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Post subject: Big universal studios conflagration
 Posted: Jun 01, 2008 - 03:12 PM
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| A big fire, one soundstage gone. |
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Post subject: Re: Big universal studios conflagration
Posted: Jun 01, 2008 - 10:36 PM
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| morgram wrote: | | A big fire, one soundstage gone. |
Just heard about this. Seems to still be going on. Does anyone know how it happened? They said they were trying to save their film vaults. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 12:07 AM
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I don't know how it happened but I did hear that filming was going on when the fire started. The backlot streets of NY and New England are gone. I was out this afternoon in Burbank and traffic was all snarled and there was still big black billowing smoke coming from the fire.
I don't think anyone was hurt thankfully and I did hear that Universal Studios Theme Park was planning on opening today. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 12:57 AM
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Tha Back to the Future set has gone, that was used in so many films and series, Court house in Jordan for one.
At least I got to see them last October |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 02:10 AM
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| I just hope that everyone is OK and that noone got hurt. If need be, they can rebuild the sets and surely there must be more than one copy of their films somewhere. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 04:41 AM
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| The films lost were the video copies and there is a second off site archive of them all. Fortunatly the original films are uneffected. Poor King Kong is gone. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 01:34 PM
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| I saw this un the news last night. Is it bad I was relieved it wasn't Paramount? |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 01:38 PM
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| ASB wrote: | | The films lost were the video copies and there is a second off site archive of them all. Fortunatly the original films are uneffected. Poor King Kong is gone. |
Wouldn't that be something if the only copies ended up being the ones sitting on our home video shelves? "Public to the rescue!"
I think I read somewhere that some of the original films were getting brittle from age and there was concern that they would just waste away. |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 01:47 PM
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| Was this the original King Kong? |
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Posted: Jun 02, 2008 - 04:01 PM
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| All the video reels that burned will now have have to be replicated. |
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Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 02:23 PM
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| Claudia wrote: | | Was this the original King Kong? |
I believe the one you saw on the tour was from the Jesica Lang movie but I could be wrong, either way its gone now |
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Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 03:12 PM
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| It all reminds me of when the Ford Rotunda burned down years ago. |
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