be seen at 4K resolution.
A related anecdote. When I worked in the IMAX theater at the National Air and Space Museum in the 1980s, we had sci-fi film festivals for a few years. We were able to borrow 35mm prints of some ST-TOS episodes from Paramount.
We didn’t project them to fill the IMAX screen, of course (we couldn’t have if we had wanted to), but the image was probably about 25 feet (7.6 m) tall on the theater’s 55x75-foot (16.8x22.9 m) screen.
In one episode there was a fight scene in the engine room and when they cut to the long shots of Kirk and whoever fighting, it was plain as day that both men were stunt doubles, not Shatner and whoever. The audience erupted in laughter.
“From the World of John Wick: Ballerina”
In the scene where “The Cult” violates the rules and conducts business in the Continental Hotel in an attempt to reacquire a child who belongs to them. The ballerina, Eve Macarro, is going hand to hand with an enemy and, weaponless, she sees and acquires a remote control which she uses as a weapon to bludgion her opponent. I saw that scene 3 times before I realized that, every time she slammed her in the side of the head with the remote, the channel on the TV in the background changed. LOL
What’s worse is when you see old costumes up close, in a museum display or the like. A cosplayer would be ashamed to be seen in something so crude.
Took my kids to a Comic Con, where one of the propmeisters for Star Wars showed how they built some of the “high tech” stuff out of electric shavers and snowblower parts.
Hilariously obvious up close…
I saw a quote that the fun thing about doing Dr Who cosplay is you’re working with the same budget as the original series!
Before Desi Arnaz invented the rerun TV producers never thought about their shows being seen more than once.
Jackie Gleason and company actually performed a number of “Honeymooners” scripts multiple times. It was live TV. As has been mentioned, nobody expected the shows to be aired again, and many of the kinescopes were not even saved.
So if a script went over well once, Gleason would recycle it a year or two later. Most viewers probably didn’t even notice.
In movie-making the props and costumes are only as good as is needed to be. In Bite the Bullet, about an endurance horse race, and the organizers are following along in a chartered train. Those scenes were on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway, a tourist line using former D&RG trackage. The train was only in the background and the coaches were a medium green with a large elliptical medallion in the center with an eagle.
Some eight years later I rode the railroad and the coaches had not had their Hollywood make-up removed. Up close the eagle looked terrible, just sort of a vague suggestion of the bird but in the movie the train looked just fine.
For clarity, are you talking about actual antique period clothes seen in a museum of history, or displays of costumes from a TV show or movie in a museum of TV?
In the latter case, I presume they either weren’t hero costumes, or else they have deteriorated over time.
(In case anyone doesn’t know, “hero” is a term used in movie/ TV making for detailed props and costumes that are seen in close up, and may have moving parts. For example a hero gun may have a trigger that can be pulled by the actor, and then returns to position. Prop guns used by background characters may be solid objects without moving parts, and are cheaper to make. )
My old cable provider at one point offered a channel called something like HDTV, which unsurprisingly offered HD programming. 1990s, I had a TV that was HD for the time. Much to my surprise, one of the offerings was Hogan’s Heroes, which looked great. I’m assuming it was filmed and not videotaped, allowing for the resolution.