[R-390] R-390A vs RA 17

[Roger L Ruszkowski]

In the background is a room with a glass
wall and several racks of RA-17 types and associated gear. Considering
these
were filmed in the 1960s, you have to wonder where they shot these scenes.
I'm guessing the gear was still current technology and used for many years
to come, like our venerable R-390s.


Fellows,

I did the robot for "Revenge of the Nerds Part III". I saw what got filmed
on a set and what you see of my robot in the movie. No comparison.

A lot of those back ground scenes are lots of 35MM slide projectors
set up behind a transparent projection screen. All the slides are masked
and set into position. guys spend days projecting things onto screens
and taking photos. When you get the whole wall just right you take some
more photos. Then you only have to get one projector set up for the scene.

I had some "wall paper" that was a city skyline. It was shot and printed on
poster sheets of print film. When pasted together on a wall it became the
view from the balcony in a movie. The whole scene got played in front of
what amounts to a large photo wall mural.

Prior to the movie being filmed, Set guys go through phot archives and find
these nifty things populate back ground scenes. More work went into getting
the finger prints and glare off the glass so we can see what is behind the
glass
than when into doing the nifty mural or communications equipment we see.

I wish the folks in Hollywood would under stand the value of these wall
paper scenes
and make then available to us fans.

When I was growing up one wall of my bed room was wall papered in
a single sheet of blue print paper. The drawing was a 2x real size
or the 1958 Chevy dash board. Dad put a coat of paste on the wall and
brushed the whole sheet up at once. He trimmed the edge to fit and
glued the edge down. It faded over time and was just great.

We could have whole walls that looked like star ship walls and
city skylines and nature scenes.

The Tesla coil at Griffith Observatory in Los Angles would be OK.

Roger