Super 8 stories...

[Hanthx]

Thanks Alex

Your a good man.

Scott

[Hanthx]

I had two beers yesterday...
man oh man.

Scott

[Alex]

Well, now that you are vulnerable....

...the next time you are in a bar or restaurant and pick-up a bottle of beer... just look inside that bottle before you swig it and look at those hops & malts and say...

"This beer costs as much as developing a roll of super-8 film".....

-Alex

[Alex]

Perhaps more stories?

-Alex

[AlexGfromUK]

Scott,

Is that a baseball team you tried out for?? I would've thought you would've told me about that when we hung out, you modest guy!
thats a super cool story...

[MovieStuff]

Okay, I'll pitch.

When we were shooting Jet Benny, we wanted to use the Battleship Texas for some interiors of the spaceship. I contacted the guy that ran the place, "Captain Dan" or something like that. He was probably nothing more than a seanman third class that swabbed the deck when he served on the Texas, but now HE was running the show and wanted to be called "Captain".

Anyway.

Captain Dan said,"Sure. Come on down about 6:00 AM and you can have the run of the boat until we open at 10:00 AM." I asked where he wanted us to meet our chaperone, which I was just sure would be required. He replied,"Son, this ship has been in two world wars. What are you gonna' do, break it?"

Well, we did.

Deep within the bowels of the ship, several decks down with nothing but NASTY black water below us that had seeped in over the years, we plugged in just...one...too...many...lights. MAN, I canNOT imagine what sailors do when they are hit and lose power. We are talking about pure and absolute blackness. I yelled out,"Don't anyone move!" A faint group of voices filtered timidly through the darkness,"No problem." Anyway, it took no time for the engineer to return power and we resumed our shoot.

HOWEVER, things were getting weird on the deck above. It seems that Captain Dan had assumed that we were shooting a war picture. After all, this was a battleship, right? He had called some of his old ship mates and they were assemble in full battle gear on the main deck, ready to take orders from yours truly so that they could be in the movie.

Sooooo. We loaded up our camera and shot some scenes of them pretending to fire anti-aircraft guns and looking through binoculars and pointing at the sky solemnly. I had these separate rolls processed and sent them to Captain Dan, telling him they were out takes from the movie.

Of course, he still didn't understand why the star of a war movie would be dressed in a leather vest with flowing cape and stylish matching leather boots. But the guy DID look like Jack Benny, so Captain Dan was fairly certain it was a World War II picture, something he would point out to his buddies with great cinematic authority, several times while we were there.

We packed up and left. Getting back to Houston, we realized we had forgotted a shot and dashed back down to the Texas where we stole some moments down in the engine room, much to the confusion of a Cub Scout troup doing a guided tour.

Roger

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[Hanthx]

Alex Gregg

Yep that was a minor league team.
When I transfered schools, I had to decide whether or not to pursue a career in baseball or filmmaking.
Filmmaking it is.
I sometimes miss baseball, but know in the long run, filmmaking will be more rewarding.

Ya, you could say Im modest.

Scott

[Alex]

Scott-

As long as some else says you're modest!...

Otherwise, personally saying "I'm a modest person" is an oxymoron.

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I once filmed from the ledge of the roof of the Taft building in Hollywood, 13 stories up.

I had a tremendous fear of heights, but by the third day I was leaning over the flimsy ledge of the Taft building shooting time-lapse stuff for this guys "project".

One of his buddies who knew nothing about Super-8 would come around to pick up all of our extraneous film boxes and wrappers.

We also gave him the super-8 films as we finished shooting a cartridge.

He threw them away along with the refuse.


-Alex






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[Alex]

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I once filmed from the ledge of the roof of the Taft building in Hollywood, 13 stories up.

I had a tremendous fear of heights, but by the third day I was leaning over the flimsy ledge of the Taft building shooting time-lapse stuff for this guys "project".

One of his buddies who knew nothing about Super-8 would come around to pick up all of our extraneous film boxes and wrappers.

We also gave him the super-8 films as we finished shooting a cartridge.

He threw them away along with the refuse.
-Alex
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Quite prophetic with what is going on with my status on this board.

Again, what a "catalyst" I was for bringing this topic back to page one several times so new browsers could see it, respond to it, and join this forum....

Alex the "Catalyst"...hmmm, has a nice ring...thanks Mike.

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Alex

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[blue demon]

These sure are good stories.