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Behind-the-scenes footage of the reshoot of the squid sequence in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
A soundstage with a tank was built specifically for the movie. It was used for underwater miniature shots, but most importantly, this was where the famous squid sequence of the movie was filmed. Building the soundstage alone cost $300,000, but costs would continue to climb once the studio realized it would need to shoot the sequence all over again.
The screenwriter Earl Felton originally described the scene as such in his script: "THE NAUTILUS breaks the surface in the red after-glow of sunset, the ugly body of the squid silhouetted against the horizon, its long tentacles writhing."
Peter Ellenshaw, matte artist: I reckoned it would be very dramatic if--and I was doing sketches on the film quite a lot--that if we did a red, deep red sky, and the squid comes out of the water, it would be a wonderful effect. Well they tried it. They put on that kind of wishy washy sky, and it looked ridiculous.
Richard Fleischer, director: [The first squid] had all the tentacles, but the tentacles were held up by very heavy cables, which you couldn't avoid seeing... The cables would break, or great hunks of the material would come apart, come off. And the inside was stuffed with kapok, and it was absorbing the water, so it's getting heavier and heavier and getting less and less mobile, and it was just impossible. So I'm trying to shoot this thing, and I'm sick to my stomach looking at it because I know it's not working.
After seeing the dailies of the squid sequence, Walt talked with director Richard Fleischer, and they both agreed that it looked comical. Thus, Walt halted production while they thought of an alternate solution.
Fleischer: [Walt] said, "Start a dramatic sequence, and leave the squid sequence alone." He said, "I'll get together with my geniuses at Disneyland, and we'll come up with a squid that will do something for you. It'll be much better than this." ...My writer Earl Felton had seen the dailies too. And I said, "You know, Earl, what are we going to do with this thing? It doesn't work, even if we get a good squid." He said, "Well, look: everything's wrong with this sequence. This should be a sequence that takes place at night in a violent storm with lightning and thunder and wind, tremendous wind, waves smashing everything, so that it becomes not just a fight against the squid, but a fight against nature as well. You'll only see the squid really in flashes of lightning, and you won't see any flaws it may have." So I kissed his hand and ran out to find Walt, and I ran right into Walt on the studio street, and I said, "Walt, this is the new concept for the squid fight." And he listened, and he said, "You're absolutely right." He didn't hesitate a minute. "That's the way we'll do it, and you tell Earl to write that sequence."
The new squid was redesigned and remodeled by sculptor Chris Mueller (who sculpted a majority of the animals on Jungle Cruise). In his redesign, he tapered out the ends of the tentacles to allow them to stretch out to twice their length. He added a brow ridge to the squid to give it a more menacing look and rounded out + shortened the head.
The new mechanics were concepted and created by technical effects expert Bob Mattey (who made the animals on Jungle Cruise move and eventually would become well-known for creating the three animatronic sharks in the film Jaws). He created a spring device that made the tentacles light in weight and fluid in movement. It required 28 men to operate the squid, and they would use vacuum hoses to make the tentacles writhe, inflating them to make them curl and deflating them to uncurl them.
With the new stormy setting, it also required the addition of wind machines, dump tanks, wave makers, and reengineering the Nautilus so that it could lean during the storm.
Most of this reshoot was shot by second unit director Jim Havens (pictured in the first and eighth gifs; James Curtis Havens on IMDb), who already had previous experience shooting action sequences, including the underwater scenes in Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Needless to say, the reshoot practically flooded the soundstage. You can see in the last gif that the water spilled outside the soundstage as Walt, with rubber boots on, walks into the building.
The reshoot cost an additional $250,000, but with only half of the principal photography having been shot, the production was in danger of being shut down. The film had to start taking from funds intended for Disneyland.
Fleischer: They had to get in the bankers... They asked them to supply money to finish the picture, and the bankers wanted to see what had been shot up to date. And that was a big day for us. I was working on the set, waiting to hear word whether we're going to come back to work the next day or shut down that night. It was really that close. Word got back to me. They loved it. And they're giving him a million and a half dollars to finish the picture. That's our squid story. It was a real hair-raiser. A movie in itself.
quotes and footage from “The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” featurette
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#20000 leagues under the sea#disneyedit#richard fleischer#peter ellenshaw#earl felton#chris mueller#bob mattey#james havens#director#artist#writer#technician#my gif#i'm sorry in advance for how long this post is#but i think the info is all very interesting :)
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come back, come back to me
#james mcavoy#atonement#atonement 2007#seamus mcgarvey#joe wright#ian mcewan#english literature#historical drama#film stills#film edit#romanticism#film#cinematography#cinema#period drama#cuckmere haven#keira knightley
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Interviewer: Cats or James Po-
Regulus: Cats.
James: WHAT-
Interviewer: *chuckles* Alright, would you rather live in a Cat Haven or with James P-
Regulus: Cat Haven.
James, astonished:
Regulus:
James, shaking Regulus by the shoulders: WE’RE MARRIED- WE HAVE A KID TOGETHER-!!!
Regulus: Should’ve paid more attention to not almost slamming the car door on my fingers then.
#jegulus#james potter#regulus black#i mean who wouldn’t live in cat haven? sorry jamie#they’re definitely girl dads#petty regulus black#regulus black is a little shit#marauders#marauders era#the marauders#starchaser#sunseeker#cats or james potter?#Married James Potter and Regulus Black#married jegulus#jegulus parents
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they’re my favourite himbos!
#idiots (affectionate)#tom cruise#film#james marsden#movie#Roy miller#prince Edward#enchanted#enchanted (2007)#knight and day#knight and day (2010)#paul dano#james mangold#Simon feck#Cameron Diaz#june havens#Kevin lima#himbos#huntmavs edit
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Bonnie MacLean
"One of the GREAT Artists of the Psychedelic sixties left this worldly plane with the passing of Bonnie MacLean on February the 4th, 2020 in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
During the early days of the Fillmore, Bonnie was the most "present" member of the staff. She collected tickets, passed out handbills, blew up balloons and counted money for Fillmore productions. Impressed with her lettering skill on the upcoming attractions chalkboards, Bill Graham (who she later married 1967-1975), surprised her with an easel and art supplies for Christmas, 1967, and her poster artist career was launched. Untrained in graphic arts, her early style evolved into ornate, Medieval-Gothic designs. Faces in her posters wore trance-like stares, steady and serene, and evoke the detached spirituality of the sixties.
Bonnie continued creating artwork to the end.... She will certainly be remembered as one of the True Pioneers of our Psychedelic Poster past."
--Rusty Goldman
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yeah
#william james moriarty#makoto kagutsuchi#master detective archives: rain code#mdarc#master detective archives spoilers#mdarc spoilers#yuumori#yuukoku no moriarty#moriarty the patriot#haven art
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“what d’ya think?”
“i think we’re dead meat… real dead meat”
chainsaw roar
scream
“you’re dead meeeeeeeeeeeat!”
“go ahead and laugh, you guys… but if i ever find the lil bastards who did… they’re dead meat”
#WELCOME TO THE DEAD MEAT PODCAST YOUR HORROR SAFE HAVEN#i’ve been around since james and chelsea were just boyfriend and girlfriend who like to get scared together#i’ve been around since practical folks!! what yall know bout drunk dreamworks??#bex says#anyways lmao
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The Rose Haven Motor Hotel of Clarks Hill, Indiana, 1955. This motel still stands and operates as the Lincoln Lodge Motel, with much of its original interior intact. Source
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I am once again thankful for the community of Tumblr. We’re all weird, creative lil gremlins that have the silliest obsessions over side characters and movies that have been out for decades but we all vibe together and everyone GETS it. It’s beautiful and harmonious, a place for the weird, the wild, the freaks, the lovers, the nerds, the sillies to all co-exist. 💕
I’m saying this because today I rather sheepishly admitted to my siblings that I am, in fact, writing silly one shots of James Norrington and my OC together as a couple. And they LAUGHED.
The utter humiliation I felt, especially since online, especially here in the whimsical world of Tumblr, I felt seen and heard and validated. I’m just so confused on how anyone could see Norrington as anything less than a beautiful Shakespearean styled character??? He’s gorgeously well-written and I only recently appreciated that. Why would it be weird to want to write fanfics about him? Everyone should understand the appeal, even if he wasn’t your forte. But no. My oldest sister even went on to say “Norrington???” in the way most people say “eww.”
Needless to say, I wanted to cry and I came running to Tumblr. My safe haven. 😭💕✨
TLDR: Tumblr has the best, most accepting community for sillies like me and I appreciate it immensely.
#tumblr is the best#it’s a safe haven#cheers to the fangirls#cheers to the nerds#this is the place for us#nerd stuff#i love nerds#i love fandom#love y’all#you guys make me so happy#thank you for coming to my ted talk#i’m rambling again#sorry about that#nerd rant#james norrington#lostfairy text post
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Do you have any thoughts about Angelina Jolie and her brother? I mean, there are *LITERALLY* photos of them kissing in public, on purpose, for the cameras!! And to think that these kisses that are possibly a family thing are more than half fictional incest content in which barely flirts with the implicit and forces us to survive on crumbs 😭 (please add a photo them kissing if you can)
+ When she won the Oscar in 2000 she said she was "so in love with my brother right now." How can someone real have given so much content and not been ostracized or judged? (the biggest fear of those who ship incest). I feel like everyone just takes it as a joke or as something brotherly.
There's a small tag for them here.
Very affectionate siblings.
It's hard to know what to make of it.
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the leady ladies and guys in the nicolas sparks movies
ryan gosling and rachel mcadams in the notebook
Channing tatum and amanda seyfried in Dear John
Josh duhamel and Julianne hough in Safe Haven
James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan in the best of me
Benajamin Walker and Teresa Palmer in The Choice
#ryan gosling#rachel mcadams#the notebook#channing tatum#amanda seyfried#dear john#josh duhamel#julianne hough#safe haven#james marden#michelle monaghan#the best of me#benjamin walker#teresa palmer#the choice
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James Dexter Havens - Shadows (1938)
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Haven 5x20 Just Passing Through (2015)
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Haven’t posted here in a hot minute
Anyways here’s some art that I made for Transgender visibility day featuring the sillies of all time
#ocs#oc art#my ocs are my children#haven city#conniesart#transgender#enby#genderfluid#transgender visibility day#James Bright#Tori Sanchez#Itzel Salinas#I was gonna do some Easter art as well since Easter was on the same day but then I decided not to#oh well. next year I suppose lmao
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2000s au hits again. any yuumori fans
#kind of a doodle#didn't put too much effort into the bg#and the shading is simple enough#yuukoku no moriarty#moriarty the patriot#yuumori#sherliam#sherlock holmes#william james moriarty#2000s au#haven art
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Presenting Zayn Malik as Zayn Malik ( Aven’s Bodyguard)
On Duplicity reaching 100M reads and it being one of my comfort books, I’ll be making fanarts of Harry, Niall, Louis, Liam , Zayn AND Mariana (Aven) based on the book .
Also it’s like my first time drawing Zayn , because if u have been a follower, you’ll know that JUST yesterday ( 30th March) I found out that I was finally capable of drawing somewhat real faces after practising for almost two years.
To launch into the dangerous and intriguing world of Duplicity , click here
It's s written by the amazing Julez aka happydays1d on Wattpad
To launch into a blog that has One direction content which contains short fanfics , art and edits on each of the boys,and updates almost everyday, click here
#one direction#1d#1d source#1direction#1d fandom#1dsource#harry 1d#liam 1d#louis 1d#niall 1d#zayn 1d#harry styles#liam payne#louis tomlinson#niall horan#zayn malik#harry edward styles#niall james horan#liam james payne#louis william tomlinson#zayn javadd malik#one direction fanart#1d fanart#1d imagines#duplicity#haven#lads zayne#zayn malik fanart#harries#louis tommo
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