If you lived around New York City or anywhere that WOR-TV 9 was available on cable as a Superstation, here's a blast from your past.
Do you recall the 4:30 movie on Channel 9 in the 1970's and 1980's before everyone became NewsChannel Obcessed? In their opening sequence before running the flick, there was a dramatic shot of a steam locomotive rolling off of a collapsing timber trestle. In a series of melting wipes broken up by vertical lines moving horizontally, the clip meshed in between cowboys, action and romance, lasted a mere five seconds at the most to your eye.
Now, if you know anything about it, see if you can settle myth from fact.
Is that an actual scene from a movie, or is it as I was told a long time ago? Someone said that gut-wrenching scene which took every Model Railroader's breath away was a specially shot scene made specifically for the 4:30 movie opener. Supposedly, it was shot by a production company and not by a movie studio, on a basement layout in a home outside of Montreal.
The trestle was made to break away, and for easy reassembly as the owner realized they may need to do more than one take if anything went wrong. He figured three takes tops. I was told that the owner, despite what he was paid, got pissed with the Producer because the Producer wanted multiple retakes, and the brass locomotive was beginning to get damaged. Anybody knows that even if a brass steamer falls into a blanket, thingys still get bent!
Do YOU know anything about it??
Dieter./
Do you recall the 4:30 movie on Channel 9 in the 1970's and 1980's before everyone became NewsChannel Obcessed? In their opening sequence before running the flick, there was a dramatic shot of a steam locomotive rolling off of a collapsing timber trestle. In a series of melting wipes broken up by vertical lines moving horizontally, the clip meshed in between cowboys, action and romance, lasted a mere five seconds at the most to your eye.
Now, if you know anything about it, see if you can settle myth from fact.
Is that an actual scene from a movie, or is it as I was told a long time ago? Someone said that gut-wrenching scene which took every Model Railroader's breath away was a specially shot scene made specifically for the 4:30 movie opener. Supposedly, it was shot by a production company and not by a movie studio, on a basement layout in a home outside of Montreal.
The trestle was made to break away, and for easy reassembly as the owner realized they may need to do more than one take if anything went wrong. He figured three takes tops. I was told that the owner, despite what he was paid, got pissed with the Producer because the Producer wanted multiple retakes, and the brass locomotive was beginning to get damaged. Anybody knows that even if a brass steamer falls into a blanket, thingys still get bent!
Do YOU know anything about it??
Dieter./