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. 🙁
?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.)
That’s really cool, I love stuff like this. Movie making in the time before CGI, fabulous.
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.
You’re not kidding!
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
And it’s smooth too!
I LOVE this! Thank you for sharing.
That’s not how I pictured you, Squid.
It’s not how I pictured me either. Especially since I wasn’t there at the time.
I love how they used practical effects for the star wars mivies.
