Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.112] on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 22:53:16 :
In Reply to: The world is changing....... posted by gmharris [72.219.148.98] on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 21:45:28 :
In the final scene in High Noon, one of my favorite westerns, the camera rises up to show Gary Cooper all alone on the street, and in the background you see power lines a couple blocks away and lots of deciduous street trees. I tend to notice electrical stuff like modern transformers or switches in a pre-war setting. One of my favorite recent movies for historical equipment is There Will Be Blood, about the oil boom in West Texas around 1900. With the help of a museum, they did a good job of reconstructing two different old-style oil rigs, full scale, which was neat, but I noticed they used a modern shackle to hold the drill string (a spud drill), and when they used "dynamite" to extinguish the blow-out fire, the explosion was no where near what you'd get with the 4 or 5 cases of powder they loaded into the buggy. I will have to watch again to see if the set-builders used a nail gun on the oil rig. They were careful enough to get rough lumber sawn on a circular saw mill, so I have a hunch they did the nailing, at least in the visible parts, the old-fashioned way.
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