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I watched "Hoosiers" tonight. It's the movie about a small school in Indiana that beats a big city school for the basketball state championship. Gene Hackman plays the out of town first year coach. I haven't watched it in years and it wasn't as good as I remembered.
Anyhow, the movie takes place in the 1951-52 school year. There were a lot of old iron to look at in the movie. But I did notice one automotive mistake. Can you see it? It's something I did not notice the earlier times I saw Hoosiers since I wasn't as well versed in Ford truck minutiae then.
Years ago a good friend of mine and I went to the movies, "Tootsie" I believe was the film. He was a professional projectionist and knew all the queues and prompts that were embedded in the film to let the projectionist know when to switch reels and whatnot. He pointed them out to me and, at the time, I thought it was cool. That is until the next time I went to a movie and kept seeing those little circles pop up in the corner of the screen...it drove me nuts! Sometimes ignorance IS bliss. As for watching an old movie again after some years have passed..."Black Sunday" was a vampire flick that scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid so when I saw the VHS version in a video rental shop I picked it up. What a bust, couldn't figure out what was So scary about it. I'll watch "Almost Famous" multiple times however because that takes me to a place I was happy to be in the early 70's.
Once again, Wayne, I think you are right. The bed had those embossed sides. And the cab has a strange shape to it. I had no idea. I guess I'm too young to know of any local farmer or relative that had one that old.
In the movie it started right up and with a puff of smoke the actress pulled away in the truck. I didn't hear her shift gears though.
I spot stuff like that all the time...I;ve told my wife they need to hire me to proof their shows/movies before the release them...Some really obvious stuff is easy to find but the difference in tail lights if something only a quintessential master of ford knowledge could spot...
I spot stuff like that all the time...I;ve told my wife they need to hire me to proof their shows/movies before the release them...Some really obvious stuff is easy to find but the difference in tail lights if something only a quintessential master of ford knowledge could spot...
My nephew Bob, works for a guy that owns among many things, a bowling alley. The boss gave Bob an old fashioned table top shuffle board game. It is 22 feet long. It's the kind you might have found in a bar room. Bob listed it on eBay. Netflix contacted him about renting it. They are making a movie about Mike Tyson, called Iron Mike. And needed it for a old fashioned bar room scene.
They agreed to rent for $3000. Bob loaded it, securely, on the top of his car and drove it from Southern PA to New Orleans. Why NOLA and not NYC where Tyson lived? I don't know. So Bob drove it down and stayed for a week giving his wife and 3 kids a little vacation. Then of course he can still sell it but with the provenance that it was used in movie.
Minor stuff gets through all the time. The back to the future guitar Marty played at the dance in 1955 wasn’t made until 1959, the amp he kicked over was first produced in 57.
