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Old 19-01-2007, 01:30 AM
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"Looking stupid..." I imagine Photo #8 where the lass has her mouth opened like the Straits of Gilbraltar didn't help her career - unless she was into modeling for rail tunnels and other bottomless pits. Hopefully, THAT photog and the mag editor met with an equally unseemly end.

Or did they merely get together on this latest Bond pix so they could put in a few unflattering shots of Daniel 007?

This is one reason all models should be wearing stilettos. One never knows whose eye really needs a good poking!

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"Looking stupid..." I imagine Photo #8
Huh?

Photo 8?

I can't get past 4&5......


1939?
Wow!
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We had a better diet in 1939.
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Old 08-05-2007, 08:27 AM
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I had a look on IMDB and found Fred Woods (1) and a lonely credit for Star Wars 1977....(No make up)
Watched Withnail & I on TV the other night and there was Fred, at the start of the movie, reading the News of The World!! You only see the top half of his face......

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The film Snowbound (1949) with Robert Newton and Dennis Price starts with Dennis Price's character working as an extra in a film studio. This is probably a pretty realistic portrayal of how things were at that time. They seem to have been recruited on an almost daily basis, did their bit, got their money and that was it. Not much of a career.
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When I worked as an actor a lot of the extras said they only did it to gain access to the incredible catering that was usually on offer. All that food and money too ....

Some of my friends still do extra work now and again. They report that the catering is still very good and that the general working conditions are much better ... save for the occasional maniacal director !!!!

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Great pictures Steve! 1939, I was still being educated. As a third and second Assistant Director, I had a lot of contact with the extras. They were a great bunch, many became friends. We could not make films without them!!

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Great pictures Steve! 1939, I was still being educated. As a third and second Assistant Director, I had a lot of contact with the extras. They were a great bunch, many became friends. We could not make films without them!!

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A great man once said "There are no small or unimportant parts in a film. While you're on screen you're just as important as everyone else on that screen."

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Penfold, Sounds very interesting. Had two uncles who played cowboys during the twenties but was too young to remember anything they may have said about it. This may have been before Central Casting and the 'five dollars and a box lunch' deal of the thirties. Of course, it would have been different in Britain.
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I goofed; Read only the first page and missed the dates, sometimes, I think I'm getting old.
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I wonder what kind of "network" that ADs build on their climb "to the top" with such people. Aitch's and others' tales of getting calls from these people make me reflect on the comfort and ease a common set of good extras and support crew help the film's final product. It's got to be easier and quicker for the filmmakers to complete shots - especially those large ones - if they've got at least a core group of extras who have good experience.
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Most AD's had extras that they relied on to help with large crowds,or tricky shots. They helped a lot in getting the day's work done well.

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Most AD's had extras that they relied on to help with large crowds,or tricky shots. They helped a lot in getting the day's work done well.

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Morning John.

While filming on tricky locations the A.D.s would have a few of the well known chaps to act as Public Liasion people,,(I never said Minders )

I remember this job.......

THE HOLCROFT COVENANT…Director John Frankenheimer…
Cast Inc…Michael Caine…Anthony Andrews…Victoria Tennant…
Filming in Trafalgar Square with about a hundred Supporting Artists and five hundred tourists is not the easiest thing to do..
Jerry Judge, myself and another handful of the boys were doing our public liaison work.
Jerry was down in the Square keeping his eye on the camera crew and trying to keep the rubber necks from peering down the lens..
I was keeping my eye on Michael who was sitting up the steps of a church behind a pillar reading his script..
It was going all right until after lunch and the pubs turned out then a few Jack the lads decided they wanted to be in the film. Jerry and the boys handled them ok but I saw one heading to where Michael was sitting and decided to talk to him. It went a bit like this...
Me: "Hello mate, where’re you going?"
Him: "I’m gonna talk to my mate Micky Caine"
Me: "I’m sorry but he’s busy at the moment learning his script"
Him: "But I only want a chat with him, I’ve seen all his films"
Me: "Could you come back later when he’s not so busy?"
Him: "No I f***ing can’t and you can tell him from me I said b*****ks to his film"
Me: "Thank you very much Sir, I’ll tell him when he’s not too busy".
With that, he slopes away and that’s the last we saw of him.
I don’t think Michael ever saw the incident but if you ever read this Michael I’ve got a message from a punter in Trafalgar Square to pass onto you.. (And give my regards to the Hackney Lizard).
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Morning John.

While filming on tricky locations the A.D.s would have a few of the well known chaps to act as Public Liasion people,,(I never said Minders )
Michael Powell's personal assistant was Bill Paton, a short, stocky Shetlander that he'd met while they were making The Edge of the World (1937). Bill helped Michael for the rest of his career except for a short break when he joined the Navy during the war. With people like Bill in the Navy it's no wonder we won.

They were on a location once and the crowd kept on being noisy despite being asked nicely to keep quiet. Bill said "I'll sort them out Mr Powell". Micky never saw exactly what happened but the crowd was as good as gold for the rest of the shoot. They had been well and truly "sorted out" by Bill

Bill's other job was as the shoot came to an end, to have rucksacks packed because they would always head for the hills of Scotland for a walking tour. That acted as a break for Micky. It cleared his head after all the pressures of directing a big film.

One other nice story about Bill is that he came home on leave one time, just in time to join the wrap party after they'd made A Canterbury Tale. At the same time, the daughter of the real Horton brothers came home on leave as well. The Hortons were the real blacksmith and wheelwright that the ones in the film were based on. Those scenes were shot in their yard and they can be seen acting as assistants to the actors playing them. Myrtle Horton was the daughter of Neville Horton, the blacksmith, and she'd been in London, serving with the Red Cross. So it was pure coincidence that Bill & Myrtle were both there at the same time, but they were. And yes, they met and fell instantly and deeply in love. The married 6 months later in Chilham and stayed happily together until Bill's death in 1997

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Aitch!
Funny but true yarn..Thanks. Strange how we have all been through it!

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