How times have changed....

[glenwolde]

I'm home alone today. My days of getting into trouble at times like this are long past. Let's see what's on the tube. I fire up Pluto and start scrolling.

I like Pluto. It's owned by Paramount and there's a boatload of content. Today's find: Sea Hunt. Yeah, kind of a favorite as a kid but I was a little young in its heyday. I can't say I've seen an episode in, well, decades.

So I start watching Season 2, Episode 35 "Ransom", on Pluto. Starts out with two plainclothes cops (one is the chief) are walking down a dock looking for Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) and they find his stuff, so they figure he's under water.

"I know how to get his attention". The Chief pulls his snubby and starts firing into the water! That'll do it! OMG how dangerous is that? Also, given how old this is (1959), special effects were limited. It was clearly live ammo. On a live location. Not blanks.

Fast forward to today and they have pretty much all stopped using live ammo because...well...you know. Maybe people just used to be smarter. I think the current problems are because they have too many people involved. The more people involved, the more errors. Just make one guy responsible. If the actor doesn't want to be responsible then don't shoot the movie. Or find another actor. Lord knows they get paid enough to take the time and trouble, and responsibility, to learn it. It ain't rocket surgery.

Sea Hunt was the beginning of the Bridges Family acting dynasty.

I should be day-drinking.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I should be day-drinking.

Livers can't tell time.

 

[Rudi]

In one of Cagney's films, they cut loose at him with live Thompson. He ducks back behind a wall as the slugs pulverize the corner.

 

[taz666]

I love chicken livers ... especially on top of mostaccioli marinara.

 

[rwsmith]

Sea Hunt....

I swam to reach my oxygen tanks...

they were empty.

I shot for the surface, risking the bends.

(breaks surface)

GAAA-A-A-AASSP!!!

I was lucky. That time.


Loved that show. The good guys wore white wet suits. The bad guys wore black. It was easy to tell the good from the bad in those days.

 

[boykinlp]

I'm home alone today. My days of getting into trouble at times like this are long past. Let's see what's on the tube. I fire up Pluto and start scrolling.

I like Pluto. It's owned by Paramount and there's a boatload of content. Today's find: Sea Hunt. Yeah, kind of a favorite as a kid but I was a little young in its heyday. I can't say I've seen an episode in, well, decades.

So I start watching Season 2, Episode 35 "Ransom", on Pluto. Starts out with two plainclothes cops (one is the chief) are walking down a dock looking for Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) and they find his stuff, so they figure he's under water.

"I know how to get his attention". The Chief pulls his snubby and starts firing into the water! That'll do it! OMG how dangerous is that? Also, given how old this is (1959), special effects were limited. It was clearly live ammo. On a live location. Not blanks.

Fast forward to today and they have pretty much all stopped using live ammo because...well...you know. Maybe people just used to be smarter. I think the current problems are because they have too many people involved. The more people involved, the more errors. Just make one guy responsible. If the actor doesn't want to be responsible then don't shoot the movie. Or find another actor. Lord knows they get paid enough to take the time and trouble, and responsibility, to learn it. It ain't rocket surgery.

Sea Hunt was the beginning of the Bridges Family acting dynasty.

I should be day-drinking.

I watched some videos about the “Rust” movie negligent discharge. It showed what the armorer had to do any time guns were being in a scene. It made me think back to old time westerns. There is no way all that has to be done today was done back then! If it was, a one hour show would take weeks to complete.
Larry

 

[glenwolde]

Livers can't tell time.

You make a valid point.

 

[s&wchad]

Livers can't tell time.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyCGws2r08[/ame]

 

[llowry61]

I watched some videos about the “Rust” movie negligent discharge. It showed what the armorer had to do any time guns were being in a scene. It made me think back to old time westerns. There is no way all that has to be done today was done back then! If it was, a one hour show would take weeks to complete.
Larry

My wife and I are watching the Rust trial on the Law & Crime channel (Dish). Pretty slow right at the moment, but it is interesting. Gloria Allred was interviewed, and she quoted some of the 10 Commandments of Gun Safety. Just didn't sound right coming out of her mouth.

I saw a few episodes of Sea Hunt, but I think they were re-runs. Didn't tickle my fancy for some odd reason.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

You mentioned episode 35 . Why is it they used to make almost a whole year of shows and now a season is 10-15 shows . Some shows on Netflix , their own shows , are only 8-10 episodes per season . I hate to sound like an old timer , remember when ? But come on , what is their reasoning ? By the time the next season starts , you can't remember what the show was about . Oh well , rant over ..........

 

[oldbrownhat]

In one of Cagney's films, they cut loose at him with live Thompson. He ducks back behind a wall as the slugs pulverize the corner.

I didn't know about that but I read somewhere that in some movie he very nearly got hit and he was instrumental in getting live ammo banned from movies. (???)

As to the Sea Hunt episode. I'd guess that the set was cleared and the only people within 100' were the two cops plus the cameraman and sound guy. And I bet the guy playing the chief was familiar with guns.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I watched some videos about the “Rust” movie negligent discharge. It showed what the armorer had to do any time guns were being in a scene. It made me think back to old time westerns. There is no way all that has to be done today was done back then! If it was, a one hour show would take weeks to complete.
Larry

At the time of the "Rust" shooting, I remember one of the Forum members said he worked as armed security on a Martin Scorsese (?) war movie and said that the armorers were "absolutely anal" about weapons handling, and there were no accidents.

 

[pasound]

Way back when (Sherman, set the WayBack Machine for...) actors were hired by season, and paid for that, 20 or even 35 episodes. They lived on the sets for months. Now in the day of agents and $100,000 per actor episode paydays, the show seasons are shorter.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I haven’t seen Sea Hunt since I was a little brat. When they got into underwater fights one would cut the other’s air hose. I think I remember spear guns being used also. Mike Nelson always had two air tanks.
When he was in one of those comedies, he was underwater and farted, then the bad guys on a boat all passed out & fell into the water. He played The President of America in that one, I think.