# "Tin Man" TV series shot in hydroelectric plant? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tin-man-tv-series-shot-in-hydroelectric-plant/756101 "2016-05-30T17:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tin-man-tv-series-shot-in-hydroelectric-plant/756101/1 "2016-05-30T17:35:22Z")
Were the scenes showing the evil machine in the “Tin Man” TV movie series shown in a hydroelectric plant? The machine certainly looks to me like a row of real hydroelectric turbines and generators of maybe century old vintage. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tin-man-tv-series-shot-in-hydroelectric-plant/756101/2 "2016-05-30T17:45:56Z")
**Moderator Action** Since this concerns the art of movie making, let’s move it to Cafe Society. Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tin-man-tv-series-shot-in-hydroelectric-plant/756101/3 "2016-05-30T17:47:32Z")
One of the locations listed on IMDB for the movie series is Cleveland Dam in north Vancouver. So it’s possible. Got a link to images or footage from the movie that shows what you think are generators? ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tin-man-tv-series-shot-in-hydroelectric-plant/756101/4 "2016-05-30T18:01:09Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > One of the locations listed on IMDB for the movie series is Cleveland Dam in north Vancouver. So it’s possible. Got a link to images or footage from the movie that shows what you think are generators? Very nice lead! This is the closest thing I could find to similar looking machines (they are indeed hydroelectric generators, and they have horizontal shafts like the machines in the movie): [![](http://www.maineindustrial.com/DSCN1292.jpg) ](http://www.maineindustrial.com/DSCN1292.jpg) The few indoor images I find by searching Cleveland Dam in Vancouver show generators with vertical shafts, though the images I saw don’t actually say they are of that dam’s generators. If Cleveland Dam has generators with vertical shafts, then that’s not it. I didn’t find any images about the movie that showed the machines. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tin-man-tv-series-shot-in-hydroelectric-plant/756101/5 "2016-05-30T19:12:47Z")
There are no generators at the Cleveland Dam. From [here](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hydro-power-plans-considered-for-north-shore-dams-1.1150930) > [@](#): > > The Cleveland Dam was completed in 1954 to store water for the Greater Vancouver Water District. And from Wiki > [@](#): > > The Cleveland Dam is a concrete dam at the head of the Capilano River in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that holds back Capilano Lake, also known as Capilano reservoir. Part of the Capilano River Regional Park, it is not used for generating hydroelectricity, but rather for storing a portion of the Lower Mainland’s drinking water.[1] It was started in 1951 and completed in 1954, and is named after Ernest Cleveland, first chief commissioner of the Greater Vancouver Water District.