Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: Rob Wood on August 01, 2013, 03:04:39 am

Title: Films with Model Boats in them.
Post by: Rob Wood on August 01, 2013, 03:04:39 am
The 1970 film, Tora! Tora! Tora! used large models of Japanese warships quite effectively. After the filming was done, the models were placed in storage, and slowly began to fall apart. They were rescued and restored by some dedicated modelers, and are now on display in the Armed Forces Museum in Largo, Florida, U.S.A.

http://travelforaircraft.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/tora-tora-tora-write/ (http://travelforaircraft.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/tora-tora-tora-write/)

(http://travelforaircraft.files.wordpress.com/9912/12/blog-ijn-ushio-ijn-tone-ijn-hatsushimo_mg_1245.jpg?w=600&h=400)
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 21, 2014, 04:46:36 pm

What films can we name with actual Model Boats in them?
 ( not scale model that represent real ships )


Cleopatra is on the telly at the moment and a model Egyptian barge just made a showing!
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Post by: surfs up on November 21, 2014, 05:01:34 pm
Run Fat Boy Run

Myself and Alan (unbuiltnautas) spent a great day on set filming with our boats

Surf
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Post by: unbuiltnautilus on November 21, 2014, 05:37:11 pm
Yes we did, it was great! was it the black Park boys who helped us out?

The Yangtze Incident. About 9' model of HMS Amethyst was still about three years ago, making an appearance on Ebay. Used for the night time 'running the barrier' scenes.
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Post by: U-33 on November 21, 2014, 06:15:20 pm
Das Boot...


Rich
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Post by: Klunk on November 21, 2014, 06:58:21 pm
In which we serve
the sea shall not have them
the hamlet cigar advert!
Sink the bismarck
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Post by: TheLongBuild on November 21, 2014, 07:03:13 pm
Hornblower Series
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Post by: Colin Bishop on November 21, 2014, 07:08:43 pm
In Harm's Way.
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 21, 2014, 07:18:53 pm
Where?   {:-{

Das Boot...

Rich
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Post by: essex2visuvesi on November 21, 2014, 07:48:21 pm
Thunderbirds
Stingray
Captain Scarlett
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Post by: Klunk on November 21, 2014, 07:51:37 pm
Thunderbirds
Stingray
Captain Scarlett
theres always one!!! %%
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Post by: U-33 on November 21, 2014, 08:07:18 pm
Where?   {:-{


The U-96 was a model sub, or one of several built in different sizes for the film. The main one was practically a full size replica, but still a model. I believe I'm right in saying that there is one of the models sitting outside a building somewhere in England, but I'm dammed if I can think of the name of the place.


Rich
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Post by: Nemo on November 21, 2014, 09:38:14 pm
My 'AFRICAN QUEEN' production.

"OOOH I hate leeches"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F29pIlLHEn8

Bob.
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Post by: TheLongBuild on November 21, 2014, 10:11:23 pm
Where?   {:-{

http://modelshipsinthecinema.com/wp/archives/107
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Post by: joppyuk1 on November 21, 2014, 10:18:21 pm
There was a submarine from one of the Bond films on display at Chatham last time we were there.
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Post by: Arrow5 on November 21, 2014, 10:52:04 pm
 Das Boot models plus interiors used in the production can be seen in the Bavaria Film Studios museum in Munich , Germany.   www.filmstadt.de
Title: Re: Films with Model Boats in them.
Post by: grendel on November 22, 2014, 08:47:25 am
FX (the film about the special effects guy ) there is a shot where the girl carries a model boat to the boating pool.
Grendel
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Post by: Umi_Ryuzuki on November 22, 2014, 08:50:58 am
Off the top of my head,...
The Abyss
Tora Tora Tora
The Enemy Below
Destination Tokyo
Battle of River Plate
Sink the BismarckSUBMARINE X-1

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Godzilla VS the Sea Monster(ebira)
Title: Re: Films with Model Boats in them.
Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 22, 2014, 09:02:32 am
 
Ah, but I'm talking model boats portrayed as model boats in film, not model boats used as subtitle for real boats!

ie: open scene in The 39 Steps (1959 film)

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,47643.msg482464.html#msg482464
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Post by: Umi_Ryuzuki on November 22, 2014, 09:06:08 am
Well then,...
Stuart Little
Tugs, the childrens tv series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bba44HvMnOs&list=PLs6BOQsroKtEw7rrNgiy0hGRwf9zXqnSH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bba44HvMnOs&list=PLs6BOQsroKtEw7rrNgiy0hGRwf9zXqnSH)


 :-)
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Post by: roycv on November 22, 2014, 09:25:26 am
Hi all, I am thinking that the original post was for "model' boats featured as models not the models used by film makers etc. to simulate real scenes.

The Philadelphia Story" has a superb model sailing boat sailed on a swimming pool.  The re-make of the film was called "High Society" and the same scene had a really crap model boat in it.

One of my favourite films "Captains Courageous" with Spencer Tracy sees the captain whittling away at a very nice model of his schooner "We're here".  If you are into Grand Banks fishing schooners (a whole fleet of them) look no further.  The Disney re-make was pathetic!

And we must not miss out "The 39 Steps" opening sequence of a model paddle steamer, I think nicely featured in Model Boats magazine.

By the way I thought that Mike Mayhew in a TV series a while back about model making showed incredible patience dealing with the TV presenter.

regards Roy





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Post by: Bob K on November 22, 2014, 10:51:47 am
One I am seriously considering building, the little boat in which Iggle Piggle sails to The Night Garden on CBBC.

(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n626/bobkiralfy/ITNGboat_zps2b05cf5d.jpg) (http://s1143.photobucket.com/user/bobkiralfy/media/ITNGboat_zps2b05cf5d.jpg.html)

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krBG2WZAoZ4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krBG2WZAoZ4) for intro and songs.
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 22, 2014, 11:38:31 am
 
     {-)
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 22, 2014, 11:39:07 am
Quote
  "Captains Courageous" with Spencer Tracy

Hmmm, don't know that film...
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Post by: Tug Fanatic on November 22, 2014, 11:42:33 am
If we include TV drama series there was an episode of Poirot where Hastings had a lovely pond yacht in a London Park pond.
 
Plus there have been lots of adaptations of the Winnie the Poo sticks idea (boats racing on the current flow in a stream). There was one in a gardening program this week and I am sure that I remember one in a Rosemary & Thyme episode.
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Post by: roycv on November 22, 2014, 12:20:12 pm
Hi Martin Captains Courageous 1937 film a fair bit on You tube.
Excellent film.
regards Roy
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Post by: a3nige on November 22, 2014, 12:48:58 pm
An episode of 'Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps' had some model boats in one scene, don't know which one though, but I imagine the modellers were involved with the filming.
Nige
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 22, 2014, 05:42:44 pm
 
I saw that one Nige!   :-))
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Post by: TheLongBuild on November 22, 2014, 05:54:25 pm
An episode of 'Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps' had some model boats in one scene, don't know which one though, but I imagine the modellers were involved with the filming.
Nige

This I have been led to believe was in fact filmed at our Pond at Runcorn with members of Runcorn and District in attendance  :-))
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Post by: Nemo on November 22, 2014, 08:22:10 pm
Pooh Sticks?  Model boats?  {-) {-)  You are having a laugh??  {-) {-)

Martin - does Computer Generated Imagery count?  :}


'WE DIVE AT DAWN' British submarine film. Good old Johnny Mills as the skipper.
Eric Portman played Leading Seaman Hobson who makes a model submarine for his son and gives it to him when on leave.
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Post by: Mad Scientist on November 22, 2014, 09:12:17 pm
Here's a link to a classic Canadian short film: https://www.nfb.ca/film/paddle_to_the_sea/

The carved boat is the star of the show!

Tom
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Post by: Umi_Ryuzuki on November 23, 2014, 12:01:26 am
Here's a link to a classic Canadian short film: https://www.nfb.ca/film/paddle_to_the_sea/

The carved boat is the star of the show!

Tom

My mother used to bring films home from the school library, and my dad had use of the
church's 16mm projector, I can't believe I forgot about this film. It was a classic in our household.

 :-)) :-)) :-))
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Post by: roycv on November 23, 2014, 12:10:08 am
Hi just watched it for the first time what a great little film.
Roy
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Post by: Arrow5 on November 23, 2014, 10:49:38 am
Paddle to the sea was the very first book I withdrew from a public library,I must have been about 10 years old.
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Post by: Tug Fanatic on November 23, 2014, 03:27:48 pm
Pooh Sticks?  Model boats?  {-) {-)  You are having a laugh??  {-) {-).................

Definitely tongue in cheek  %) but hey these are model boats and they are playing Poo Sticks in "Glorious Gardens from Above - Essex". It isn't very often that TV makes any model boats look like fun.

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Post by: Klunk on November 23, 2014, 06:46:51 pm
Small soldiers. Just watched it on TV.  Although at the end they launch the boat going up stream with no sail! ! I'll have to watch that bit again to confirm  that!
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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 08:26:41 pm
Would you believe Grace Kelly playing with a model yacht? About 2 minutes in .....

 :}  Bob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAO8vlvPS88#t=139

Or Adolf Hitler in his bath?  (Mein Führer – The Absolutely Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (2007))  :-)



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Post by: grendel on November 23, 2014, 08:53:12 pm
is it the film run fat boy run, where the boyfriend (simon peggs rival) yells at some kids whose boat runs into his at a boating pool.
Grendel
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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 08:58:04 pm
Charles Hawtrey plays with a model galley in his bath in 'Carry on Cleo'.
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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 09:03:18 pm

'Three Coins in the Fountain'

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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 09:04:27 pm

'Beau Geste' Small boys set fire to a ship in a pond.

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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 09:15:51 pm

'That'll be the Day' with David Essex. Scroll forward to 1h21m30secs to see model boats on pond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHOvvYzySTQ
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Post by: Bob K on November 23, 2014, 09:22:24 pm
The TV series Midsommer Murders featured the lifeboat and lifeboat station at Bekonscot Model Village.
Here is a photo of me in that lifeboat !

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,43006.msg450069.html#msg450069 (http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,43006.msg450069.html#msg450069)

 Bob K
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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 09:31:14 pm
Leslie Dwyer takes his model yacht to the beach in Double Confession (1950).
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Post by: Nemo on November 23, 2014, 09:48:32 pm
 French film 'Boudu Saved from Drowning' (1932): This took some finding!  %%
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Post by: unbuiltnautilus on November 23, 2014, 11:40:13 pm
is it the film run fat boy run, where the boyfriend (simon peggs rival) yells at some kids whose boat runs into his at a boating pool.
Grendel
 
 


Yup, I was driving the sailing ship for the days filming, and it was run into by a Robbe Wetbike belonging, I think to a member of Black Park Model Boat Club. They wanted to know if we could crash one model into the other. The sailing ship being built like a brick privvy was more than a match for the little German plastic thing!
Hank Azaria, playing the boyfriend, then performed a leap into the water, grabbing the model in question, holding it aloft and asking "WHOSE BOAT IS THIS?" repeatedly. The two children who are running the wetbike look all innocent while chucking the transmitter into the pond!
The grabbing of the model was shot in two takes, as the first time it was grabbed, the lid came off in his hand, leaving the rest of the model hanging by just one little connector..so broke by a movie star.
It was fortunate that the local club was in attendance, as the films runners had purchased a couple of RTR models locally for the filming, only to discover that A) they had no range to talk of, and B) the batteries went flat in ten minutes. One of the boats drifting off to the far side of the pond never to be seen again, while the chief runner was busy blaming all the other runners for the total disaster unfolding. lucky for them model boaters came to their aid, with a Fireboat and the Wetbike providing the other models seen in the scene.
The transmitter for the RTR that drifted off across the lake was the transmitter seen being lobbed into the pond by the two children, a fitting end for cheap RTR tat!
It rained all afternoon (and you cannot tell when watching the film), and the food was great, so all in all a great day out playing boats!
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Post by: TailUK on November 24, 2014, 09:22:52 am
One of the submarine models from that misbegotten nonsense "U 571" is on display at Bletchley Park.
 
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Post by: hopeitfloats on November 24, 2014, 11:12:05 am
not a film but a doco series. might be either rivers with griff rhys jones or coast. that had model boats on a pond. think there might have been some mayhemers involved from memory.
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Post by: Nemo on November 24, 2014, 11:59:58 am
1. From 'That'll be the day' again. With James Booth.
2. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 'Be Big'.
3.  'Walkabout'. ( Rower unknown actor). ;)
4. John Lennon in 'Hard Days Night'
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Post by: Nemo on November 24, 2014, 12:11:16 pm
'Beau Geste' again.
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Post by: Nemo on November 24, 2014, 12:20:03 pm
1. In 'Prosperos Books' with John Gielgud.
2. From 'What Dreams May Come'
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Post by: Nemo on November 24, 2014, 01:29:18 pm

Woody Allen in 'Manhattan' thinking about taking up the hobby.

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Post by: Nemo on November 24, 2014, 04:39:02 pm

From - 'High Wind in Jamaica'.

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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 24, 2014, 05:21:44 pm
 
Excellent work Nemo, keep 'em coming!

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Post by: Nemo on November 24, 2014, 11:00:21 pm
'Three Coins in the Fountain' again - this time in full Cinemascope! Dorothy MacGuire getting soaked while Clifton Webb watches!

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Post by: Nemo on December 05, 2014, 04:51:04 pm
From an episode of 'The Avengers'.

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Post by: TailUK on December 05, 2014, 07:14:36 pm
Aerokits Sea Queen!
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Post by: MadMax on December 05, 2014, 08:34:04 pm
Aerokits Sea Queen!
they were expenable mtbs
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Post by: Landlocked on December 07, 2014, 02:02:06 am
The Poirot TV episode previously mention is the "Veiled Lady" from series 2.  Several shots to include Capt Hastings carrying a very large model.  All appear to be period correct free sailors (no vanes).


Landlocked 
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Post by: mickyrubble on December 07, 2014, 05:49:33 pm
There is a number off models in 'The Hunt for Red October'
 :-) :-)
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Post by: roycv on December 08, 2014, 12:17:49 pm
Hi with greatest respect I think the original thread is for actual models in films.  Not models filmed in place of full size ships / boats etc.
regards all,
Roy
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Post by: rsm on December 08, 2014, 03:55:40 pm
Watched the film "Battleship" at the weekend and there is a seen on board the USS Missouri where Liam Neeson is sat in front of a large ,and rather splendid, model of the ship.
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Post by: roycv on December 08, 2014, 04:54:41 pm
Hi I wish I had known Battleship was on! Missed it at the cinemas.
regards Roy
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Post by: Arrow5 on December 08, 2014, 05:50:32 pm
Sunday night`s finale of the three part ghost story on BBC "Remember Me" with Micheal Palin had nice scale model in a library ( I think) in one scene.
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Post by: TheLongBuild on December 08, 2014, 06:28:56 pm
Hi with greatest respect I think the original thread is for actual models in films.  Not models filmed in place of full size ships / boats etc.
regards all,
Roy
Nothing like diversification  %)
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Post by: grendel on December 08, 2014, 07:39:29 pm
The Tin Tin Film has several models of the same ship.
Grendel
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Post by: Mad Scientist on December 08, 2014, 10:49:12 pm
Here's something a bit different: a link which will take you to a time-lapse video of a LEGO containership build, set up to resemble a time-lapse video of a full- size ship build: http://gcaptain.com/watch-best-triple-e-lego-kit-construction-time-lapse-internet/

Tom
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Post by: mickyrubble on December 08, 2014, 11:17:27 pm
Hi with greatest respect I think the original thread is for actual models in films.  Not models fiilmed in place of full size ships / boats etc.
regards all,
Roy
There are 6 models are in Ryan's study and 1 more in the Admirals office.
 O0 O0 O0 O0
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Post by: unbuiltnautilus on December 09, 2014, 09:56:17 am
and very nice models they are too :-))
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Post by: Nemo on January 26, 2015, 10:32:21 pm
In Battlestar Galactica, Admiral William Adama is seen building an incredibly intricate model ship. During one scene, the actor proceeds to go off-script by smashing the model ship in a fit of rage. The only problem? The ship was an actual model ship on loan from a maritime museum. It was valued in the tens-of-thousands of dollars!

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Post by: Martin (Admin) on January 27, 2015, 02:24:55 am
 
   :o  Opps!
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Post by: Nemo on February 06, 2015, 07:35:46 pm
John Ash in the Public Eye episode (TV) Ward of Court, broadcast 8th September 1971
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Post by: Nemo on February 06, 2015, 07:38:33 pm
I think this is a great scene!
Jon Whiteley admiring a model sailing ship in Hunted (filmed in 1951).

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Post by: Nemo on February 06, 2015, 07:45:33 pm
 :embarrassed: A scene from Carry on Girls (1973) in which 'Mayor Frederick Bumble' (Kenneth Connor) is taking a bath.

 ok2 If you are brave enough - you can watch it on this link from the 13 - 15 min mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z886x_-ipk   :}





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Post by: regiment on February 06, 2015, 07:50:25 pm
the pink submarine  on yesterday after noon
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Post by: Nemo on February 06, 2015, 07:51:27 pm
 A couple of scenes  from 'Albert, R.N.' a POW film of 1953.



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Post by: Nemo on February 06, 2015, 07:54:01 pm
From the 1989 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special - The Jolly Boys Outing where Uncle Albert manges to crash this model!!  %)
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Post by: Nemo on February 06, 2015, 07:56:08 pm
the pink submarine  on yesterday after noon

Where was the model?
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Post by: unbuiltnautilus on February 07, 2015, 09:13:53 am
I dont think everyone is up to date regarding the strict guidelines covering this thread :}
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Post by: TheLongBuild on February 07, 2015, 12:55:29 pm
I dont think everyone is up to date regarding the strict guidelines covering this thread :}

Threads are like conversations, you have cat in hells chance of keeping it to the guidelines, if you did the thread would become stale..

 Nothing like diversification  %)  8) 8)
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Post by: Nemo on February 09, 2015, 07:50:21 pm
Threads are like conversations, you have cat in hells chance of keeping it to the guidelines, if you did the thread would become stale..

 Nothing like diversification  %)  8) 8)

Like this post!  %)
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Post by: Nemo on February 09, 2015, 07:55:11 pm
Katherine Hepburn The Philidelphia Story 1941.

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Post by: roycv on February 10, 2015, 12:08:39 am
Now that was a very nice sailing boat not like the toy boat in High Society.
Roy
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Post by: imsinking on February 10, 2015, 01:04:04 am
Where was the model?
Quite valid, in the underwater shot's you can see the STRING they tow the sub' with , it's a standard shot for nearly every yank sub' film of that era. . . a bit like our MK2 (white) Jag going over a cliff in a car chase , in the gangster movies  %%
Bill
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Post by: Pete C on April 12, 2015, 11:43:28 am
One of Bernie Wood's subs appeared in the video for Bruce Dickinson's solo album "Tattooed Millionaire". (For the uninitiated, Bruce Dickinson is (was?) the singer in the rock band Iron Maiden)
he's also an airline pilot.....
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Post by: Mad Scientist on April 12, 2015, 09:54:28 pm
Bruce Dickinson: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-228-cameras-in-the-courtoom-bruce-dickinson-police-killings-and-illegal-download-notices-1.3026364/iron-maiden-s-frontman-on-the-future-of-zeppelin-s-1.3026367

Tom
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Post by: Nemo on July 06, 2015, 09:49:58 pm
Another one found!  Rogues' Yarn (1956).
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Post by: malcolmfrary on July 07, 2015, 09:34:17 am
Quite valid, in the underwater shot's you can see the STRING they tow the sub' with , it's a standard shot for nearly every yank sub' film of that era. . . a bit like our MK2 (white) Jag going over a cliff in a car chase , in the gangster movies  %%
Bill
....or the white Renault Dauphine in all of the ITC goodie/baddie serieses of the '50s (Saint, Baron etc).  It was always one when it left the cliff top, whatever it was before it went over.  Although it was sometimes a Ford Pop when it landed.
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Post by: Nemo on August 04, 2015, 09:19:21 pm
'THE KIDS WHO KNEW TOO MUCH' a Walt Disney film made in 1980.

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Post by: Nemo on August 04, 2015, 09:23:08 pm
Stay Lucky episode The Driving Instructor (1993), featuring a Model Ship (made of glass).
Also seen in the above screencap - Samantha Mansfield (Susan George) and Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman), also in the background - Alex (Dougray Scott) and Pippa O'Connor (Emma Wray).
Sadly, the Model Ship (made of glass) seen in the above screencap, was soon to be accidentally knocked over by Thomas (Dennis Waterman), fell to the floor, and was smashed into bits.
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Post by: Nemo on August 04, 2015, 09:26:46 pm
From 'Mary, Mungo and Midge' TV Series about 1969.  {-) Well, it is a model, a Star pond yacht I think.!
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Post by: Brian60 on August 29, 2015, 08:05:30 am
I'll stand to be corrected, but at 50" in length its a bit small to be used in movies, its usually 10ft as a minimum. Again, although the build quality is good, it would not stand up to being used as a movie prop.

This might help your search until someone else comes along with more info......

http://modelshipsinthecinema.com/ (http://modelshipsinthecinema.com/)

I can see a name on the starboard bow, try searching the movie site for it.

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Post by: Martin (Admin) on August 31, 2015, 06:58:49 am
 Hi Brian, I know your post seems a bit disjointed but I've split your post out of the "carpetbagger" trying to get a free valuation for his 'attic find' !   >:-o

Your post is better suited here..... interesting site!
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Post by: Brian60 on August 31, 2015, 08:55:35 am
No problem Martin. I thought there was something odd about the original post, nows I know :-))
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Post by: tony52 on August 31, 2015, 10:54:08 am
Buster- The story of the Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards. A model sailing ship appears in a couple of scenes. It can be seen in this youtube clip in the swimming pool (approx 5.50 into the clip).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMFCBxqxjP8
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Post by: red181 on September 01, 2015, 09:18:10 pm
Mr Bean, Rowan Atkinson at his best, with a model boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjPsaYMk83Y

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Post by: Martin (Admin) on September 18, 2015, 06:10:40 pm
 
The King of Burlesque.

https://youtu.be/NrGyNgtMs4k?t=18m40s

https://youtu.be/NrGyNgtMs4k?t=26m30s
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Post by: Nemo on September 23, 2015, 09:06:12 pm
Joe Melia and Tessa Wyatt in The Comedian's Graveyard (1969):
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Post by: rsm on September 23, 2015, 09:11:20 pm
Sweet November (2001) with Keanu Reeves has rc yachts and an rc submarine.
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Post by: Nemo on September 23, 2015, 09:21:17 pm
From a 'Groves Family' TV episode - It's a Great Day! back in 1955 !!
 
 
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Post by: tony52 on September 23, 2015, 10:24:36 pm
As Time Goes By ( with Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer) - 'Lionel's New Hobby' is building a model (airfix) ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDBWom3c2E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDBWom3c2E)
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Post by: Nemo on December 15, 2015, 10:09:29 pm
A few more offerings ..................

Wendy Hiller in 'Major Barbara' 1941
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Post by: Nemo on December 15, 2015, 10:12:04 pm
Francis De Wolff and David Knight.  In 'Clue of the twisted candle' 1960
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Post by: Nemo on December 15, 2015, 10:13:50 pm

A man who likes model boats can't be all bad. Master spy John Arnatt and minor spy Edward Ogden in Shadow of Fear (1963).


 
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Post by: Nemo on December 15, 2015, 10:15:57 pm
Elizabeth Finlay and boat in 'Shadow of the Stone' (1987
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Post by: joppyuk1 on December 22, 2015, 10:32:32 pm
I've just watched "We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story" on BBC2, and on the desk of one of the High-ups (Michael Mills, Head of Comedy)there is a model of what looks like an early 20th century cruiser, but though the ship is grey the four funnels are yellow. Pity I don't know how to do screen grabs so can't produce a picture.
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Post by: AlanT on December 23, 2015, 01:04:46 am
Steve Mcgarret's office in new version of Hawaii 5 O
Admaus Office in Battlestar Galactica
Richard Hammond in Top Gear Vietnam Special.


Alan
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Post by: Liverbudgie2 on December 23, 2015, 01:40:20 am
I've just watched "We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story" on BBC2, and on the desk of one of the High-ups (Michael Mills, Head of Comedy)there is a model of what looks like an early 20th century cruiser, but though the ship is grey the four funnels are yellow. Pity I don't know how to do screen grabs so can't produce a picture.

The model appears to be the Russian cruiser Varyag of 1899.

LB
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Post by: joppyuk1 on December 23, 2015, 08:15:45 am
Thank you. It was on so fleetingly every time, and so little to see, that I only recognised the type rather than the actual ship.
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Post by: boathound on December 24, 2015, 03:52:01 pm
Clint Eastwood film "In the Line of Fire"


The bad guy played by John Malkovich wants to test the plastic gun he has made to shoot the president so he shoots a radio controlled boat with it. Think it was an old Nikko "Caroline"




What I'd like to see made into the film would be the story of the Danish resistance's attempt to sink the German light cruiser Nurenberg in Copehagen harbor in  1945 with a radio controlled boat carrying explosives.
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Post by: Arrow5 on December 24, 2015, 10:32:12 pm

Quote
"What I'd like to see made into the film would be the story of the Danish resistance's attempt to sink the German light cruiser Nurenberg in Copehagen harbor in  1945 with a radio controlled boat carrying explosives."
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Carefull  you`ll get us all banned, look at what is happening with drones. >:-o      This was electro genius Tesla`s idea way back , various navys rejected the idea. O0
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Post by: PeachyPM on December 25, 2015, 12:12:40 am
Now then Gents, you like model boats in movies?
This beauty was from Enigma, I can't remember exactly her length but it was around 35' ! %%
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Post by: BFSMP on December 25, 2015, 12:51:47 pm
I couldn't ask a lady to come around and play with that submarine in my bath!
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Post by: PeachyPM on December 25, 2015, 12:53:18 pm
Yes, the bath tests weren't easy!
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Post by: malcolmfrary on December 25, 2015, 03:45:06 pm
I recall a large model Gato in the miniseries "War and Remembrance" in he late '80's, and an article on it in one of the model boat magazines at the time.
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Post by: Robotnik on January 04, 2016, 03:42:13 am
Grandpa in my pocket.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jfmv0/grandpa-in-my-pocket-series-1-21-something-to-treasure-forever (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jfmv0/grandpa-in-my-pocket-series-1-21-something-to-treasure-forever)

This might make you laugh if you ever watched a program from many years ago called 'When the boat comes in'.
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Post by: roycv on January 04, 2016, 08:58:09 am
Hi I think I am getting old, I quite enjoyed that!
Roy
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Post by: baloo on January 04, 2016, 09:11:52 am
In the 1970's the was a programme called "tugs"
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Post by: Nemo on January 04, 2016, 08:01:03 pm
From 'Tiger by the tail' (1954)
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Post by: tony52 on January 16, 2016, 09:42:49 pm
Hope it's ok to post TV programmes in this thread.

The Onedin Line - Series 3 episode 13 - approx. 4.55 into this youtube clip. Another model appears later, and in a series such as this there must be others.
Superb 1970s series this about a Liverpool shipping line, this is one period drama the Beeb could update and continue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RepVBrrlaD4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RepVBrrlaD4)
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Post by: Nemo on January 17, 2016, 10:59:57 am
From 'Tiger by the tail' (1954)

This appears to be the same ship, but this time in Impulse (1954)
I am sure this is a builders model. So far, I have been unable to identify the funnel 'house flag' or the vessel. Anyone?
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Post by: Nemo on January 17, 2016, 11:04:03 am
A wee Scottish laddie's boat that has to be rescued by a drunken Will Fyffe when he's in Rolling Home (1935)  Not what we would call a model but it was to the wee laddie! O0  Oldest one yet found.

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Post by: deadbeat on January 17, 2016, 12:54:02 pm
I'm sorry if this film has been mentioned before.

I have just watched a film called 'The Key' with Trevor Howard and William Holden its about WWII captains of ocean going tugs who were sent out to rescue damaged ships and bring them home. It is one of the few films representing the dangers experienced by tug boat personnel. As well as good footage of ocean going tugs, the action sequences uses models.

The film comes from the 50s and is in black and white.

An interesting film seen on the Movies4Men channel on Freeview, its bound to be on again, and again and again.
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Post by: BFSMP on January 17, 2016, 01:04:36 pm
This appears to be the same ship, but this time in Impulse (1954)
I am sure this is a builders model. So far, I have been unable to identify the funnel 'house flag' or the vessel. Anyone?

Although the funnel base is of a different colour, the House flag and upper funnel and the superstructures, positions of lifeboats and bridge and upper flying bridge are  an image of the SS Caledonian Monarch and Dominican Monarch,  model plans by Harold J Underhill. Built for the Monarch Steamship Company, Glasgow.

The Caledonian Monarch was lost to enemy submarine action in WW2.

Jim.
Title: Re: Films with Model Boats in them.
Post by: Nemo on January 17, 2016, 01:07:50 pm
There have been many films made using models of ships etc in the filming process to represent the action.
I believe this thread is to illustrate small ship models shown in the film but not used as 'props' in action shots.

The Key was a very good film. I remember the scene where the skipper orders a full helm, high speed turn (not usual in tug rescues I imagine!) and the resultant devastation below decks, that is, if I remember correctly.
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Post by: Nemo on January 23, 2016, 10:48:55 pm
From - Submarine X-1 (1968)

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Post by: Nellybob on January 24, 2016, 03:10:37 pm
Stuart Little, he takes part in a kids model yacht race.
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Post by: Nellybob on January 24, 2016, 03:19:27 pm
In the 1998 movie The Object of my Affection, it is while sitting on a bench overlooking the Pond that my girl Jen Aniston tells Paul Rudd that she is pregnant.
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Post by: Nellybob on January 24, 2016, 03:32:23 pm
Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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Post by: unbuiltnautilus on January 26, 2016, 09:45:46 am
In the 1998 movie The Object of my Affection, it is while sitting on a bench overlooking the Pond that my girl Jen Aniston tells Paul Rudd that she is pregnant.

Pretty sure that's George Peppard, he loves it when a plan comes together!
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Post by: Nellybob on January 26, 2016, 01:34:00 pm
So it is , I just lifted the quote and picture from a site, failed to notice th mistake, got the boat bit right though😜
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Post by: Netleyned on January 26, 2016, 01:55:19 pm
In the 1998 movie The Object of my Affection, it is while sitting on a bench overlooking the Pond that my girl Jen Aniston tells Paul Rudd that she is pregnant.


Not a whisper of wind on the water, but the model sails as if it has some wind?
Speshul fx  ;D


Ned
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Post by: Nemo on January 26, 2016, 07:42:56 pm
It IS Paul Rudd who starred in the film. Just looks like George Peppard in that still.  O0
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Post by: Nellybob on January 26, 2016, 08:09:47 pm
Now I need to clear things up, Paul Rudd is pictured in the same park pond as George Peppard is in, in Breakfast at Tiffanay's. The pond being in Central Park New York. The caption I put was with the wrong picture but both films have model yachts in them.
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Post by: Nemo on January 26, 2016, 08:17:38 pm
 :-))
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Post by: Nemo on March 12, 2016, 07:52:08 pm
From: The four just men', 1960 with Richard Conte.
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Post by: Nemo on March 12, 2016, 07:56:02 pm
From: 'The rough and the smooth'. 1959, with William Bendix.
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Post by: Nemo on April 23, 2016, 06:44:50 pm
From 'The Kids from 47A', in this scene, young Russell Lewis shows off his boats new sails. In the second picture, his father goes berserk when he finds out that the 'new sails' were made from his underpants!  {-)
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Post by: Nemo on April 23, 2016, 06:48:32 pm
Who can remember 'Man In a Suitcase', featuring Richard Bradford as 'McGill'?

That (presumably?) bone model would fetch tens of thousands now!
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Post by: Nemo on April 23, 2016, 06:53:26 pm
From 'Cape Fear' (1962), featuring Robert Mitchum as the creepy ex-con Max Cady and Gregory Peck as the tormented Sam Bowden.

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Post by: Nemo on April 23, 2016, 06:57:49 pm
From the classic children's drama serial The Box of Delights (1984).
In the second scene, the children use the magic box to enlarge their model (which has sails that look like old underpants!) to escape the clutches of their evil pursuers.  O0 
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Post by: BFSMP on April 23, 2016, 07:41:55 pm
Who can remember 'Man In a Suitcase', featuring Richard Bradford as 'McGill'?

That (presumably?) bone model would fetch tens of thousands now!

ONE of my favorite detective type shows.

The shrug of his shoulders and his "lazy" speech always said it all.

I can still hum and whistle the theme tune all the way through.

It was cult vueing even in its heyday.

Much missed.

Jim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk3WHOXzZE4
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Post by: nivapilot on April 23, 2016, 09:42:41 pm
There's a Riva on the window cill of Home Farm in Emerdale.
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Post by: Nemo on April 24, 2016, 07:28:24 pm
ONE of my favorite detective type shows.

The shrug of his shoulders and his "lazy" speech always said it all.

I can still hum and whistle the theme tune all the way through.

It was cult vueing even in its heyday.

Much missed.

Jim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk3WHOXzZE4

I watched most episodes and I loved the plots, but I could not suffer Bradford!! I hated the way he spoke.  >:-o
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Post by: Nemo on May 13, 2016, 08:05:25 pm
Some beauties here - and nice scrimshaw too! From 'Reap the wild wind' 1942.  John Wayne playing with a boat!

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Post by: Nemo on May 13, 2016, 08:12:21 pm
From the Bagpuss episode Ship in a Bottle (1974
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Post by: Nemo on May 13, 2016, 08:16:37 pm
Travel agent's model of P&O's ill-starred SS Iberia from Merton Park's The Scales of Justice: Episode 2 - A Woman's Privilege, starring Ann Lynn.:

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Post by: essex2visuvesi on May 13, 2016, 08:58:15 pm
Recent Episode of "The Blacklist"
(http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/Essex2Visuvesi/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-13%20at%2020.52.16.png) (http://s532.photobucket.com/user/Essex2Visuvesi/media/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-13%20at%2020.52.16.png.html)


Rather good TV show as it happens


The lead Character is seen to read a model boat magazine in an earlier episode as well
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on May 13, 2016, 09:37:04 pm
 
 Very observant!
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Post by: Nemo on May 18, 2016, 06:45:16 pm
Phil Collins playing the lead in 'Buster'. Here he is playing around in his pool to celebrate England winning the World Cup.
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Post by: Nemo on July 27, 2016, 08:02:18 pm
Yet another,  with David Janssen as 'The Fugitive' and the lovely Bethel Leslie who looks as if she had too much Scotch! (1964)
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Post by: Nemo on February 19, 2017, 06:34:33 pm
More movie models..............
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Post by: Nemo on February 19, 2017, 06:40:37 pm
..... and another................
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Post by: unbuiltnautilus on February 19, 2017, 07:12:38 pm
More movie models..............


The top one from the TV series UFO, the episode titled Destruction and features some decent shots of a RN County Class Destroyer, I know these things so others don't have to :embarrassed:
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Post by: Nemo on February 19, 2017, 10:07:09 pm
 Yet another, with Edmund Purdom working on his new Graupner 1647 edition of a Galleon - road-going version. In a scene from 'Sword of Freedom' 1957. {-)
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Post by: BFSMP on February 20, 2017, 04:10:05 pm

Who can remember 'Man In a Suitcase', featuring Richard Bradford as 'McGill'?

That (presumably?) bone model would fetch tens of thousands now!




Ohhh, I can remember it very well.


One of my favourite TV shows at the time.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk3WHOXzZE4




Jim.
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Post by: Ron Rees on February 21, 2017, 04:51:04 pm
In Captain and Commander, a crew member makes a model of a new shaped French Galleon that has been harrying them, The model is mainly frame but the captain spends some time discussing it. (Can't find then film clip!)


Ron.
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Post by: Nemo on February 24, 2017, 04:16:48 pm
Another model from 'Sword of Freedom'. The lad is Richard O'Sullivan.
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Post by: Nemo on July 07, 2017, 06:20:59 pm
'Time is My Enemy' 1954
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Post by: Nemo on July 07, 2017, 06:23:36 pm
Anne Baxter admires Walter Brown's futtock-shrouds in 'Mix Me a Person' (1962):
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Post by: Nemo on July 07, 2017, 06:27:09 pm
'Sons of the Sea'  (1939) Location - Dartmouth Naval Collage.
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Post by: Nemo on July 07, 2017, 06:29:28 pm
'Rhythm Serenade' (1943)
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Post by: John R Haynes on July 09, 2017, 03:10:13 pm
The 1/96  scale Missouri model that was in the Battleship film was built by me a while ago. The Museum people asked for a 1945 representative model of the Miss. taking the Jap surrender in Tokio Bay. After the War the Miss. topsides were altered so visitors [ I mil /year ] can see the ship as it was in '45. I also built them the 1908 first Miss. model also in the wardroom. I supply lots of US Companies and my large Carrier model Yorktown CV10 is in the Washington Naval Yard collection
johnrhaynes.com
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Post by: roycv on November 21, 2019, 12:55:59 pm
Hi all, we seem to have a mix on the thread of models used in films as against models seen in films.  I think it so nice to see a model ship or sailing boat in a film. Ism't there another thread on this forum on models seen in films?

I also look in the background of TV series like Flog It etc.  Mainly yachts I suppose as they stand out more.
regards
Roy
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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 21, 2019, 01:25:36 pm

Yes here! -
https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,49287.0.html   :-)
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Post by: tony52 on March 07, 2022, 11:01:37 am
Old interesting thread

1961 film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' starring Audrey Hepburn.


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Post by: Martin (Admin) on November 24, 2023, 10:40:07 am
 
Here's a pretty definitive list !


(https://i.postimg.cc/C5cvfb3Z/Ships-Banner1000.jpg)
 
 http://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/
 
 

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Post by: Colin Bishop on November 24, 2023, 12:26:56 pm
That  Battle in the Sea of Japan film looks well worth watching.
 I wonder if it is available anywhere?

Colin
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Post by: Circlip on November 26, 2023, 10:02:08 am
Errr wot's a Balite ?


 Regards  Ian.
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Post by: Backerther on November 26, 2023, 10:46:41 am
I suppose it might be the Battle of the Japan sea ( or the battle of Tsushima...)...???
If so,...
Highlight scenes of the sea battle by NHK pictures
Bing 動画 (https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e6%b5%b7%e6%b5%b7%e6%88%a6&&mid=D3AE70E25675C9AC9E47D3AE70E25675C9AC9E47&&FORM=VRDGAR)
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Post by: Colin Bishop on November 26, 2023, 10:56:26 am
Quote
Errr wot's a Balite ?

Sorry about that but with only one working eye it's too easy to hit the wrong keys. Usually I notice but not on this occasion. Lack of binocular vision makes model making twice as hard as it used to be but I persevere with a little help from my friend :((

Colin

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Post by: NickelBelter on November 27, 2023, 09:41:17 pm

Here's a pretty definitive list !


(https://i.postimg.cc/C5cvfb3Z/Ships-Banner1000.jpg)
 
 http://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/ (http://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/)

I noticed they don't have 'Ghost Ship' listed, a thoroughly forgettable movie but it sticks in my mind because the 'salvage tug' that finds the haunted liner is a Dumas Mr Darby.  Funny that the one chance a movie has to use both models and full-size ships and have them 100 percent accurate... and it's a B-movie about ghosts.
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Post by: roycv on November 27, 2023, 09:48:15 pm
Hi all, I was thinking this thread was about model boats/yachts seen as models in films. 
Rather than models representing full size ships in films.
Roy
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Post by: roycv on December 10, 2023, 12:30:50 pm
Not sure if this qualifies but has anyone seen the Dr. Hannah Fry series on TV, (now showing) The Secret Genius of modern life.  Excellent by the way!
In the one about Microwave cookers there is a long visit to the Chantry model boat club with boats running and a radar set up that sees or does not see a submarine go under. on the screen.
Regards
Roy