Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcmp!rjn From: rjn@hpfcmp.UUCP (rjn) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <19000005@hpfcmp.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:23:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfcmp.19000005 Posted: Sun Jun 30 00:23:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:06:44 EDT References: <851@mtgzz.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:mtgzz:851:hpfcmp:19000005:37777777600:1090 Nf-From: hpfcmp!rjn Jun 29 20:23:00 1985 re: DAM BUSTERS ... and the local station nearly finished the job ... Our local cable outfit runs WOR and I also watched part of DB. I was wondering why it wasn't as good as I recalled from its original U.S. release. One thing about DB that really annoyed me was that they used new footage of real aircraft for the training scenes, original archival footage of the test drops, and models for the attack scenes - the WRONG models. One of the AVRO Lancasters that was shot down turns into a BOEING B-17 as it hits the trees! Considering that nearly everyone in the British Isles was familiar with aircraft identification, and DB is a British film, this was inexcusable. And moviemakers continue this silliness today. WarGames dispatched a flight of "F15s" to intercept the Alaskan radar contacts - and we cut to stock footage of F16s (or was it vice-versa). Whatever happened to continuity? Bob "there's a limit to my disbelief" Niland Hewlett-Packard hplabs!hpfcla!rjn Fort Collins CO 80525