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what cars should i watch for to see vcca members cars and what time does movie come on i think it would be cool to see your own car in a movie how about somebody makeing a movie with notthing but vcca members cars in it that would be a good pr man o well anything possable wonder how many chevy are in movie

Valley of Light

Well, it's over in the East. Very, very enjoyable movie. I only could spot Ray's '41 very briefly in one of the early scenes. Saw quite a bit of a tan '38.

A very idyllic world is depicted. If I could move there, I think I would.....

Sorry to say I got only one quick peep of Rays grille.Was at the fishing contest.Saw the tail of a 1940 Chev coupe in the beginning.
Some rather unusual cars appeared.A 1937 and 1941 Willys (would have been unusual to see two Willys in one day in any town),a 1937 Plymouth pick=up (and a Dodge) and a 1946 and 1947 Ford wagon...would have been very unusual to see a 1947 Ford in 1946. :grin:
It began with a nice variety of cars but never progressed after that.

As we were warned, the floor must have been littered with out-takes.

I saw my 41 in only two scenes.

Lee Matthew's 37 made two scenes.

Did not catch Dave Newland's 38 anywhere.

One of our club members, Jake Rens, furnished all the John Deer tractors.

Cal Bisson's 1941 tan 4-door was exposed for about 3 seconds.

It is unbelievable the amount of film exposed on the cars and only a flash of them on the screen.

If you could keep your eyes off the cars, I thought the movie was excellent. Was very interesting to stand by and watch several of the scenes filmed and then see the finished product on the screen.

Was a lot of fun and would gladly do it again.

One little "flaw"....If this would have been in the South the dirt would have been red and the trees pines with very long trunks.

Post deleted by Bill Barker THis was an accidental REPEAT of the one above.

Another "little flaw" would be the transformers on the power poles.....they were new.

:) :grin:

The average person would not catch these little flaws.Other than not giving us a better look at the cars it really was not a bad movie.

I enjoyed all the cars, but the fake southern accents were a big distraction for an old boy raised in Tennessee, now living in NC. I've never heard anyone talk like that around here -- only in the movies.

Fishing for "breem"?? I know it's spelled bream, but it's pronounced "brim" down south. And it's not the "Cinch" River, but the Clinch River.

Of course, Hollywood think all Brits sound like Madonna.

All movies are filled with errors unless they have current themes. That is one of the reasons that I don't pay several bucks to see any of them. TV movies are ok as I don't feel that I have been taken.

Would have liked to have seen more vehicles in the movie...there were some things that didn't look like '46 in the film as noted by others...

Must be hard to make vehicles look correct for the year and use they are trying to pretend to be, also must be a lot more expensive to make things look used and a little abused because these were the best looking "working farm trucks" I have ever seen...my grandfather's farm truck sure wasn't that pretty after a couple of years on the farm and that first 'catfish' must have had a trout for a mother...dirt roads everywhere in the film and everyone's vehicle looked like a show car, except for the 'painter's' truck.

Maybe when they release the film to the DVD market they will include more scenes, "expanded version"...all of the movies seem to do that for the DVD market.

Thats one of my pet peeves--fake southern accents.

Now four of my grand kids have real southern accents, I know because I can't understand them :grin:

Nice thing about living in the mid-west....we don't have an accent

Actually, the further back in time a movie represents, the harder it is to get the landscape and surroundings accurate for the period. I remember back in 1972, when "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid" (starring Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall) was filmed locally in Jacksonville, Oregon. The film company had to do major revamping to bring the town back to the time setting in which the movie was to take place. However, Jacksonville is a town that was built in the early 1850's so its landscape was conducive for the period represented in the movie.

All of the modern improvements in town had to go away to make the movie fit the period and to make the backdrop more accurate. I was working in the small town at the time so I was privileged to see what work had to be done prior to shooting the movie.

The main street of town is actually a main highway, so all of the traffic had to be rerouted around the town instead of going through it. Once that was accomplished, many dump truck loads of dirt had to be brought in to cover main street. All of the power lines (and there were zillions of them) had to be dropped from the power poles and the power lines were laid on top of the concrete sidewalks in town. Then, the power lines and the concrete sidewalks had to be covered with new wooden sidewalks that were constructed to make the town look more like the time period. Next, all of the power poles that once contained the power lines that were now hidden under the new wooden sidewalks were pulled out of the ground and taken away.

All of the above took many days to do. Later, all of the storefront signs either had to be removed or covered up with new custom made storefront signs to make the town look more realistic. Also, the store windows had to be dressed up to represent the 1860's....hitching posts for horses had to be added to main street and the list goes on. The movie company spent a great deal of time and money to make the main street of Jacksonville as realistic as possible. Local collectors (as in the Valley of Light film) furnished the old buggies, farm equipment, relics, horses and the like.

The weather was another problem.....it rained during the first couple of days of shooting. Then the sun came out. To make all of the scenes flow since different shots of the same scene were filmed on different days, large overhead sprinklers had to be used to represent the rain on the days the sun was shining. Of course, the dirt street turned into a mud bath because of all of the rain and the "fake" rain introduced from the large overhead sprinklers.

Other problems existed as well......like airplanes flying overhead (they didn't have those in the 1860's), the noise from the big semi-trucks that were rerouted around the town on the side streets, and so on.

After the filming, the entire main street of town had to be put back as it was before......including resetting the power poles and etc.

Unfortunately, after all of this work and filming in town, when the movie was released later in the year it turned out to be a real dud!

:( :( :(

Probably because they didn't have any real Minnesotans in it and I'll leave out the nationallity.
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