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Started by Alex, February 11, 2009, 05:44:18 PM

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D-Dey65

Here's an off-color One Way sign in "Big Eyes."

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_807229-Hudson-1951.html

BTW, anybody know which model that Hudson is?



roadman

Quote from: texaskdog on March 04, 2015, 08:08:31 AM
21 Jump Street was filmed in New Orleans.  Funny in the big chase scene they filmed it on the LEFT bridge so you couldn't see the highway signs but it's very obvious they are on the bridge going the wrong way (along with the rest of the traffic).

The big freeway chase scene in To Live and Die in LA was similarly filmed "wrong way" on a closed freeway.
"And ninety-five is the route you were on.  It was not the speed limit sign."  - Jim Croce (from Speedball Tucker)

"My life has been a tapestry
Of years of roads and highway signs" (with apologies to Carole King and Tom Rush)

tcorlandoinsavannah

#402
The opening scene of "Lethal Weapon 3" used downtown Orlando as a Doppelganger for some part of L.A.  The producers incorporated the demolition of the old Orlando City Hall building into the movie.  The street scenes were filmed on the then SR 527 (Orange Ave.).  If you look very closely right after Riggs and Murtaugh decide to enter the building, you can see an illuminated overhead sign at the South St. intersection in the background.  Here's what the area looks like today (As of the latest GSV, anyway.  Apparently, they recently tore down the circular building on the east side of Orange Ave. :(  ):
LethalWeapon3

D-Dey65

A customized Stop Sign on the front end of a Pontiac in the 1949 movie "Border Incident."
http://www.imcdb.org/movie_41198-Border-Incident.html





gibranalnn

#404
Yet even more British-looking road signs in Total Recall (2012)








^ Again, from the B carriageway, my fav roadsigns on the movie :)













The roadsigns below showed up at the same scene, at the same time!


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The Nature Boy

I am watching "Funny Farm," which was filmed in Windsor County, Vermont, and I just spotted a Vermont Route 44 shield.

route17fan

Quote from: The Nature Boy on May 10, 2015, 09:46:44 PM
I am watching "Funny Farm," which was filmed in Windsor County, Vermont, and I just spotted a Vermont Route 44 shield.


I went looking for that shield when I was living in that part of the country and was unable to find it.  :-/
John Krakoff - Cleveland, Ohio

The Nature Boy

Quote from: route17fan on May 11, 2015, 11:06:40 AM
Quote from: The Nature Boy on May 10, 2015, 09:46:44 PM
I am watching "Funny Farm," which was filmed in Windsor County, Vermont, and I just spotted a Vermont Route 44 shield.


I went looking for that shield when I was living in that part of the country and was unable to find it.  :-/

You're not going to find it any more, at least in the way it looks in the film. Vermont has adopted a different state route shield in the years since the film was released.

D-Dey65


spooky

My wife simply rolled her eyes when I criticized the historical accuracy of the signs shown in Don's drive west on a recent episode of Mad Men. sorry, no screenshot.

mwb1848

#410
Here's a fictionalized US 54 sign from the trailer to the movie "The Counselor."

The movie featured many real-life landmarks from the El Paso-Juarez area. This sign, however, ain't one of 'em.



US-54 also makes a similar appearance in Brokeback Mountain -- a ground-mounted shield with a sign showing mileage to the border. I haven't been able to find a screenshot, though.

D-Dey65

#411
This is interesting; It's from the Law & Order; Special Victims Unit episode "Possessed."

Detective Benson is showing a copy of a self-published book on how a pervert (played by David Patrick Kelly) successfully kidnapped a little girl and used her in a series of kiddie porn videos in the 1990's. The cover has fake road signs, but the content is all text, and the bad guy of the week is going to try to say it's fiction and protected by the First Amendment.


gibranalnn

#412
Quote from: mwb1848 on May 12, 2015, 01:03:48 PM
Here's a fictionalized US 54 sign from the trailer to the movie "The Counselor."


Reasons this sign is fictional:
1. The MUTCD DOES NOT regulate this kind of exit sign.
2. The roadsign is signed in Frutiger.
3. Except in TX, US 54 is a conventional highway. NOT a freeway or expressway!
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Takumi

A bunch of fast-moving time-lapse shots in various cities are shown in this music video, including many barely-visible signs. The most visible ones (from Los Angeles, I believe) appear around the 3:25 mark.
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mwb1848

Quote from: gibranalnn on May 14, 2015, 10:44:14 PM
Quote from: mwb1848 on May 12, 2015, 01:03:48 PM
Reasons this sign is fictional:
1. The MUTCD DOES NOT regulate this kind of exit sign.
2. The roadsign is signed in Frutiger.
3. US 54 is a conventional highway. NOT a freeway or expressway!
US-54 is a freeway in Texas.

roadman65

I believe in all the Walker Texas Ranger episodes always used the Jefferson Viaduct in Dallas to film many chase scenes and shootouts.  You would always see Walker and his pick up have a shootout with another vehicle on a long viaduct in many episodes, where they would make the scene seem endless using the Flintstones effect.

The Flintstones effect is where something small on the outside that appears much bigger on the inside using the classic cartoon as precedent.  In many scenes crossing that particular bridge, the amount of time for the vehicles to cross it in the show was longer than the actual time it takes in real life to accomplish. 
Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

gibranalnn

Quote from: mwb1848 on May 16, 2015, 02:19:41 PM
Quote from: gibranalnn on May 14, 2015, 10:44:14 PM
Quote from: mwb1848 on May 12, 2015, 01:03:48 PM
Reasons this sign is fictional:
3. US 54 is a conventional highway. NOT a freeway or expressway!
US-54 is a freeway in Texas.

I just know that from you bro! I don't know that freeways could be a single-carriageway road!
Tokufan, mecha enthusiast, transport, architecture and cityplanning fan from Jakarta.

gibranalnn

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J N Winkler

I don't have the exact episode number or time reference, but in the second season of The Wire there is a scene where two Baltimore police detectives are returning from Philadelphia via I-95.  Their car is shown passing a two-line distance sign.  For purposes of filming, the producers had a fake of the real sign (generic sans-serif fonts instead of the actual Series E Modified) placed immediately adjacent to the shoulder edge, so it could be shown fully in the frame with the detectives' unmarked vehicle, but the left edge of the real sign--at the standard distance to keep the supports out of the clear zone--can be seen at the right edge of the frame.
"It is necessary to spend a hundred lire now to save a thousand lire later."--Piero Puricelli, explaining the need for a first-class road system to Benito Mussolini

SteveG1988

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tdindy88

That's not the Bob Cummings-Lincoln Trail Bridge.

The Nature Boy

And how would a northbound Indiana road be heading TOWARDS the Ohio River?

tdindy88

Strange as it may sound, I'm think there IS a SR 237 sign approaching the real bridge heading roughly north on the Kentucky side of the river, as the state owns the bridge. I think it says "Begin" however instead of north, likewise I think there's an end sign again on the Kentucky side. Alas, it really isn't flat at all in that area as depicted in the picture. 

roadman

Quote from: roadman65 on May 18, 2015, 03:04:49 AM
I believe in all the Walker Texas Ranger episodes always used the Jefferson Viaduct in Dallas to film many chase scenes and shootouts.  You would always see Walker and his pick up have a shootout with another vehicle on a long viaduct in many episodes, where they would make the scene seem endless using the Flintstones effect.

The Flintstones effect is where something small on the outside that appears much bigger on the inside using the classic cartoon as precedent.  In many scenes crossing that particular bridge, the amount of time for the vehicles to cross it in the show was longer than the actual time it takes in real life to accomplish. 
AKA the Hanna-Barbara effect, in which a short segment of background (be it outside scenery or an indoor hallway) is repeated over and over to give the illusion of much greater distances.  The use of this effect by H-B became a staple in thier cartoons, and actually predates the Flintstones, as variations of it appear in some early Tom and Jerry cartoons.
"And ninety-five is the route you were on.  It was not the speed limit sign."  - Jim Croce (from Speedball Tucker)

"My life has been a tapestry
Of years of roads and highway signs" (with apologies to Carole King and Tom Rush)

mapman1071

Quote from: tdindy88 on May 22, 2015, 08:54:14 AM
Strange as it may sound, I'm think there IS a SR 237 sign approaching the real bridge heading roughly north on the Kentucky side of the river, as the state owns the bridge. I think it says "Begin" however instead of north, likewise I think there's an end sign again on the Kentucky side. Alas, it really isn't flat at all in that area as depicted in the picture. 
Most of Blues Brothers 2000 was filmed in and around Toronto, ON. Just a few scenes were filmed in Chicago and in Louisiana



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