Remember the Rolls Royce armoured car in that British cinematographic
masterpiece "Lawrence of Arabia"? It is in fact a very clever mock up, it
now languishes in a barn about 5 miles from my house, owned by a Rolls Royce
collector. Close by owned by someone else is an aluminium Scorpion.
NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <timberwolf@lynx.bc.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M43 in Goldfinger
> >At 03:44 PM 10/13/00 -0500, puttnut wrote:
> >>I was watching American Movie Classics one time, and to fill in a couple
> >>minutes they had a little clip on where movie studios get some of their
> >>military vehicles. This guy was walking down a row of WW2 jeeps on one
side
> >>of him, and a row of HMMWV and M37 etc. on the other side. CCKW and
others
> >>in background. Not sure if this was a studio owner or private owner
they
> >>visited, but at least 50 military vehicles in the view. All looked
restored
> >>in good shape. They did not have the program listed in the TV guide.
> >>
> >>Scott
> >
> I work for a movie company in Vancouver. We're doing a number of
> series in town, 'Dark Angel' and 'Freedom' among them, and the vehicles
> used by these and other films/series in town come from a variety of
> sources.
> >
> If you take 'Dark Angel' as an example, they've got a number of Hummers
> from AM General (through GM, I believe) as 'product placement' units
> to be used gratis throughout the production in the hopes that seeing the
> things on TV will somehow spur the North American buying public
> into purchasing them. In addition to the product placement ones (painted
> black, but with all the civvy doo-dads instead of the military ones), the
> company I work for has supplied an M998 painted flat black with
> a surplus issue 4-man soft-top painted with black vinyl paint which
> they likewise rented for the length of the production, in addition to
> the standard U.S. Army/USMC camouflaged variety on a daily
> basis when the scripts call for them.
>
> Aside from the product placement vehicles and those picture vehicles
> rented from local establishments, the production company will frequently
> purchase vehicles outright for the duration of the production ("Dark
> Angel" owns a Unimog 404) and/or create and heavily modify
> purchased vehicles for certain episodes or scenes. Some of these
> vehicles wind up in private hands courtesy of the production-end
> wrap sales, where others are destroyed as part of the agreement
> with the manufacturer of the automobile (i.e. the Dodge Vipers
> used in "Viper"), or are destroyed due to being so heavily modified
> as to be unfit for the road, or properties the production company
> would be loathe to see in other outfits' productions down the road (i.e.,
> the 'weirdies' built as hero cars for last year's FOX series
> "Harsh Realm".)
>
> In Vancouver there are three-four companies which supply military
> vehicles to local productions, as well as a number of picture vehicle
> outfits that merely act as a sort of broker for a list of clients with
> specialty vehicles in the event a director is after a certain 'look',
and/or
> the film in question is a period piece requiring vehicles of a certain
> vintage.
>
> The M43 from 'Goldfinger' may well be languishing on some backlot
> somewhere, but my bet is that it's fate was probably more along
> lines of those Harsh Realm 'weirdies' I spoke of. Taking off
> my HMV collector's cap for the moment - it's just not cost
> effective to keep stuff up that doesn't rent. However, having
> said that - evidently the faux-military vehicle from the
> Jan-Michael Vincent flick "Damnation Alley" still shows up
> in vacant lots from time-to-time in California, so you
> never know.
>
> Andy Hill
> MVPA 9211
> Vancouver, B.C.
> (company owns probably some 60-plus
> vehicles ranging everywhere from
> CMP's to GPW's, M-series galore,
> Mungas, a German M.A.N., bunch
> of Land Rover 109's, Defender 110's
> etc. - bunch of M35'S, bunch of
> CUCV's, six HUMV's...yada yada..)
>
>
>
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