slaytonf Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Watching Woman Obsessed (1959, Susan Hayward) the other day on Fox Movie Channel, there was a forest fire at the start. Among the shots of animals fleeing in abject terror were those of a black bear, and a herd of deer. Those I remember from the hunting scene and the musical interlude in The Yearling. Only thing is, The Yearling was an MGM pic, Woman Obsessed was Fox. Now, tonite, watching Soylent Green, when Sol goes home at the end, what shows up at the start of the scenes of glorious nature but a herd of deer against the sky, straight from The Yearling again. At least Soylent is MGM. Am I going to start seeing this in all the movies I watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 In "War of The Worlds" (1953) there is a scene where walls are collapsing and most recognized is the entire wall on the right falling. That shot is from the 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius and is used in several other films. Here is one someone else found. Same scene but modified in "Transformers 3" (2011). gotta love those gifs. The History Channel documentary "Nazi Titanic" (2012) stated that several scenes were used in "A Night To Remember" (1958) taken from the German film. Here is one of them. Edited by: hamradio on Nov 20, 2013 2:48 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 The other night TCM showed a 1953 Charlton Heston movie, BAD FOR EACH OTHER. Near the end, there was a mining disaster in Heston's old hometown. You could clearly recognize footage from HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY used for the disaster scenes. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Selling footage from one movie to the makers of another has been going on for almost as long as movies have. Most studios maintain a "stock footage" department that helps producers find just what they're looking for. It's just more noticeable today because we have almost endless choices of films available to us. In the past, when people only saw them in theaters two films released 20 years apart could use the same footage and nobody would notice. Today, it's very possible both of them would be running back-to-back on TCM some night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 *Today, it's very possible both of them would be running back-to-back on TCM some night.* That's happened. A few years ago, TCM aired ATLANTIS THE LOST CONTINENT and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND back-to-back. Both featured the often seen footage of molten lava coming down a hillside. I've also seen that footage in TV shows. Most of the burning lab in GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN shows up in HOUSE OF DRACULA. The latter film features a hissing cat who was stock footage from WEREWOLF OF LONDON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 >That's happened. A few years ago, TCM aired ATLANTIS THE LOST CONTINENT and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND back-to-back. Both featured the often seen footage of molten lava coming down a hillside. I've also seen that footage in TV shows. I often get so many of these similar films mixed up, and there are many different versions of them: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, A dozen films with CAPTAIN NEMO, more films of people going to some lost Island or some mountain or hidden valley in South America that still has dinosaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 "Earth vs The flying Saucers" (1956) has a scene that is used in other films. It's really the mid air collision of 3 Curtiss RA-25A "Shrike" aircraft near Spokane, Washington, on July 23, 1944 during an airshow. The film was shot by the Paramount Pictures Newsreel crew attending the show. Use the Zoom in for better view. Film of the actual accident in 1944 http://www.budgetfilms.com/clip/16494/ "Earth vs The Flying Saucers" (1956) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1Nx6g7P64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I think that film clip of the crash was also used in the film 13 Rue Madeleine (1947), during the training of OSS agents. They were shown the film once, and then asked detailed questions about what they saw. See 2:40 into this film clip: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Yes that's it. I loved that training scene just before the crash. LOL, doing somersaults on the mattresses like a kid is OSS training? R. Lee Ermey would not approve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Hey, what about the bar where Burt Lancaster and Dorothy Maguire danced in tonight's Mr. 880? Is that the same one where Jimmy Stewart first sees Kim Novak in Vertigo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im4movies2 Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 The grand staircase used in the Great Zeigfeld was used again and again in several other musicals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 23, 2013 Author Share Posted November 23, 2013 That's not surprising. It must have been one damn expensive thing to build. MGM wanted to get it's money's worth out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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