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The the original background landscape scrim from the 1956 film Forbidden Planet (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world
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I came across this May 19, 2017

This is the original background landscape scrim from the 1956 film FORBIDDEN PLANET.

It "was" still around and being used as a backdrop for modeling shoots. I think it belongs in a museum. I'm afraid once the need for it no longer exist, it will be tossed out as trash. ๐Ÿ™
?EDIT: I did some digging... Forbidden Planet Backdrop @5:35 time mark. Oct 3, 2019 Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8tA-QksbT90

The Art Directors Guild project to save 207 hand-painted backdrops is covered in detail in this part of the Historical Society's presentation about saving movie history -- along with the question and answer session during the evening.

-- Arthur Lane (who took the photo and shared it.)

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[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's really cool, I love stuff like this. Movie making in the time before CGI, fabulous.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's also one of my all-time favorite movies. I've watched it at least a dozen times. We wouldn't have Star Trek if it wasn't made.

[โ€“] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're not kidding!

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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it also might be the first "Shakespeare but in a different setting" film, being shot in 1956. It's a loose adaptation of The Tempest. Even the Broadway version of West Side Story came out a year later. The film didn't come out until 1961.

Edit: No, that apparently goes to Strange Illusion, shot in 1945. It's a loose adaptation of Hamlet- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038126/?ref_=ls_t_12

[โ€“] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

And it's smooth too!

[โ€“] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I LOVE this! Thank you for sharing.

[โ€“] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not how I pictured you, Squid.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's not how I pictured me either. Especially since I wasn't there at the time.

[โ€“] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I love how they used practical effects for the star wars mivies.