We went to the moving picture palace the other night to watch The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
It is, by the way, a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, both post-wartime London and the occupied Channel Islands are interestingly portrayed
In one scene a C-47 lands on a beach to pick up some passengers. Supposedly Guernsey, but possibly filmed in Devon or Cornwall.
As ever we sat through the credits as those who feel inclined to dash for the exit immediately the credits started to roll fought their way out (Why do they do that, what in their life is so important they can’t spend four or five minutes thinking quietly about what they have just seen? They don’t have to get out before the National Anthem any more for heaven’s sake)
Everyone got a credit, down to the chap who drove a luton van for the film crew.
Except the flight crew 😡
OK, it wasn’t exactly flying a Spitfire under a bridge, but it was a neat landing and take off away from an established airfield (Unless it was Barra, which I doubt). Mike Woodley is credited on IMDB as “Aerial Coordinator” but if that appeared on the rolling credits I missed it.
Made me really vexed.
Moggy
By: J Boyle - 27th May 2018 at 20:59
If they mention all the drivers who presumably don’t do anything on camera or more demanding than driving the director and cast to and from the set, then pilots whose work and skill actually appear on screen should be acknowledged.
It must depend on the producers…I recall various pilots (camera helicopter as well as ‘stunt’) being named in various productions.
By: Adrian Barrell - 27th May 2018 at 19:53
Contrast it with a cast and crew screening, everybody stays through the credits to see their name!
By: Moggy C - 27th May 2018 at 19:41
I wouldn’t suggest that SLF should get credit, but the pilots?
Moggy
By: ZRX61 - 27th May 2018 at 19:38
When they filmed MB at Dx they were looking for “faces to fill windows” & a bunch of volunteers got rides in the B17’s, sometimes quite a few rides. None got any credit, I don’t even recall them asking names. They just said “go over there & get kitted up”. I also recall that some people got the right hump about not getting rides. Some miserable duffer popped off at me one day in the canteen when I mentioned to someone else that I was going up again.
By: Moggy C - 27th May 2018 at 16:59
From that other thread
Would like to see a video of the Dakota taking off again from the beach
Best go see the movie then 😀
Moggy
By: Newforest - 27th May 2018 at 16:19
Thought the subject rang a bell! 😉
By: Meddle - 27th May 2018 at 14:46
Presumably a lot of the more niche credits (down to the drivers, etc) are listed due to the various Unions in place? I read an interview recently with a musician who turned up at a TV studio for a live broadcast. There was a spotlight sitting in the middle of the floor but nobody was allowed to move the light lest the union got wind of it, as moving the spotlight was the work solely of their man. Had anybody else moved the spotlight then everybody would have gone on strike.
My mother recalled a similar situation at the newspaper she worked at when she was a student. If a typesetter dropped anything on the floor then the union insisted that somebody else picked it up, as it was their job and their job alone. Again, strikes would be called if somebody simply picked up the dropped object. Likewise apparently they had old ‘hot metal’ typesetters working on more modern equipment, manually typing out about five words a minute!
By: Moggy C - 26th May 2018 at 15:07
You guess correctly. 🙂
Moggy
By: PeterW - 26th May 2018 at 14:24
I’m guessing this clip is from the filming.
By: David_Kavangh - 26th May 2018 at 12:20
The film “Memphis Belle”, when I saw it at the cinema had listed in the final credits the serial numbers, registrations and owners of the five B-17s used in the film. I noticed when this was last on TV, that bit had gone from the credits.
By: Maple 01 - 26th May 2018 at 11:53
I’ve just had a flash-back to that episode of Dad’s Army where Captain Mainwaring had a hissy-fit when the Warminster-on-Sea platoon rushed out of the cinema instead of standing for the National Anthem…….
Mind-you, we used to do that in the Astra and Jeboa cinemas in Berlin….. 🙂
By: Ant.H - 26th May 2018 at 11:43
The beach landing/take off scene is mentioned in this month’s Aeroplane, the captain of the Dak was Andrew Dixon (perhaps better known for displaying Sally B, the article is about him) and the aircraft was N147DC of Aces High. The location was apparently Saunton Sands, Devon.
I agree about film credits not being given a high enough priority, it’s even worse when a film gets to TV or some on-demand service, Netflix for example is pretty awful when it comes to minimizing the screen size when the credits roll and the next episode will often kick in before the credits have rolled for the last one. The people lower down the credits have very little chance of being appreciated.
By: RedRedWine - 26th May 2018 at 11:06
I support both of you in every way. The trivia of film credits is a joy, and locations can be a matter of great interest. I also agree that landing a C47 on a beach is probably more difficult and more creditable than painting the mattes. BTW I know it isn’t a “stunt” but could the pilot have been wrongly credited under either “stuntmen” or “drivers”?.
By: Bob - 26th May 2018 at 11:02
That’s why everyone rushes out – so they don’t spend precious time later pondering the imponderable… 😀
By: Robert Whitton - 26th May 2018 at 11:01
Sadly this happens everywhere. I feel the credits are an integral part of any film. Sometimes you get extra clips added during or after the credits perhaps showing the actors making errors or having a joke, and if a row of people in front of you have stood up they cant be seen. Part of selfish society, they glare at you if you dont get up to let them past.
Problems also happen with credits after films on TV. They either speed them past so fast you can’t read them, or even more annoyingly, they reduce them to a small box and advertise another programme.
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