KingEdwardII Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 8 hours ago, Pacific231G said: shows how thin the line between melodrama and hilarious comedy really is Indeed, which made "Airplane!" such a hoot. Yours, Mike. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 Ah, yes, the propeller noise on a jet plane, lovely long running gag throughout the film! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10 23 hours ago, Hobby said: Ah, yes, the propeller noise on a jet plane, lovely long running gag throughout the film! Do-able though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Not the same thing, that has both types of engines on it, like the early test rigs for jet engines (the Lancaster was one), the whole point with the gag that was the plane was jet engined but the sound we heard was of propellers! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 11 minutes ago, Hobby said: Not the same thing, that has both types of engines on it, like the early test rigs for jet engines (the Lancaster was one), the whole point with the gag that was the plane was jet engined but the sound we heard was of propellers! Similarly anachronistically (but also amusingly), they have the references to Striker’s military service, which we assume is Vietnam or perhaps, at a stretch, Korea or WW2 but has flashbacks with footage of various bizarre early (pre-WW1?) aircraft. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jeremy Cumberland Posted August 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10 (edited) You know, I never realised I had missed so much from Airplane! I'm going to have to watch it again now. Airplane! got namechecked in yesterday's Guardian, in an article about memorable experiences of watching films with your children/parents (https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/09/sobbing-in-the-aisles-writers-on-their-most-memorable-parent-kid-film-experiences): Quote “Show me a classic,” my teenage stepson demanded, although what’s classic to me doesn’t always translate. When the kid was 11, we watched Airplane! together and it went down in flames. I saw it as a knockabout spoof of 70s disaster movies. He saw it as a nightmarish drama about a stricken plane in which all the passengers have been driven mad from terror. He said: “Why are they joking? They’re all going to die.” Edited August 10 by Jeremy Cumberland 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt37268 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 3 hours ago, Jeremy Cumberland said: You know, I never realised I had missed so much from Airplane! I'm going to have to watch it again now. Airplane! got namechecked in yesterday's Guardian, in an article about memorable experiences of watching films with your children/parents (https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/09/sobbing-in-the-aisles-writers-on-their-most-memorable-parent-kid-film-experiences): You have to watch Airplane several times, there’s always something you’ll miss 😀 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 10 17 minutes ago, Matt37268 said: You have to watch Airplane several times, there’s always something you’ll miss 😀 Surely not! Mike. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt37268 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 8 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Surely not! Mike. Don’t call me Shirley! 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 4 hours ago, Matt37268 said: You have to watch Airplane several times, there’s always something you’ll miss 😀 You have clearance. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Not just a film that included trains, this one has it in the title! I'm also shocked (shocked!) to see Claude Rains on a bicycle. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt37268 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 2 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: You have clearance. Roger, Roger, what’s our Vector Victor? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11 12 hours ago, Matt37268 said: Roger, Roger, what’s our Vector Victor? Do you like movies about gladiators? Mike. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt37268 Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 4 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Do you like movies about gladiators? Mike. Nervous? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted August 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 13 Been catching up on old episodes of The Bill again. You can tell when production moved from North London to Merton, the endless railway locations change from Midland and Western region to south of the river NSE territory. Already mentioned is an early episode where DC Mike Dashers Dashwood gets to meet a snout in Old Oak Common depot, complete with spinning turntable and lots of locos moving about, well the lucky Detective Constable some years later got to meet another snout in the old disused sections of Euston Underground station! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold C126 Posted August 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 17 Just wanted to draw attention to Thursday's Look at Life, supposedly about co-ordinating Britain's transport networks in the 1960's: https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-1r2yfs/look-at-life/episodes/?episode=b-dmpg97 They were certainly building lots of new things, but whether it was co-ordinated... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TinTracks Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 Greetings All. There's a nice one for us of the narrow gauge persuasion this sunday 18th August. Channel 4 at 6pm are repeating the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway episode of World's Greatest Train Journeys From Above. That's me and the missus sorted for an hour Regards, Rich 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I found an absolutely daft one yesterday, hokey Italian crime/spy/type film "Danger;Diabolik". About the 'adventures' of a violent anti-hero super thief, apparently the film is best known for inspiring the music video for "Body Movin" by the Beastie Boys. Anyway, there's a scene about 3/4 way through with the Government moving their gold, which they expect Diabolik to pinch. So they've melted it into a massive ingot, encased it in armour, and are moving it on a train. Some nice low angle shots of the gold train, and then a gratuitous model shot with an absolutely huge bridge (which doesn't match the real-life footage), a gigantic explosion, and the open wagon with the gold dropping into the water somewhat unconvincingly. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 12 hours ago, Ben B said: I found an absolutely daft one yesterday, hokey Italian crime/spy/type film "Danger;Diabolik". About the 'adventures' of a violent anti-hero super thief, apparently the film is best known for inspiring the music video for "Body Movin" by the Beastie Boys. Anyway, there's a scene about 3/4 way through with the Government moving their gold, which they expect Diabolik to pinch. So they've melted it into a massive ingot, encased it in armour, and are moving it on a train. Some nice low angle shots of the gold train, and then a gratuitous model shot with an absolutely huge bridge (which doesn't match the real-life footage), a gigantic explosion, and the open wagon with the gold dropping into the water somewhat unconvincingly. It's quite a cult film this, made at the same time as 'Barbarella', with some surprising cameo too. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted August 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 18 A bit of a thin one here but has anyone watched Hope Street the Northern Ireland based police series. It is filmed in Donaghadee which was at the end of a Branch line from Bangor. Many shots are of the pier and the line of rails down the pier can be clearly seen. I've no idea when it closed but I suspect that it's well over 60 years. It also shows up on Google earth. Jamie 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted August 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22 Been recording from http://www.thats.tv/ sky 191 also on freeview goes out silly oclock the one about Irish NG peat railways is good liked the inloading drum and coupling................ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22 Haven't really studied the schedules for That's TV but have occasionally stumbled on railway content like 'cab-ride' style journeys (with narration) on steam railways e.g. Ffestiniog/Vale Of Rheidol etc. I suspect they are just broadcasts of existing videos/DVDs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted August 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30 We've just finished watching "Platform 7" on ITV this week; very good story based around the ghost of a woman who apparently took her own life jumping in front of a train. Mostly shot on the main platform at Keighley, with Pacers, 31s and 50s hauling Mk3 stock and P.Way trains. Interestingly though for the station frontage, they clearly filmed outside Kidderminster (SVR); I assume it was easier to add fictional train company and place names to a station that might be closed for the filming period, which you can't really do with Keighley station. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium CloggyDog Posted August 31 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31 19 hours ago, Northmoor said: We've just finished watching "Platform 7" on ITV this week; very good story based around the ghost of a woman who apparently took her own life jumping in front of a train. Mostly shot on the main platform at Keighley, with Pacers, 31s and 50s hauling Mk3 stock and P.Way trains. KWVR resident 20 031 features quite a bit too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted September 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7 Watching "The Fourth Protocol", 1987 movie of Frederick Forsyth's 1984 novel starring Michael "you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" Caine and a pre-007 Pierce Brosnan. About 90 min in there are some scenes of a (very clean blue & grey) class 312 in St Pancras, then departing St P, some footage inside the train, then some of it arriving in what looks like Bedford. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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