Subject: Re: Lathe Of Heaven

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack

In article <3D634BCC.3010904@socal.rr.com>, glassgnost
<dlindnerSPAMBLOCKED@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> nu-monet v5.0 wrote:
> > NeuroManson wrote:
> >
> >>However, believe it or not, it's an American
> >>adaptation (produced by PBS/WNET), filmed
> >>largely in Ft Worth/Dallas...
> >
> > I think I saw it, years ago, and remember wondering
> > where they did the futuristic architecture shots.
>
> Indeed it was. I smell a new Conspiracy Theory brewing...
>> http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue162/interview.html

In the early 70s, Dallas was the most futuristic looking of American
cities. Now, of course, those glass buildings are about as radical as
tattoos. But it was good for this version of Lathe of Heaven and for
Logan's Run, which also used certain now-corny Dallas mall interiors.
(For that matter, so did Mars Needs Women and Journey to the Center of
Time.)

I remember seeing Lathe of Heaven on TV the year it came out and seeing
that the Dallas City Hall had been turned into a post-holocaust Omega
Man type of set by the removal of one thing -- the poebuckers -- and
the addition of only two things in the foreground:

a section of crumpled chain-link fence

and

crumpled newspapers blowing by.

"Trash Blowing By" has got to be the CHEAPEST cinematic shorthand for
"End of the World" that a low budget director can use, praise "Bob".

I've rented this version of Lathe of Heaven at Blockbusters.
Alt.binaries.slack doesn't need 650 mb posts of stuff that's so readily
available, when there are so many newsgroups dedicated strictly to
reposts of old sf movies.

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Subject: Re: Lathe Of Heaven
From: "NeuroManson" <moc.ibtta@dogegoops>

Hey, it was produced by a Noo Yawk PBS station at a time when NYC was
entrenched (literally) by a sanitation dept garbage strike... 20' mountains
of trash... A few bits blowing around to a Noo Yawker at the time would
definately constitute the end of the world...

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