Memphis Belle props

[Red rose]

There are some film studios on site where I'm working at the moment. They just had a clear out and auctioned off some old stuff. Not much of interest, except some models that were used in the making of Memphis Belle:

[Turtle head]

Wow is this stuff for sale?

[The Boy Lard]

That's pretty amazing, I hope they went to a collector.

[jmorgan]

Imagine phoning the missis up. "Hello dear, I know you said you liked the film the Memphis Belle, well......."

[Red rose]

It was a sealed bid auction. There were 2 x big models (maybe 3 meters long) and 6 or 7 smaller models ( maybe 50cm long). The big ones had actuators to move gun turrets etc.

Was extremely tempted to put in a bid, but common sense, undoubted divorce & lack of storage space prevailed!

Only other interesting lots were a WW2 jeep (without engine), some cars from the lethal weapon series & a futuristic police car from a Sylvester stallone film

[Simpo Two]

Surprised to see that two have perspex disks instead of propellers. Wouldn't have thought that would look convincing on film (but it obviously did).

[Tango13]

Simpo Two said:

Surprised to see that two have perspex disks instead of propellers. Wouldn't have thought that would look convincing on film (but it obviously did).

Another trick they used was to stick highly polished silver foil on parts of the rudder to simulate battle damage. The foil showed up blue due to it reflecting the sky which made it look like it had been shot through.

[dr_gn]

Simpo Two said:

Surprised to see that two have perspex disks instead of propellers. Wouldn't have thought that would look convincing on film (but it obviously did).

Those models seem to be among the smallest, and pretty roughly detailed. Perhaps they were for distant / background shots and maybe even defocussed?

[Eric Mc]

Objects in movies are often only seen on screen for seconds - or even fractions of a second. So all sorts of short cuts are used. It's only when people start freeze framing shots or watching scenes over and over that some of the shortcomings in some props and scenery become obvious.

[dr_gn]

IIRC most of the special effects were pretty dire in that film.

[Tango13]

Eric Mc said:

Objects in movies are often only seen on screen for seconds - or even fractions of a second. So all sorts of short cuts are used. It's only when people start freeze framing shots or watching scenes over and over that some of the shortcomings in some props and scenery become obvious.

[HoHoHo]

Tango13 said:

Eric Mc said:

Objects in movies are often only seen on screen for seconds - or even fractions of a second. So all sorts of short cuts are used. It's only when people start freeze framing shots or watching scenes over and over that some of the shortcomings in some props and scenery become obvious.

Autopilot?

[Tango13]

HoHoHo said:

Tango13 said:

Eric Mc said:

Objects in movies are often only seen on screen for seconds - or even fractions of a second. So all sorts of short cuts are used. It's only when people start freeze framing shots or watching scenes over and over that some of the shortcomings in some props and scenery become obvious.

Autopilot?

The lettering on the F-14

[HoHoHo]

Tango13 said:

HoHoHo said:

Tango13 said:

Eric Mc said:

Objects in movies are often only seen on screen for seconds - or even fractions of a second. So all sorts of short cuts are used. It's only when people start freeze framing shots or watching scenes over and over that some of the shortcomings in some props and scenery become obvious.

Autopilot?

The lettering on the F-14

Oh, I thought......

oh.....where's that bloody whoosh parrot when you need it

[Simpo Two]

Or 2'42" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmBJONo5_E

[ukzz4iroc]

Do you know how much they sold for? Also thought it was interesting to see the solid prop, must have been formation type models.