Posted on that here: https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=172
9/11 Incoming from 1979...
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Film trivia:
Several visual effects production teams were fired during the course of the lengthy production for failing to produce adequate effects on a very limited budget. The final company was forced to provide the effects seen in this movie for what money remained, seriously compromising the results.
The movie was inspired by the 1967 "Project Icarus" report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The shots containing the buildings collapsing in the NYC destruction scene, were taken from footage of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis, Missouri...which has quite the Atomic dark experiments history.
In 1972, three Pruitt-Igoe buildings were condemned and demolished, famously, on TV. The rest followed shortly after, televised on the nightly news, harkening the “end of modernism.”
Principal photography was shut down for two days when Sir Sean Connery contracted a respiratory condition during the filming of the mud sequence. The mud also knocked Connery off his feet, buried Karl Malden twice, while Natalie Wood was almost sucked into one of the pumps. During the mud filming, the actors and actresses would stuff their ears with cotton-wool, and had to have their eyes washed out, at the completion of each take.
Lots of those disturbing cold war stories and one from the Smithsonian of all places...In the 1950’s MIT and the Atomic Energy Commission, with the cooperation of the Quaker Oats Company, fed radioactive corn flakes to developmentally disabled Massachusetts orphans who thought they were getting free breakfast from a science club — they did this for a decade.
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A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down
9/11 Incoming from 1979...
Film trivia:
Several visual effects production teams were fired during the course of the lengthy production for failing to produce adequate effects on a very limited budget. The final company was forced to provide the effects seen in this movie for what money remained, seriously compromising the results.
The movie was inspired by the 1967 "Project Icarus" report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The shots containing the buildings collapsing in the NYC destruction scene, were taken from footage of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis, Missouri...which has quite the Atomic dark experiments history.
In 1972, three Pruitt-Igoe buildings were condemned and demolished, famously, on TV. The rest followed shortly after, televised on the nightly news, harkening the “end of modernism.”
Principal photography was shut down for two days when Sir Sean Connery contracted a respiratory condition during the filming of the mud sequence. The mud also knocked Connery off his feet, buried Karl Malden twice, while Natalie Wood was almost sucked into one of the pumps. During the mud filming, the actors and actresses would stuff their ears with cotton-wool, and had to have their eyes washed out, at the completion of each take.
Lots of those disturbing cold war stories and one from the Smithsonian of all places...In the 1950’s MIT and the Atomic Energy Commission, with the cooperation of the Quaker Oats Company, fed radioactive corn flakes to developmentally disabled Massachusetts orphans who thought they were getting free breakfast from a science club — they did this for a decade.
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down
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