Topic starter
27/01/2007 10:54 pm
Anyone know what the sidewheel steamboat is that appears in the movie "The Yearling"? The movie starred Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman and was filmed in 1946. The setting is the Florida wilderness/Ocklawaha River area, but who knows where it was actually shot. The little steamboat looked to me like it might have been a sidewheel ferryboat, but if so, they would have built a boilerdeck over what would have been the cargo area at the bow.
28/01/2007 3:43 am
or what about the sternwheeler in the John Wayne Lauren Bacall movie, something about some Chinese refugees? I just saw a bit of that this afternoon. JW was the Captain and apparently he was taking a townful of persecuted people somewhere.
28/01/2007 4:03 pm
Blood Alley
The movie Judy is referring to is "Blood Alley" made in 1955.
Carmen
28/01/2007 7:24 pm
Big Bear Lake, CA
Barney, one of the know-it-all boys down at the shipyard says The Yearling was actually filmed in California at Big Bear Lake, East of Los Angeles.
Old Barn further added, "Big Bear Lake has a history with the movie industry that dates back almost as far as the inception of filmmaking itself. The great pioneers of film, D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, shot some of their most memorable films in Big Bear Lake. For more than eighty years, filmmakers have continued use Big Bear Lake to shoot their films against the area's breathtaking scenic backdrops."
Mr. Google has yet to turn up a pic of the boat used in the film.
http://www.citybigbearlake.com/bblfilm/filmog.html
Topic starter
29/01/2007 1:12 pm
Big Bear Lake must have been akin to the decorative lake in front of the Hollywood Golf Club -- which was used as the lagoon for all the "Gilligan's Island" productions...
The sidewheeler in The Yearling was definitely a steamboat, and she was 'scaping properly. The boat looked a bit rough and well used.
29/01/2007 1:57 pm
Hollywood....Hollywood
Reckon if H'wood can turn downtown Covington (KY) into Harlem, they can do about anything. As in Harlem Nights.
There's a copy of a cancelled check from Universal Studios, lying around here somewhere, that is all that remains of my brief Hollywood career when I was the Asst. to the Art Director on the TV special Centennial. Had a heck of a deal going until the director was hauled before the studio producers who promptly fired him for "spending too much." If things had gone as I'd engineered, the DUNCAN BRUCE would have been mine after the shooting. John Beatty stepped into my place after my patron was dumped, and as John and I were ‘tween speaking modes, I missed out on being with him, too.