![]() ![]() Mowder and some of the other Air Force guys had to pay a penalty for taking part in the movie. "On Tuesday we were sitting in the convoy in our woolen uniforms in 80-degree weather with the sun beating down on us and the director said, 'Look cold - this is supposed to be March of 1945.' So, we pulled our woolen caps a little further down, looked cold -and continued sweating." The most interesting part of the whole thing has been seeing how a movie is made," said Bill Mowder, who works in weapons standardization in the 10th Aircraft Generation Sq. "LIKE JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY else, this is the first time I've taken part in a movie. and didn't drop back there until after 9 p.m. Buses picked them up at the base at 6:30 a.m. The guys from Alconbury found out that days are long on a film set. Additionally, the film company fed them while they were on location. "We had the names of 100 people who wanted to be in the movie a half an hour after the paper came out, and the phones did not stop ringing for four days afterwards," said Al Eakle, a public affairs specialist and one of the lucky ones who got to work in the film.Īll the men (the film company had no need for American women extras) took part in the filming on their own time - either on days off or on leave - and were paid 50 pounds (about $67) per day for their presence. The response to the movie makers' ad was extraordinary. The movie's location manager contacted the public affairs office at RAF Alconbury, home of the 10th Tac Recon Wing, about 20 miles south of Stamford for assistance in getting American extras and were advised to place a want ad in the weekly base paper, The Photogram. ![]() The movie experts prefer Americans to play Americans because they say that they move and talk like the real thing, an effect that just doesn't work when they hire Englishmen to play GIs. THEY NEXT WERE FACED WITH the task of coming up with enough Americans to play the parts of U.S. They replaced the street signs with old-fashioned-looking ones in German, draped Nazi banners on the Town Hall, littered the streets with gutted tanks and overturned Jeeps, and methodically snipped off every rooftop TV antenna in sight. Transforming historically rich Stamford - a town filled with beautiful stone buildings and the first community in Britain to be designated as a "Conservation Area" by the government - into a battle-scarred German city came relatively easy to the experienced film makers. In a nutshell, the three hours' worth of scenes mostly revolve around the efforts of an American intelligence agent (Dern) to capture a leading German rocketeer (York) as battle rages in and around the German town of Wittenberg just before the war's end. THE SCENES BEING SHOT in England are concerned with efforts by the United States in the closing days of World War II to get its hands on some of Nazi Germany's rocket experts (the best in the world at that time) before Russia could grab them and put them to work on its own projects. ![]() Locations in the United States are being used to film later episodes that are concerned with the effort to get man into space. Production companies are at work simultaneously shooting the film in Stamford, England, and the United States. No one concerned with its production is saying just how much the film is budgeted for, but it's rumored S20 million will be spent on it before it's ready for broadcasting sometime late next spring.ĬBS has already bought the film from Paramount and plans to air its total of 13 hours in five episodes.Īside from a few well-known stars such as Bruce Dern, Michael York and James Garner, the film notably lacks big-name players. Paramount is shooting a big-budget, made-for-television movie based on James Michener's recent book Space, an account of America's leap into the cosmos, beginning with its early roots. ![]()
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