FAB Facts: Film Trickery in Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- The last minute addition of an accidental shot of a crashing elevator car during the climax of Trapped in the Sky had to have a couple of other shots added to make the sequence work properly - as such, some flipped images proved an easy way to overcome one particular hurdle...
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There was an interview with one of the model makers a while ago who stated that some models were only fully finished on one side to save work that wouldn't be seen. Hence the in-advance knowledge that the shot would have to be flipped to make geographical sense.
Yes I saw that video.
This was filmed in 1964 with models! Absolutely outstanding to this day and rarely bettered! There are no two ways about it, Gerry Anderson was, and always will be a genius in the true sense of the word.🙏
Titanic did a similar thing, they only built half of a ship-exterior set, so to record scenes on the 'other side', everyone would dress up in reversed costumes (buttons buttoning the other way, nametags and insignias mirrored, signage all written backwards) so that the film could be flipped over and look the right-way around.
I think that's right ... but more impressively, long after construction had started on the massive set, someone advised Cameron that the Titanic was actually docked facing the other way, and so he had everything in the opening scene reversed when filmed from the steering wheels in the cars, signage and hairstyles so it could be flopped and look like it was departing historically accurately...
@@markclawrie007 ...and then something said to Cameron that the movie was perfect.
Except for that issue with the star constellation.
Naturally, all scenes showing stars (celestial bodies) were corrected.
Trapped in the Sky still brings a lump to my throat, a tear to my eye and makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. :/
That hair-raising attempt at saving Fireflash, is simply astonishing television. When you see it looming over the end of the runway, and Barry Gray's utterly thrilling 'teaser' (as it was used each episode) theme kicks in, you get the full goosebump effect, which lasts until Fireflash shudders to a halt. Wonderful. I've watched it countless times over the last 50+ years, and it never, ever, fails to move me. Thanks, Gerry and your wonderful team, for going above, and beyond, what was required for a childrens' TV show.
First Saw This Episode in 1966 When I was 9 yrs. old. Glad I Got It on DVD. (smile)
Although, Car 1 looks like it has genuinely gone out of control on the second run!
Great to see the guys spread new info on a classic scene! #FabFacts
I believe this is called "crossing the action axis." Broadly speaking, if you have a shot of a car moving from left to right and cut to a shot where the same car is moving right to left, for a moment the viewers will think they are looking at a second car. So, you optically flip the second shot so the car is moving consistently with the first shot, and they will "see" it as the same vehicle.
This is premier league need stuff !😂😂
Good job for International rescue that the plane the cart hit and then exploded over was empty. And I hope they didn't face a lawsuit for destroying that plane!
Jackie Chan broke his foot during an extremely difficult scene. He was taken to the hospital and had x-rays and a cast was employed from the knee down. In order to complete the shot, Mr. Chan had the effects team paint the cast to match his other leg They painted the shoe and pant leg colour to match and they continued the stunt later that same day.
This is so enjoyable - such innocent nerdy fun!! Jamie, I've just heard your interview on the Scarred for Life podcast series - loved it. You're doing your dad such a service by bringing his work to a new generation, and keeping it alive in new mediums for the old ones! THANK YOU.
F.A.B ❤ Thunderbirds 2 👑🤗🎮🥰💥💥💥
The effort that goes into it all.Amazing.
Where can I get hold of the book you are reading from
Didn't already talk about this, and come to the conclusion that the accidental crash was more likely that of the Master Elevator car?
I'd like a list of all the episodes that were extended, that way I can go through and trim them back to there orignal lengths!
If the resoning for the lettering is true, it only means that the Script Supervisor (the person who checks for detail mistakes) knew that the elevator car went from left to right. It exited the screen on the run way on the right side. So it had to come in and crash from the left side of the screen to follow the action and as not to confuse the audience.
If they only had the port (left) side of the plane painted and decided to add that later, then it is very possible that the Script Supervisor (if there was one) pointed it out to the VFX team and elaborated a plan to make the shot work.
Aeroflop airlines, titanic dock scenes were filmed flopped
So we finally know which elevator car was accidental.
I remember the video they put up debating if it was the master car falling off during attempt 2 or this one. Guess someone saw the video and finally cracked it. Crazy to me that this finally got rediscovered nearly 60 years on.
I'm pretty sure one of those models (either the plane or the control car) would have had reverse lettering on it for shots where it's going in a direction other than the way it would have been filmed (i.e. filmed one way, but flipped on screening). Explosions in space are often filmed like this, for example - often from below so the blast is omni-directional.
Not only was the number '3' turned upside down, but the roof mounted 'Remote Control Elevator' signs were removed as that would have been a dead giveaway if reversed. You can see where the black paint on the elevator car roof is missing at the side where it had previously been covered over by the sign. Someone has also attempted to scrub out quite a bit of the writing above the wing of the plane. That said, I must have watched that episode a dozen times at least and never noticed before!
isnt 'flipped' top to bottom and 'mirrored' left to right? and flopped a footballers thing for sympathy of a non existent injury.....
Flopped is the term for the left to right reversal of an image, used to differentiate from the top to bottom "Flipped".
@@WhirrClick must be a film term thing as opposed to a video editing thing, but then again maybe if your old and got into video editing from film then you would apply the film terms unlike the modern terms in the software. Even my oldest stills editing package calls it mirrored so is it mirrored in stills ? Since a 'flopped' image looks the same a looking in a mirror it does kind of make you wonder how it became more popular.
@@lezbriddon"Countered" in some countries - and different professions might actually have other words for the "mirror image'. Mirrored horizontally, aka "mirrored across a vertical axis", of course. Don't want to add any more confusion here.
Nowadays, flipped and flopped seem to be standard phases, at least in the US. But that episode was filmed like 60 years ago (and it still grabs me), in the UK (not Liverpool, I guess, or I would have learnt the Scouse word for "gekontert" today (that's the German word, BTW)).
FLOPPED FACT!
TCAF BAF!
good fab fact
Good video.
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Science!
Reminds me of the 9th Doctor episode "Aliens of London" where they flopped the footage of the spaceship slicing through Big Ben.
The numerals on the clock face are clearly reversed.
Oh I guess it was just a side effect of the TARDIS reversing time or something...