Anachronistic movie/TV shite

[seth]

Domestic Management is recovering from The Lurgy.  She is currently watching an early Tom Hanks film, set in Jerusalem in 1942.  

 

Also, didn't they drive on the left in the British Mandate of Palestine?

 

 

 

Just looked up some photos of 1930s Tel Aviv - vehicles are driving on the right.

 

[martc]

Re Battle Of Britain - related to, but not quite car is the 1960's bungalow complete with plastic door bell and up-and-over garage door. There's mention on IMBD about post war Mack lorries being used in some of the German scenes. Did some one mention 60's hairstyles?

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's OK these are only films no real time travel occurred.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or did it?

[mercrocker]

Can't remember if I dreamt it and I certainly haven't looked it up....but....I seem to recall an Inter-City 125 rattling past Jimmy's bedroom window in Quadrophenia as well.  In fairness those street scenes and the ones in Withnail and I would have been extremely difficult to engineer with no modern stuff in view.   I know George Lucas managed it pretty well in Quadrophenia but he had half of California to play with.   

 

Movie-makers often resort to incorrect or adapted vehicles when the originals are either extremely expensive or impossible to locate.

 

The "wartime" Mercedes-Benz 320s in Raiders of the Lost Ark were heavily re-worked (in Hinckley, Leics.)  Mk5 Jags....

[Tamworthbay]

big light on the back

Fair enufffffff

[mercrocker]

Re Battle Of Britain - related to, but not quite car is the 1960's bungalow complete with plastic door bell and up-and-over garage door. 

 

I remember seeing that as a kid in 1969 and spending the whole of the rest of the film wondering if it could possibly be correct.   I was 9 years old, FFS....

[davocano]

I know George Lucas managed it pretty well in Quadrophenia but he had half of California to play with.

 

Shirley you mean American Graffiti..?

[DodgeRover]

Probably already done, and not a movie.

 

Scene from Series 2 Episode 8 of Ashes to Ashes set in 1982

 

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That's Fred's bullion van, likewise when it's held up at gun point in this or another show, it's bulletproof lads, and weighing several tonnes would have easily shunted through the improvised road block.

[Guest]

They do this all the time.  Props departments simply do not do their research!  Made In Dagenham, for instance, about the upholstery department's fight for equal pay at Ford in the 60s.  You'll see cars going down the production line.... Escorts, mk2 Cortinas, mk1 Cortinas....yeah ok!

 

Watched this the other night, and there seemed to be an awful lot of Rover P6's in it, most of them series 2's..

 

[mercrocker]

Shirley you mean American Graffiti..?

 

Cut and paste strikes again!.......

[For Fiats Sake]

Period cars in films are always too bloody clean, pristine, no rust, well parked and distract me rather than convince me.  I'd rather watch movie made in its time and admire the chod.

[eddyramrod]

That's why I'd rather like to get Huggy some film or telly work.  He does look very much like a low-level Chicago pimp's car, circa 1985...

[Tayne]

Period cars in films are always too bloody clean, pristine, no rust, well parked and distract me rather than convince me.  I'd rather watch movie made in its time and admire the chod.

The Minder and Prefessionals box sets are great for this.

[timolloyd]

Yes, The Knock too. Mid 90s TV series that reminds me how much really early 80s stuff was still knocking around 10 or 15 years later.

[Parky]

In John Wayne's last film "The Shootist", there is a scene where he gets shot and goes down pretty hard.

 

If you play the scene slowly, you can see a hefty length of rope wrapped around his ankle and someone yanked it at the key moment so he went down like a sack of potatoes.

 

He wasn't a well man at the time, seemed a rather cruel thing to do. I am surprised his ankle didn't snap! But it did give me and Dad quite a bit of mirth at the time.

 

Also for F1 geeks, Rush is an amazing film. The cars, music, and clothes were pretty much spot on but unfortunately trainspotters like me can see that Paul Ricard circuit was actually Brands Hatch...

 

Saw some remake of the Iranian Hostage siege (6 Days). Yup, got the parked cars right, but they all had modern plates on. Stood out like a sore thumb.

[strangeangel]

Just finished watching 'The Clash: New Year's Day 1977', which was well down to Julien Temple's usual standards. Most of it should have ended up on the cutting room floor, save for the priceless, previously unbroadcast footage of them on stage at The Roxy... and manager Bernie Rhodes waving the Vs at the camera before driving off in a Renault 16 sporting a number plate altered to read CLA5H

 

Apparently Bernie ran a Renault garage while managing The Clash in those early days, a fact that had escaped even a punk nerd like me. I even managed to find a picture of Paul Simonon and two stunned-looking schoolboys standing next to the machine in question!

 

 

And, no, DVLA has no record of LLA5H, sadly.

[Alusilber]

More likely to be ELA5H, maybe?

[Eddie Honda]

CLA 5H

[Louise2cv]

I think I got shouty at the telly when I spotted a MK2 Transit in the Rush film.

[Vin]

Rush was a bit of a snoozefest IMHO. There was also a Ferrari team Renault Estafette. It would have been a Fiat 238.

[PhilA]

More likely to be ELA5H, maybe?

Have to agree, you can see where they snapped the middle bar of the E off.

 

Phil

[strangeangel]

Have to agree, you can see where they snapped the middle bar of the E off.

 

Phil

 

Yes, I think you chaps are right. No record of that one either, predictably. Further nerdery... LA means it was registered in the same bit of Londinium as my '59 Vespa.

[Jim Bergerac]

I'd rank Bergerac up there in the best shite-spotting boxsets. A completely unbiased opinion of course, in spite of my profile picture.

[chaseracer]

I'd rank Bergerac up there in the best shite-spotting boxsets.

 

NOOOOOOOOO......!!

 

 

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=81831

[tul66]

^^That's improved the looks somewhat!

[Disco Fever]

The 1974 version of Gone in 60 Seconds is on Movies4Men (freeview ch 48) right now. It’s non stop chod and there’s just been a brown Rolls with the longest row of giffer badges in front of the grill you ever saw.

[tooSavvy]

Saw a film the other night 'the 14', about orphaned kids.

 

Magic scene where one of them went somewhere [London centric] and is seen through the windscreen - like joyriding - but actually a Citroen GS, on a transporter.

 

Ford truck pulling and loaded with Ami and GS...

 

Good film BTW