I've used this clip from Catch-22 before, but you're not likely to see anything like it ever again.
Any similar scene nowadays would be made with CGI. And it would mean nothing. Who the hell wants to pay good money and go to a theater to see computer graphics?
Cat Pawtector!
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Who the hell wants to pay good money and go to a theater to see computer graphics?
Not us old farts who have flown and driven real machines, who have done real work and made real difference. But the young, for whom everything is virtual, why...that's reality, they hardly know anything else. It's all Game Over, Would you like to Play Again.
There were lots of stories around about the filming of this movie and this shot in particular. Frank Tallman ( who worked with Paul Mantz in a lot of hollywood flying scenes) did most of the choreography, and the list of pilots involved was a rogues gallery of warbird pilots in and around Southern California.
Reminders of a MITO exercise launch of B-52s and KC-135s. Been there, done that … and still have the “malfunction” nightmares !!!
Yep, filmed down in San Carlos, Mexico, just west of Guaymas. The runway is still there, but unused. And that was, at the time, the largest collection of B-25s since WWII.
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