We discussed this idea earlier in the year and boy am I on board. I worked as a motion picture projectionist while in High School as well as in College. Back then you ran 6 to 8 reels of 35MM film thru a Simplex carbon arc projector and watched for those cue marks every 20 minutes or so to make a seamless switch from one projector to another. I love good movies and the subjects are endless. Just think back to those films that either told a good story, retold historical events, had larger than life characters, scared the hell out of you, had a surprise ending, or made you cry. Planes, trains, automobiles, ships, monsters, space ships, or memorial characters the list is endless. Have to give some thought to my builds but I'm in.

Enough thinking, this 1964 film was one of the first movies featuring aircraft that was shot in color and Panavision. They actually came up with 10 Misquotes for the movie and had 5 that flew. Not a real RAF Squadron but this fictional story has some scenes based on actual missions flown by Mosquito Squadrons. Cliff Robinson owned and flew a Spitfire at the time they made this movie and wanted to fly one of the Misquito's. However, for insurance reasons he wasn't allowed.

Tom, like you I have movies running through my DNA. The wonder of film has, I think, been diluted for the generation coming through both because of CGI and the formulaic rubbish that gets made these days (@tcinla will no doubt agree). I’m hoping we get some memorable models in this group to reflect great memories that iModelers have gathered over the years in TV and Movies.

So pleased to have your support.

David

One of my favourite comedy movies is Ghostbusters ,childish I know but come on Sigourney Weaver in her prime is a thing to behold... and it's bloody funny as well, I think I've seen the car as a kit I'd like to come aboard with that, but is this like group build or an on going forum ?
N.

Neil, I’m with you on the Ghostbusters - although my tastes in regard to Sigourney roll more toward the first Alien movie...

This is now a formal Group Build so just open a new thread via the ‘iModeler at the Movies’
Group and off you go.

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@neil-foster

@tom-bebout Tom, yep - that does bring back memories! Matter of fact, one of my favorite "old dayz" memories is when I played Tinker Belle in the play "Peter Pan." No, I can't wear green & fly (no matter HOW much remembering I do) but I did use a carbon-arc spotlight, which has the same light source. The carbon arc lights could focus down to about an 8" (12 cm) circle. So here I stood, with that big, heavy, HOT, smoking light back end perched on my shoulder while I bounced around up & down, & side to side and all points in between, making that bright white circle flit around while someone else (a fellow female student said Tink's lines through the sound system. It was hard work ... but fun. Besides, since I was doing my job (lighting & sound) I was getting a whopping $1.25 per hour! (Minimum wage was $1.18 or $1.19 per hour so I was rolling in BIG Bucks!)

Congratulations on your 50the Anniversary! Billie & I will celebrate 32 in a few months. Where does the time go ... ?

Great choice, Tom. Loved the movie and I’m looking forward to seeing this develop. You are a star, Tom, and a gentleman.

@tom-bebout

"Marketing means you can indeed convince people that dog kibble is steak, you just have to make sure they never get any real steak to break the lie."

Want "steak?" Watch foreign films.

Here's a few:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_9th_Company ( 2005 - Probably, THE best war movie ever made. I was amazed at how it brought back so many memories of my Marine Corps enlistment, right down to the tragic drill instructor. During the film I kept thinking, "And this was the enemy we were supposed to kill? Hell, I have far more in common with this "enemy" than I ever had with the bastards creating and running these wars."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_of_a_Soldier (1959 - A tragic, anti-war film made amazingly enough during the peak of the Soviet era. The girl is a stunningly beautiful heart-breaker')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheThief(1997_film) ( A real gut-wrencher painting the reality of the Soviet era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka_Lemon (2003 - A film portraying the utter bleakness of the post Soviet Era.)

These are Russian films, but the French (Joyeux Noël), Japanese (notably Akira Kurosawa), German (Das Boot), Spanish, (Butterfly's Tongue) and other foreign film makers create equally splendid films.

I quit watching Hollywood's sickening media output over 25 years ago, especially Television. It wasn't until I found Netflix that I went back to watching any films at all.