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Luckiest Man in America release set (PYL movie)
tyshaun1:
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on March 13, 2025, 12:14:13 PM ---Looking forward to seeing this, and really hoping that the weird hallucination sequence involving a giant Whammy makes sense in context...
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Come to find out that the show actually did have a human size Whammy on set. It just never made an appearance on the show.
bscripps:
The TV production nerd in me is screaming about that show somehow being switched on a Grass Valley 100.
That, and the late 80's Panasonic, seen elsewhere in the trailer. But it does look fantastic--looking forward to seeing this.
mystery7:
--- Quote from: bscripps on March 14, 2025, 10:21:20 AM ---The TV production nerd in me is screaming about that show somehow being switched on a Grass Valley 100.
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Yeah, they were complaining about that a little on Eyes Of A Generation. Someone there also did a point-out on the RCA TK-47 cameras that should have been Hitachi SK-110s.
Chief-O:
--- Quote from: mystery7 on March 15, 2025, 07:43:24 PM ---Someone there also did a point-out on the RCA TK-47 cameras that should have been Hitachi SK-110s.
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Ope! I'm busted!
....though I doubt there's a single Hollywood prop house that has SK-110s. A larger switcher panel should've been easier to find though. Also, it seemed senseless to aim the applause sign *away* from the audience. (also, "boo" and "laugh" signs?????)
The set, though.........quite impressive for a movie reproduction.
I'll be hoping to see this at some point once it shows up in my neck of the woods. I'm sure the nerd side of me will manage to pipe down about the artistic license......
Bob Zager:
--- Quote from: Chief-O on March 15, 2025, 08:09:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: mystery7 on March 15, 2025, 07:43:24 PM ---Someone there also did a point-out on the RCA TK-47 cameras that should have been Hitachi SK-110s.
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...it seemed senseless to aim the applause sign *away* from the audience. (also, "boo" and "laugh" signs?????)...
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From the very first promotional picture of Paul Walter Hauser for the movie, I thought those signs were turned away from the audience, and it looks like that is right, and yes, senseless!
I've seen the trailer, and I think it will be enjoyable! I was wondering why there were pieces of what appeared to be thin metal extending up from the main contestant desk. Apparently, they were based on temporary props used on the actual show when they had the Home Viewer Game at the time, to hold the selected home viewers' postcards.
I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but back in 1984, I first found out about the episode, by reading a brief story in TV Guide magazine. Here in Detroit, our then CBS-TV affiliate, WJBK-TV (Ch. 2), had opted not to carry "$25,000 Pyramid," nor "Child's Play," (and later "PYL") from Sept. 1982 until Sept. 1984. I sometimes lucked out and watched on a Toledo, OH station, but often not in great quality. Around mid-September, 1984; WJBK-TV started the post-CBS Morning News hour with "All-New LMAD," followed by "Anything for Money." That was followed by network-fed "Pyramid," and "PYL."
Tomarken welcomed WJBK nationwide, and even brought up the then red-hot Detroit Tigers, who won the WS the following month!
FTR, WJBK switched to Fox Network affiliation in 1994, and WGPR (Ch. 62) became CBS affiliate, and eventually CBS bought the station and changed the call letters to WWJ-TV
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