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- From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
- Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
- Subject: Re: One more faked car wreck in movies
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:55:52 GMT
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- Corbet E. Wilcox (corbetew@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
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- : Having recently seen _Back to the Future_ once again, I'm still amazed by the
- : Steam Train going into "Eastwood" ravine. THe crash looks real but the
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- I saw that movie in a theatre and I remember thinking at the time, "My god,
- they did that train wreck full-scale!" I later saw a "Making of..."
- documentary and learned that they had actually built a 1/4 scale model train
- because anything smaller looked like a model on film. That scale model
- train was specially built for the movie and I suspect cost a good deal more
- than some of the cars this group talks about.
- Oh, by the way, has it occured to anyone else that the car at the end
- of "Thelma & Louise" probably wasn't wrecked? I mean we didn't see it land...
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