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| Dr. Strangelove and the B17
Heres some interesting trivia for you. A B17 was used in the filming of the movie and was named (appropriatley) as "Doctor Strangelove"
In several shots of the B-52 flying over the polar ice en route to Russia, the shadow of the actual camera plane, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, is visible on the snow below. The B-52 was a model composited into the arctic footage which was sped up to create a (quite unconvincing) sense of jet speed. The camera ship, a former USAAF B-17G-100-VE, serial 44-85643, registered F-BEEA, had been one of four Flying Forts purchased from salvage at Altus, Oklahoma in December 1947 by the French Institut Geographique National and converted for survey and photo-mapping duty. It was the last active B-17 of a total of fourteen once operated by the IGN, but it was destroyed in a take-off accident at RAF Binbrook in 1989 during filming of the movie "Memphis Belle." Home movie footage included in "Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove" on the 2001 Special Edition DVD release of the film show clips of the Fortress with a cursive "Dr. Strangelove" painted over the rear entry hatch on the right side of the fuselage.
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Originally Posted by Pisis Hehe, the "a.jpg" doesn't look very natural... | Kubrick at least made an attempt to make it look convincing. For early 60's standards, he gets an A for it. By todays standards, its still a C/C+.
He also was a stickler for detail. Next time you see the movie, when the camera angle is facing from the rear of the flight deck, you can see terrain "movement" outside the pilots cockpit windows.
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| So do you know Airplane the movie? Directed by Zucker bros - there us one scene of two guys riding a cabrio with "back projection". Behind them the road is quickly slipping from side to side, then they're chased by indians and some other ****... they just made fun of this 60's technics... | |
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Country: | The special effects may have not been the best in the world but I like the movie anyway. Even the special effects for the Lord of the Ring series looks fake. You can tell the characters are standing in front of a screen in quite a few of the scenes.
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Country: | Nah the best line/lines is the scene about the precious bodily fluids, but Slim Pickins is great in that movie, and Sellers' multipart role in the flick is nothing short of pure comedic genius...
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Originally Posted by MichaelHenley What is Dr. Strangelove all about anyway? | A SAC commander goes nuts and starts WW3 - 1960s era..........
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