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Originally Posted by Beaudry
But as this forum is about architecture, and since I'm a picky SOB...no disrespect to the designers, whom I admire greatly, but I have to share a couple things I got a chuckle outta:
Manhattan, looking up...Broadway. So, I'm not trying to be bitchy, but come on. The Rialto marquee is at least five, probably ten years past 1931 and while I can't normally expect the production crew to know that, the Tower blade is outrageously sixties. Moreover, the Rialto marquee would have been advertising movies, not discount fashion as it has in its recent incarnation as a crap-o-mart...........................................
And then there's the alley by MP's restaurant gig in Hollywood,
which is a redressed street in Peerskill, NY (HBO has a bit about it here) with the mountains CGI'd in, the Broadway Hollywood neon in the bg, so, let's say we're on Selma west of Vine. We'd be looking right up at the reservoir (which, if I'm not mistaken, in 1931 would've had half a pile of dirt backfilled upon't). There are apparently no other buildings on Hollywood Blvd, except at far left, where the Title Guarantee has migrated from Fifth and Hill! Must be one of those earthquake things. |
i find it somehow amusing that they even went so far to include a semaphore traffic signal in that first screen cap. hey nothing says Los Angeles 1931 quite like a semaphore..........................but they forgot one dayum thing.......the semaphore.............................sheeeesh
also, if anyone on the production team had bothered to do even the meager-est of research, they would have found out that the building on the south/west corner of hollywood and vine in 1931, would not scream in neon the now all too familiar
Broadway Hollywood, it would actually say......................
Source:
USC Digital Archive
Dyas went under in 1932, and the sign was not changed until late 32, early 33.
oh, and what the hell is that structure that looks like a facade of the wtc just to the left of the seriously misplaced title guarantee building?
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sigh.............what we could create with 12 bucks a few crazies and a case of beer..................sigh.......)