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Lost In Space (1965)
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Bud Brewster
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Although studios do maintain storage facilities for props they hang onto and reused, we also know that they sometimes trash props we dearly wish they would preserve and protect. Sad

With that in mind, it's conceivable that people working in a studio's prop department might pass on unwanted props to colleagues in the prop department of other studios.

But that's just speculation on my part.

However, we do know of one very famous prop that was used in everything from the Mandrake the Magician serial in 1939 all the up to the 1960s in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — with Forbidden Planet, Earth vs the Flying Saucers, Science Fiction Theater, and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein in between!


The Gizmo!

Mandrake the Magician and Earth vs the Flying Saucers are both by Columbia pictures.

Forbidden Planet and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. are by MGM

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein is by American International Pictures.

Science Fiction Theatre is a syndicated series from Ivan Tors Productions.

My point, of course, is that we know of a few props like the Gizmo which don't seem to be owned by any one studio — or the studios rent-or-loan-out these things from time to time.

And it still drives me crazy that we don't know who designed and built the Gizmo — and who owned it all those years it was passed around — and where it eventually ended up! Shocked














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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree Bud, I'd love to know who constructed some of these terrific looking props for film and television.

"The Ray is For Killing" is an episode of The Green Hornet (1966~'67) TV show. In it the villains possess a ray gun and the design was kinda cool.

I posted on TGH FB site if anyone knows its origin at all?

So far no answers.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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What does TGH FB stand for? Very Happy

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
What does TGH FB stand for? Very Happy

Just guessing, but probably The Green Hornet Face Book page.

One thing to consider, is that studios didn't want to store them anymore, they would often sell off costumes and props to companies that rent props to the studios and independents. I believe that is what happened to all the computer and electronic panels that Fox used in so many movies and TV shows, they still turn up in productions.

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Well heck, now it seems obvious! Embarassed

Thanks.


Krel wrote:
One thing to consider, is that studios didn't want to store them anymore, they would often sell off costumes and props to companies that rent props to the studios and independents. I believe that is what happened to all the computer and electronic panels that Fox used in so many movie's and TV shows, they still turn up in productions.

Ah-ha! That makes perfect sense. That sort of thing probably happened well back into Hollywood history too, when small production companies and studios went bankrupt.

I found the Green Hornet episode on YouTube and made two screen shots of the gun. Pow is right! A good design, and some nice FX, too.







Here's the episode. The screen shots were made at about the 9:40 mark.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A version of this gun was also used in The Three stooges In Orbit (1962)!

See: http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/monsterkid5/stooges3.html

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Lost In Space First Season Color Pictures (in no particular order).

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Smith was added later and his "icon" was white in the 1st season and green in a pale yellow spaceship in the 2nd season.













Just for fun. Called an Aloid, could this be a Krell?







Some things a robot must do:



Sisters:































Relative sizes of the Gemini 12 & Jupiter II:





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Ckose-up of the astrogator's 'spin' mechanism raised to the ship's upper dome in the filming miniature:



I prefer the brightness of the '1 Inch master' and the sharpnrss of the re-mastered BD:





"Ostrich" cut from series:





In the lower level plan there is a blank corredor where the acrors entered and left the set:



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Cover for the proposed 4th season opener:



2nd seson fan created Thanksgiving Day pic"



Tomorrow Other Lost In Space Shots!

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Some odd tidbits.

Irwin Allen wanted to film the first season in color, but the studio and network wouldn't pay for it. They compromised by filming the Chariot footage and JII crash in color. There were other JII scenes filmed that were never used in the show.

The corridor between the lab and galley was suppose to be how you accessed the landing leg stairs.

The Jupiter II had a bathroom, but the network wouldn't let them show it!

The control level set was made with an extending astrodome above the elevator for manual astrogation. It was to be accessed by the elevator. It was never used and was removed in the second season.

There is a hatch at the top of the ladder. You can sometimes see it open, but you don't see anything, just blackness.

There were slide-out control panels built into either side of the main port. They filmed scenes with them in at least one episode, but the scenes were never used, except in one quick cut. The panels were used as set dressing in some episodes, and in one episode were used as the crash doors when seen closing from the outside.

There was a ten food diameter Jupiter II miniature, which was thought to never have been used. People speculated that it was for miniature SPFX scenes showing the Chariot leaving the JII, which was never done. With the Blue Ray DVDs, people have seen the ten foot miniature in the episodes. It was used in forced perspective shots for distance scenes with the JII behind the actors. The most prominent use of the ten foot miniature was as an office building in the beginning of "City Beneath the Sea". The other JII miniatures were used as smaller office buildings, and as buildings in Pacifica.

The JII astrogator was gutted and used as the central building in Pacifica.

The LASER beam sound effect used in the Fox shows was a combination of two different sounds produced by an electric welding machine.

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Sorry about the duplicates (which Bud fixed)! It was because there were so many of them in Butch's archives (most of which are not shown).

The Missing Billy Mumy (pronounced "moo-me") logo:











The ship from 2004's The Robinsons: Lost In Space unsold TV pilot (a very nice design!):







A note about the spacesuits. The TV spacesuits were the thirf representation of skin tight suits:



The first was from Robert A, Heinlein's 1948 novel Red Planet:



The second was Klaatu's suit From The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951):





The third was on Star Trek TOS:



But now NASA is in final development of one created by engineer/scientist Deva Newman. You can stand (of course), sit and take the 'lotus' position and anything in between!:





It now comes with a detachable tether:



And is complete with built-in sanitary garments:





AND a specific 'unit' for us females (combined urinary & sanitary):



This is a vast improvement over the 1947 armored spacesuit:



or the 1955 armored spacesuit:



The rifle collection:



The weapons collection:



The roto jet box:



The Land of the Giants LASER pistol:



The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV LASER pistol:



They also used the LASER rifle from Fantastic Voyage (1966):





That's all for now!

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the Frog alien was called an Alfroid to be exact!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The laser rifles and pistols from Lost In Space were pretty decent designs. LIS was never a fave show for me; too silly & campy for my tastes.

However, some of the props were sharp looking.
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First season was pretty good story wise, the second had a few classic shows but was for the most part silly. The third season tried to do more interesting sci-fi adventures for the Robinsons but soon found itself back with the goofy stuff!

I loved it never the less!
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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2019 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Netflix version of Lost in Space is wonderful. I'm looking forward to season two. My goodness, how times (and science fiction) has changed. Cool

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I'm not that much a fan of the new series, but I have watched it with my son and he prefers the original too!

Big news that Bill Mumy as Will Robinson is going to turn up in the second season later this year as well it seems...
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I wonder when the new season of the Netflix series will start. I think I'll rewatch the first season prior binge watching the second one. It's fantastic! Cool

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The "Land of the Giants" LASER was an altered LIS prop. It was used as an Alien rocket launcher, and a raygun. They took the coils off the side and gave it a new emitter. They later painted it silver and used it as a LASER cutter in "City Beneath the Sea".

In the 1960s, the skin-tight space suit that NASA was working on was called "a Space Activity Suit". NASA abandoned the project because the proper materials hadn't been developed yet.

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