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Pick a movie, then state a little known fact about it.

ALIEN.
the titular creature had a particular fascination with spinning green lights. In a scene in the original script and in the novel, the alien was utterly fascinated with a spinning green "police car" style light in an airlock.

It was so hypnotized by the green light it didn't notice a nearby human, the engineer Parker. Parker calls Ripley and tells her to open the airlock.  Ripley does and the alien slowly begins to enter the lock. It was almost blown into space when some koffashkoff triggers an alarm and breaks it's compulsion towards the green light.

Tor Johnson had to carry Bela Lugosi around the set of the BLACK SLEEP (1956) because he was drunk half the time.

But on the other hand, Bela Lugosi directed most of WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) because Victor Halprin was drunk most of the time!

During the filming of Predator Sonny Landham had to be escorted around with some bodyguards, not to protect him but to protect the other actors due to his highly aggressive nature.

He also lost both legs in a car wreck and is homeless now.  :bluesad:

According to this he's passed away: https://variety.com/2017/film/news/sonny-landham-dies-dead-predator-1202533278/

 :bluesad:

Originally George Lucas was going to make a Flash Gordon movie based on the 1930s serials, but couldn't get the rights. He actually had a meeting with King Features Syndicate which owns the rights to the comic strips and it's adaptations. But they wanted the fresh-faced director to give them 80% of the profits and to change the director. So, he decided to make his own serial style space adventure.

Roger Corman encouraged Francis Ford Coppola to make THE GODFATHER as a blaxploitation movie.

According to the novelization of the movie, Gizmo HATED being called that. 

Also the Mogwai were created by an alien scientist. 

The "Slow motion" sound effect in Dredd was actually a Justin Bieber song slowed down several hundred times. 

The T-Rex hiss in the original King Kong was Fay Wray's scream played backwards.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvD3X3RcK3Y#)

The original alien was meant to be translucent but the effects of the day could not deal with it.

https://nerdist.com/look-through-a-quarter-scale-translucent-prototype-suit-alien-xenomorph/

I wonder if replacement animation would've worked...

.In the BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE, the end was to have Janet's head eaten by rats, and was actually filmed- in color! But for some reason or another, it was scrapped.
. Peter Lorre was to star in the SHE CREATURE (1957), but once he read the script, he stepped off.
. Tod Browning actually wanted to film DRACULA  in 1925, but couldn't secure the rights to the film.
. Bela Lugosi was buddies with western star Buck Jones. At one time Lugosi even considering buying a dude ranch!

In "the blob" they planned to show the doctor pull down the blind and be shown completely enVeloped by the titular creature but the scene was deemed too horrific for 1958 audiences.

http://www.monsterbashnews.com/Movie%20Night/The%20Blob%201958.html (http://www.monsterbashnews.com/Movie%20Night/The%20Blob%201958.html)

This was the first Western made in Africa:

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.FRANKENSTEIN (1931) was released in some theaters with a green tint- because "Green was the color of fear!".
. Much like the prolouge in FRANKENSTEIN (1931), DRACULA  (1931) originally had an epilouge, with Edward Van Sloan warning the audiance to beware of vampires because "there are such things!".
. 2 pilots were killed when 2 bi-planes collided in the little known Lugosi film SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS (1931).

I seen a Western, with Vincent Price, that was filmed in South Africa, if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: the JACKALS (1967) was not exactly a western. It looks like a western, it feels like a western, but the story actually takes place in South Africa!

Edward G. Robinson did a filmed screen test as Dr. Zauis in an early ape make-up for PLANET OF THE APES (1968). I seen it.
I'm so glad they didn't go with that make-up.


http://youtu.be/SybFv7CO8-E (http://youtu.be/SybFv7CO8-E)

EDIT: Well I f**ked that up! I was trying to post this photo of Eddie as Zauis-but of course I f**ked it up.  :lookingup:

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MAURICE EVANS, who played Samantha's estranged father on the TV show Bewitched, played Dr. Zaius. 

EDWARD G. ROBINSON would have also made a terrific Dr. Zaius.  Great pic.

Lon Chaney Jr. did an anti smoking commercial (I remember seeing it) before he died of cancer. Just like his father. He died in 1973. He has no grave. He donated his body to science.

 

i was about to say the same thing.

For a guy who played frankenstein that was a gutsy move...

Yes, indeed.  :smile:

Photographed by David Millin ASC, a friend and mentor to me.

(http://www.theartofmovieposters.com/pages/gallery/PRICE/1967_THEJACKALS_AUS_OS.JPG)

I think we have a 35mm print of it here * Cans hit Trevor on head*  :buggedout: There you go.  :wink:

John Wayne and Yul Brynner made similar anti-smoking ads before they died, to be aired AFTER.

Dunno how "little known" this is but I always thought it was interesting.

James Bond creator Ian Fleming was related to Christopher Lee by marriage --  they frequently played golf together.

Fleming thought Lee would be the perfect actor to play Dr. No in the first 007 film, but the absent-minded author kept forgetting to bring it up to the film's producers till they'd already cast the role.

Of course, Lee eventually got to play a Bond villain in The Man With the Golden Gun.

And he got to. Play an Asian. Villain in the fu mancho movies.

Damn, I miss those days when someone with a little bit of prostetics could play any other race without the entire world deciding "OH NOES!!! THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER, WE MUST PROTEST BECAUSE OUR LIVES ARE VACOUS AND EMPTY, LET US PRETEND WE AREN'T INCREDIBLY VAPID BY MAKING THIS AN ISSUE!".

As if the world doesn't have enough real issues and problems they could be helping deal with.

In real Life Lee was quite a James Bond guy himself!
When the Second World War broke out, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War in 1939.[36] He and other British volunteers were kept away from actual fighting, but they were issued winter gear and were posted on guard duty a safe distance from the front lines. After a fortnight, they returned home.[37] Lee returned to work at United States Lines and found his work more satisfying, feeling that he was contributing. In early 1940, he joined Beecham's, at first as an office clerk, then as a switchboard operator.[38] When Beecham's moved out of London, he joined the Home Guard.[39] In the winter, his father fell ill with bilateral pneumonia and died on 12 March 1941. Realising that he had no inclination to follow his father into the Army, Lee decided to join up while he still had some choice of service, and volunteered for the Royal Air Force.[40]

Lee reported to RAF Uxbridge for training and was then posted to the Initial Training Wing at Paignton.[41] After he had passed his exams in Liverpool, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan meant that he travelled on the Reina del Pacifico to South Africa, then to his posting at Hillside, at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia.[42] Training with de Havilland Tiger Moths, Lee was having his penultimate training session before his first solo flight, when he suffered from headaches and blurred vision. The medical officer hesitantly diagnosed a failure of his optic nerve, and he was told he would never be allowed to fly again.[43] Lee was devastated, and the death of a fellow trainee from Summer Fields only made him more despondent. His appeals were fruitless, and he was left with nothing to do.[44] He was moved around to different flying stations before being posted to Southern Rhodesia's capital, Salisbury, in December 1941.[45] He then visited the Mazowe Dam, Marandellas, the Wankie Game Reserve and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Thinking he should "do something constructive for my keep", he applied to join RAF Intelligence. His superiors praised his initiative, and he was seconded into the Rhodesian Police Force and was posted as a warder at Salisbury Prison.[46] He was then promoted to leading aircraftman and moved to Durban in South Africa, before travelling to Suez on the Nieuw Amsterdam.[47]

After "killing time" at RAF Kasfareet near the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal Zone, he resumed intelligence work in the city of Ismaïlia.[48] He was then attached to No. 205 Group RAF before being commissioned as a pilot officer at the end of January 1943,[49] and attached to No. 260 Squadron RAF as an intelligence officer.[50] As the North African Campaign progressed, the squadron "leapfrogged" between Egyptian airstrips, from RAF El Daba to Maaten Bagush and on to Mersa Matruh. They lent air support to the ground forces and bombed strategic targets. Lee, "broadly speaking, was expected to know everything".[51] The Allied advance continued into Libya, through Tobruk and Benghazi to the Marble Arch and then through El Agheila, Khoms and Tripoli, with the squadron averaging five missions a day.[52] As the advance continued into Tunisia, with the Axis forces digging themselves in at the Mareth Line, Lee was almost killed when the squadron's airfield was bombed.[53] After breaking through the Mareth Line, the squadron made their final base in Kairouan.[54] After the Axis surrender in North Africa in May 1943, the squadron moved to Zuwarah in Libya in preparation for the Allied invasion of Sicily.[55] They then moved to Malta, and, after its capture by the British Eighth Army, the Sicilian town of Pachino, before making a permanent base in Agnone Bagni.[56] At the end of July 1943, Lee received his second promotion of the year, this time to flying officer.[57] After the Sicilian campaign was over, Lee came down with malaria for the sixth time in under a year, and was flown to a hospital in Carthage for treatment. When he returned, the squadron was restless, frustrated with a lack of news about the Eastern Front and the Soviet Union in general, and with no mail from home or alcohol. Unrest spread and threatened to turn into mutiny. Lee, by now an expert on Russia, talked them into resuming their duties, which much impressed his commanding officer.[58]


Flying Officer C. F. C. Lee in Vatican City, 1944, soon after the Liberation of Rome
After the Allied invasion of Italy, the squadron was based in Foggia and Termoli during the winter of 1943. Lee was then seconded to the Army during an officer's swap scheme.[59] He spent most of this time with the Gurkhas of the 8th Indian Infantry Division during the Battle of Monte Cassino.[60] While spending some time on leave in Naples, Lee climbed Mount Vesuvius, which erupted three days later.[61] During the final assault on Monte Cassino, the squadron was based in San Angelo, and Lee was nearly killed when one of the planes crashed on takeoff, and he tripped over one of its live bombs.[62] After the battle, the squadron moved to airfields just outside Rome, and Lee visited the city, where he met his mother's cousin, Nicolò Carandini, who had fought in the Italian resistance movement.[63] In November 1944, Lee was promoted to flight lieutenant and left the squadron in Iesi to take up a posting at Air Force HQ.[64] Lee took part in forward planning and liaison, in preparation for a potential assault into the rumoured German Alpine Fortress. After the war ended, Lee was invited to go hunting near Vienna and was then billeted in Pörtschach am Wörthersee. For the final few months of his service, Lee, who spoke fluent French and German, among other languages, was seconded to the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects.Here, he was tasked with helping to track down Nazi war criminals.[68] Of his time with the organisation, Lee said: "We were given dossiers of what they'd done and told to find them, interrogate them as much as we could and hand them over to the appropriate authority ... We saw these concentration camps. Some had been cleaned up. Some had not." He retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant.

Lee's stepfather served as a captain in the Intelligence Corps, but it is unlikely he had any influence over Lee's military career. Lee saw him for the last time on a bus in London in 1940, by then divorced from Lee's mother, though Lee did not speak to him.[69] Lee mentioned that during the war he was attached to the Special Operations Executive and the Long Range Desert Group, the precursor of the SAS, but always declined to go into details.

I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like.

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/a-forgotten-disney-short-back-to-neverland/ (http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/a-forgotten-disney-short-back-to-neverland/)

Why did Disney pick Robin Williams to play the Genie in Aladdin?

Simple; they'd already used him successfully in a theme-park attraction.



Watch the short here:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBc1T9eDWg#)

Filmack, the company which made "Let's all go to the Lobby" is still in business, but just barely. Digital films don't wear out, so no one needs to buy new prints. Besides that, there's a lot of new competition. The owner moved the business from a store front to his basement, & cut back on staff. His kids aren't interested in the studio, so it'll probably close when he retires. Which is really too bad; they've been in business since 1919.

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0125-filmack-snipes-20130125-story.html (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-0125-filmack-snipes-20130125-story.html)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjB5gjTEEj8#)

Robin Williams was into the tabletop miniature war game. ''Warhammer 40,000'' and collected Eldar and Imperial miniatjes which he painted.

http://www.ordofanaticus.com/topic/210319-from-the-personal-collection-of-robin-williams/ (http://www.ordofanaticus.com/topic/210319-from-the-personal-collection-of-robin-williams/)

Please don't call them toys,  BTW. 

If you play with them, then they are toys.

Lon Chaney Jr. was set to play both the Wolfman and the Frankenstein Monster in FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943), but the logistics were a pain in the ass, so they got Bela Lugosi , who had dialouge in the film- which was cut. Also the Monster was actually blind until the final fight in the film-and why Lon leads him around all the time like a puppy most of the time. But of course all scenes stating that the Monster was blind (as he was in the finale of GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN) were removed.

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Bruno Mattei's RATS: Night of Terror was filmed on the lavish 1920's-era New York City street sets that were built for Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon A Time In America.

Mike Jittlov, director of The Wizard of Speed & Time had other plans. That's obvious, but someone on Usenet tracfked down a bit more info. I'll just copy & paste it here:



Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/# (https://groups.google.com/forum/#)!topic/alt.fan.mike-jittlov/n9zrnMXktr8

Lon Chaney Jr. played the Wolf Man in  
.the WOLF MAN (1941)
.FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943)
.HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944)
.HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945)
.ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
.ROUTE 66 (1961)
.LA CASA DEL TERROR (1959) which was mutlilated  by Jerry Warren as FACE OF THE SCREAMING WEREWOLF (1964).

And! He Played the Frankenstein Monster in GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (!942)
.The GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1943),
.ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)-Glenn Strange twisted his leg, Lon doubled for him.
.The COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (1951)
.TALES OF TOMORROW (1962)

Alfred Hitchcock, of course, invented the term MacGuffin to describe an otherwise unimportant object or incident that moved along the plot in some key way, but he told variations of a funny story about how easy it was to make almost anything or even nothing into a MacGuffin....

He said to imagine two men are on a train heading into Scotland and one sees the other has a bulky package on the seat next to him, so he asks what it is.

"It's my MacGuffin," the man explains.

"What's that?"

The second man tells him, "It's a large gun I'm bringing up north so I can hunt elephants in the Highlands."

"But there are no elephants in the Scottish Highlands," insists the first man.

"Oh," answers the second man, "then I suppose it's not a MacGuffin after all."

The first African zombie film was released three years before Night of The Living Dead. :teddyr:

What was it? I'm intrigued! :buggedout:

Ingrid Pitt's first movie starred Soledad Miranda- the SOUND OF HORROR (1964), about an invisible dinosaur!

http://youtu.be/uDOS4iV9kd4 (http://youtu.be/uDOS4iV9kd4)

Ingrid Pitt was in a concentration camp as a child.

Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a German father of Russian descent and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her family were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig.


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The gag in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the characters bang coconut shells together to mimic the sounds of horses' hooves was created out of economic necessity - the production didn't have enough money to rent real horses. 

The preview poster for star trek the motion picture featured a version of the enterprise not seen in the movie.  The version seen here was an upgraded enterprise meant to be used in a new star trek series to be called star trek 2.0

(http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/reports/40_years/phaseii-enterprise.jpg)

The popularity of star wars caused the effort to produce a new star trek series to be shifted to a motion picture, and a newer version of the enterprise.

Ride The High Wind aka African Gold (1965)

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The zombie only pops up at the end and it's carrying a machine gun  :wink:

Well, dam! I just gotta check it out now.

I wrote a review here: it's on the submitted reviews board.  :smile:

Bela Lugosi was a soldier in WWI
He served as an infantryman in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914–16, rising to the rank of captain in the ski patrol. He was awarded the Wound Medal for wounds he suffered while serving on the Russian front.
He was shot 3 times!

The theme to jaws was inspired by the music from the star trek episode "the doomsday machine". TDM used a deep, ominous 4 note repeated tone. Jaws used a 4 deep tone note with slightly different timing and spacing. Many people do believe the laws theme was inspired by the doomsday machine music, even if the writer can't say so for fear of a lawsuit.

James Coburn and Steve McQueen were pallbearers at Bruce Lee's funeral.

Wow. Never heard that one.

Olivia de Havilland secretly supported Errol Flynn during the last years of his life. Flynn believed he was living off a studio pension fund into which he'd previously paid.

The publicity for Cry of the Banshee announced that it was Vincent Price's 100th movie. 

It was actually his 76th movie. 

His next movie The Abominable Dr. Phibes was also announced as being his 100th movie. 

While 2001 a space Odyssey was in theaters and A. C.  Clarke was touring Hollywood, a fan shook his hand,  slipped an envelope into it and told him he really understood the stargate sequence.  The envelope contained a astic bag with a brownish substance in it and a note assuring clarke it was 'high quality stuff'.

Fred Lincoln- who was the tall skinny psycho with the switch blade in LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) became a porno actor and director.

Flynn was partying till he puked. He was f**king an underage girl in Cuba.

Remember when Flynn was. Accused of being a spy?

The movie zardoz impressed someone at. DC comics enough to create a super character based on the movie called. 'Vartox', a cross between zardoz and vortex.  The character was based on Sean Connery's appearance in the movie.    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartox

(http://www.flashbackuniverse.com/blogImages/PreCrisisSMVillains/Vartox281.jpg)

Price and his 100th movie brings up a great bit from the time on Hollywood Squares, when both he and Paul Lynde were on the same show.

Host (Peter Marshall): How many films has Vincent Price made?
Lynde: Well, he made 2 or 3 last week.
Price: That was more than you made all year.
Lynde: Well, some of us are choosy.
Me: ROTFL!

Whether it was true or not, the answer was suppose to be 100, which Lynde gave as his answer, with the contestant disagreeing and thus be declared wrong.

http://youtu.be/X7FPxJj73us (http://youtu.be/X7FPxJj73us)

Amazingly enough Vincent price  could be on a game show and be more entertaining and classy than most modern stars are in their movies.

Movie critic and host Joe Bob Briggs was in CASINO (1999). He played an employee of DeNiro's who kept f**king up. He calls him a 'mo-mo!'  :bouncegiggle:

Parts of the Asylum''s "Transformers" knock off "Transmorphers" were shot on sets left over from the TV series "Firefly."

Tor Johnson threatened to throw Bela Lugosi out a window in 1956 while on tour for the BLACK SLEEP (1956) .Bela was standing on the window sill yelling "I can fly!" because he was hammered drunk and Tor almost made him do just that. He grabbed Bela and told him was  gonna throw him out the window. Bela mellowed out.

Vincent Price was born in St.Louis, MO.

MERLE OBERON was of mixed race, not born in Tasmania as she claimed, but was born of a very young girl in India (and raised by her grandmother). 

There was,  contrary to popular opinion, an actual sequel to forbidden planet.  It was called "the invisible boy".

There is a reason this movie is little known...

It was NOT a sequel. It just featured the same robot.
Robby was also on an episode of the TWILIGHT ZONE, LOST IN SPACE-and more s**t!

The opening narration of "Escape From New York" was voiced by an uncredited Jamie Lee Curtis.

Peter Lorre was asked to star in the SHE CREATURE (1956) but after reading the script, said no.

I've seen this film but don't remember it well.  I think a connection may have been implied...   

THERE WAS A photo of the C-57-D on earth in the future having returned from Altair 4 with robby. 

In movies shown on TV it was usually required to censor the term "god damn" as it is common for religious people to get all butthurt over "taking the lord's name in vain".  It's known that planet of the apes got around this by claiming Taylor was not taking god's name in vain but actually wanting god to damn the people who had destroyed his world to hell.

A little know fact about blazing saddles was that slim pickens shouted "god DAMN!" as he furiously  fanned the air around the campfire with his hat but the movie got away with it because most people are too busy laughing to notice the "offensive" term.

https://youtu.be/VPIP9KXdmO0

Harrison Ford improvised shooting the expert swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark (instead of the planned fight sequence) because he was feeling ill that day with digestive issues.

Dark city was filmed a year before the matrix no matter how many people think dark city was a ripoff ofthe matrix. A rooftop set from DC was used in TM.

That may be so. But it's not a sequel. Unless the Robot went back in time to the 1950's, the era the INVISIBLE BOY is set.

"

 that's exactly what happened! The main character's grandfather went into the future in a time machine he made (off camera) and was there when the C-57-D landed, he took a picture of it landing and took robby back to his own time in the late 50's.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/kim-newman-on-the-invisible-boy/

In all fairness to you RC, few people know this movie now, (Suckfest with an unbearable kenny) fewer know it was actually linked to forbidden planet and of those even fewer wish to acknowledge the fact.

British movie star David Niven was the inspiration for the DC comics villain "sinestro",  green lantern's main enemy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinestro

I'm not gonna say your wrong. I will look into it. In fact, your likely right. I ain't seen that movie in over 35 years
Thanks.!  :thumbup:

Before its unlikely relocation out to then semi-rural Hollywood, northern New Jersey seemed set in the early 1900s to become the motion picture-making capital of the United States.

While known mostly for the lightbulb and the phonograph,  Thomas Edison was an early film pioneer.

He also made the first FRANKENSTEIN (1910) movie!

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Is that really a little known fact? It might not be the 1st thing which comes to mind, but any biography of Edison will mention it, as will any motion picture history book.

It was even on an episode of Arthur:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WdtPKuj4M#)

More obscure: Magic Lantern Shows. History books always cover Eadweard Muybridge, the Zoetrope,  Edison, and the Lumière brothers, but they usually forget about magic lantern shows, early projection shows using slides. These weren't just simple static images either. There were devices made to dissolve between two or more slides. There were slides with parts which slid or spun to provide a sense of motion. Later magic lantern showmen even developed motion picture cameras using spinning glass disks! (After Edison & the Lumière brothers; they still invented movies, just the magic lantern showmen created an equivalent to try to stay relevant.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern#Moving_images (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern#Moving_images)

(Actually, according to Wikipedia, slide or disk-based motion pictures predated filmed motion pictures. They couldn't show more than a second of motion, but they were around in the mid-19th century. So even I get things wrong.)

Angelo Rossitto-who was the little guy on top of the shoulders of the giant guy in MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985)
starred in films with Lon Chaney Sr, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr.-plus he was a star in FREAKS (1932).
His first film was in 1927. His last was in 1987.
He was in 95 movies and TV shows. He died when he was 83 in 1991.

in SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN (1929)


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My two times great grandfather was an inventer who apparently regarded Edison as "a God-damned thief."

He had a point. Edison stole from tesla.

Apparently Edison had spies all over, snooping on his competitors. Blah, the only thing lower than a spy is whoever employs the spy.

TBH I despise Edison. In his futile spite war with tesla edison did something particularly heinous. Her bought an old elephant from a circus and murdered it on camera with AC current to make people believe tesla's AC system was too dangerous, despite the fact Edison's DC system would not work for large scale electrification of large areas. I saw the film and never forgave that cold blooded SOB for it.

Godzilla has Japanese citizenship.

At one point Ivan Reitman was set to direct a Batman movie (in 1985) with Bill Murray as Batman, Eddie Murphy as Robin, David Niven as Alfred, William Holden as Commissioner Gordon and David Bowie as the Joker.

If I remember correctly the elephant did kill two people, tho one of those people tried to feed her a cigarette. And I thought she was from a Coney Island amusement park, not a circus.

Yeah, Luna Park on Cony Island, & she'd killed 3 people, not two. They planned to hang her, then decided electrocution might be more humane: https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ (https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/)

Someone seriously wanted to do a superman movie with nicholas cage as superman. Seriously.

Don't forget that he was supposed to fight a giant spider in it.

(https://i.imgur.com/VTf6W7I.jpg)

Nicholas Cage may still get to play Superman, as--apparently--Henry Cavill will no longer be playing the role. Thus, Marvel Fans have been saying come over to our side, as we want you to play Marvel's The Sentinel in a film.

Kevin Smith did a brilliant bit about his brief but bizarre experience working on that film during one his spoken-word tours. It's long (about 20 minutes) but totally worth the watch:

Part 1:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2KB1dEDdk#)

Part 2:
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53hMYw8LX60#)

From The Alamo (2004) IMDB trivia page:


 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I'm surprised the studio didn;t sue the people involved...

The FBI condemned "It's a wonderful life" fir portraying bankers badly, which they described as communist.

Most Cinerama features were shot in 26 frames per second.

The golden gun prop in the James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1972) was one of a few. They could be dismantled into constituent parts produced by the lighter company Colibri. All but one Golden Gun has disappeared in the intervening years, and the last Golden Gun was on tour in the traveling James Bond exhibition produced by the Barbizon.

Stephen Colbert and his young sons were  in "The Hobbit".

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/44641578_1739334152860512_7467298808762728448_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=27f1bb2a6e60fb28aa40a27a16f5df26&oe=5C818955)

The original monolith for the movie 2001 was a solid block of clear acrylic that weighed 2 metric tons.  It was the largest single acrylic plastic cast at the time.

Kubrick rejected it as it was almost impossible to film.

It ended up here...


https://londonist.com/london/secret/see-the-original-monolith-from-2001-a-space-odyssey