Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:02 PM 1999-02-20 -0300, Amilcar de Oliviera wrote: > I had a real laugh with the engine room scenes: everybody talks normally. A >real ship's engine room is *very* noisy and you have to yell at the top of your >lungs in order to be heard. My father was a chief engineer in the Brazillian >merchant marine and I recall he couldn't stop speaking very loud for half an >hour after coming off shift. His ears were numbed by the noise so he couldn't >control how loudly he spoke. > The engine room is also extremely hot, so you don't wear a jacket while >you're in, as the film's chief engineer does. Bringing this back to topic, the engine-room shots were made at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, in their Steam Engine room. The supervisor of this room is a member of our sister Rollei List and is a rather avid photographer. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!