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Filmed in May 1969 (based on onscreen evidence)

posted 15 years ago by cryptical70
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Sometimes you can tell when a movie was filmed based on magazines and newspapers seen on the screen. When the Kellermans are entering the airport, they stop at the news stand, and purchase a magazine. If you look closely, on the magazine rack (at the top on the right of said rack) is an issue of LIFE with a yellow cover. Upon close examination, it can be identified as the May 16, 1969 issue entitled "Collision Course In High Schools."

Check the link below and see if you can spot the LIFe in the scene at the airport!!

http://www.2neatmagazines.com/life/1969cover.html

[–] rockmail 15 years ago

Maybe, maybe not. Many newsstands in movies are props, so they could have old editions from the past, or custom printed editions from the future.

Not the best way to absolutely confirm information, but a start, I guess.

You're probably okay with this movie, but current movies have all kinds of rights issues with publications, so you may even have computer generated/edited images as well.

[–] cryptical70 15 years ago

I would say I'm right because the movie set was actually inside the terminal at McArthur Airport. I don't think the producers needed to change around anything, and decided to film the newsstand how it was at the time.

[–] ButterflyD2525 15 years ago

Also you can tell by the weather, by how people are dressed in the background. This was filmed in NY, so it had to be spring or summer of 69, also films are usually a 3 month shoot so May sounds right and it went into July and maybe wrapped in August. Wikipedia also lists that the airport seen on Long Island was filmed in May 1969.

[–] cryptical70 15 years ago

Actually I believe the Airport footage took place at the end of the production, so most likely the movie was filmed from April and May of 1969.

[–] leccese7 15 years ago

Definitely true . My Mother In Law worked at the Airport in May 1969 and my Brother in Law ( age 12 at the time ) where both there and witnessed the filming at the time. We all remember it well. They came home the day of the filming and told us all about it. When the movie came out in 1970 we all couldn't wait to see it because we knew it had been filmed there.
True story .

[–] golbez-1 14 years ago

The Copyright notice below the film's title at the begenning says 1969.

[–] information_police 14 years ago

I noticed a aerial shot of southern Manhattan was lacking any sign of the twin towers so that shot had to be from some time in 1969 or earlier. Of course that means nothing about when the rest of the movie was filmed - could have been a stock shot.

Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

[–] stagebandman 14 years ago

You know it usually takes months of post-production between the completion of filming and the release of a movie, right? So it was filmed in 1969 and released in 1970? BIG DEAL! That's nothing. Foley, sound, editing, music, printing, all done after filming is completed. You think this is done overnight? Sheesh, that's really an ignorant comment.

If we all liked the same movie, there'd only be one movie!

[–] cryptical70 14 years ago

This innocuous & insignificant thread (which I started) is just to bring up a fun fact, not to stir up controversy, so I don't know why you have to bring up "ignorant comment" silliness.

[–] stagebandman 14 years ago

You're right. I apologize. I misread what your meaning was. I thought you were one of those nitpickers who can't figure out how long it takes to put a movie out. That, clearly, was not your intent. I'm sorry for my malicious comment. I must have been pissed off about something. No excues.

If we all liked the same movie, there'd only be one movie!

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[–] Homestead2 13 years ago

My Mom and I happened to see this film in the theater sometime in 1970 (probably summer), and to see it now makes me realize how much I relate to those times - but not to today's world (though I do my best)...

It's proably very hard for someone much younger to understand why I'd say that, but the world 40 years ago was in many ways completely different from today...

We had something happen at work recently that made me realize this - someone in our office had a minor disagreement and "broke the plane" when it came to standing at someone's desk, but if you told someone 40 years ago that their co-worker had "broken the plane" they'd have looked out the window and said, "Gee, I didn't know he new how to fly!", so proof once again that what we speak in today's world probably had a completely different meaning years ago...

Glades2

[–] hotspurpagg 10 years ago

There are also posters seen for a few flop Broadway musicals from early 1969 such as "Dear World" and "Come Summer" - the latter production opened on the 18th March 1969 and closed seven performances later.