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- Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:26 pm
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Leslie Special headlights - non functional
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Leslie Special headlights - non functional
The Leslie Special's headlights are only ever turned on in two scenes of the film: [1] when Leslie and Max are driving to the Baron's castle headlights1.jpg [2] when Max is driving the Leslie special after Leslie has broken in to the castle. headlights3.jpg Straight after the first scene, you see th...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:39 pm
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Balloon stunt location
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Re: Balloon stunt location
Contemporary photo galleries from the local newspaper suggest that filming of the Balloon stunt (and the biplane stunt) were done on Oct-28 and Oct-30 1964. http://www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/2015/05/27/gallery-l-the-filming-of-the-great-race/28032117/ News reports in the same paper...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:36 am
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Rocket stunt location
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Re: Rocket stunt location
The building next to the tracks was the "Duckers General Store", and you can just make out the word "ICE" on the little building outside the store. Plainly the building has been reclad in the meantime, and the front balcony has been built over, but the general shape is still the ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:27 am
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Rocket stunt location
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Rocket stunt location
I stumbled onto a post on Amazon.com describing the exact location this was filmed at. I was 13 when this came out. Can't drive by Ducker's Road just off the Old Frankfort Pike (road #1681 in Kentucky) without stopping to take a look at the filming location of Fate and Max's launch of their ill-fate...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:39 am
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Balloon stunt location
- Replies: 2
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Re: Balloon stunt location
I'm still trying to find a bit of background matching these images: (the white barns in the back left corner could be the same as in the above image) Contemporary reports say that it was filmed at "Mereworth Farm", but that is over near Lexington, a long way from the background I found alr...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:28 am
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Balloon stunt location
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Balloon stunt location
Listed sometimes as "Frankfort, Kentucky", it's between Frankfort and Versailles in Kentucky. I've located one of the backgrounds on Google maps, at https://goo.gl/maps/T2DoKYRgkUs ky1.jpg ge1a.jpg gm1.jpg Note the triangular lake on the left, and the two barns in the foreground. The large...
- Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:44 am
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Steam train v Hannibal 8
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Re: Steam train v Hannibal 8
The steam train is "Sierra No. 3", which has appeared in many movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_No._3
so this section of track is probably somewhere on the Sierra Railroad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_No._3
so this section of track is probably somewhere on the Sierra Railroad
- Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:10 am
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Steam train v Hannibal 8
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Steam train v Hannibal 8
Just after Boracho, and before the Leslie Special reaches Grommet, Professor Fate tries to take a short cut via some railway tracks, but meets a train coming the other way. He appears to join the tracks before a trestle bridge, cross the bridge, then meets the train, but in fact this is back on the ...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:16 pm
- Forum: Obscure trivia
- Topic: Potzdorf Cathedral
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Potzdorf Cathedral
The exterior shots of the Cathedral in Potzdorf is actually of Salzberg Cathedral in Austria. The Cathedral was first consecrated in 1628, and this date is visible over the central doorway as Fate flees the crowning. The building was damaged in WW2, and repairs were not completed until 1959. That da...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Things I didn't notice the first time I saw the film
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Things I didn't notice the first time I saw the film
⋅ At 39:30, when Fate and Max rush to the garage after Maggie breaks in, you can see there is a full moose behind the moose head on the wall. ⋅ At 1:32:15, on the iceberg, Maggie is cooking on the Hannibal 8's nose-cone. ⋅ At 1:51:32, in the Potzdorf ballroom, you see ...