Oh, come on. You can't just drop that here, kerplunk. Tell us. At least one story.
Terry
Pic credit (The Twilight Zone) in properties
*Sigh* Okay. The series began as a theatrical movie in 1960. The first model of the SEAVIEW was built as a 19 foot long , fully mechanized, motorized, remote control prop. It had working dive planes, working ballast tanks powered by CO2 cartridges that you use in BB guns, working rudder, propellers, etc. One periscope was actually the antenna for the remote. It fired a CO2 powered Polaris A-1 missile via a single working SLBM tube. The submarine cost something like $10,000 which could have paid for about two cars in 1960.
They lowered it into a ginormous tank of water left over from some earlier blockbuster seafaring movie, divers got it all set up, and the operator presses the "go" button...
.....The idjit sub promptly nosedives.
The divers reset, and the operator presses his little green button .....
.....The idjit submarine repeats nosedive.
Take #3. Reset . The guy presses green button.
Einstein was right. Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Well, it doesn't complete Einstein's UNIFIED FIELD THEORY, but atleast one of his works is verified.
They figure out that the way the bow was designed, water planed up over it, thus forcing the bow downwards, thus the nosedive.
Their mega expensive futuristic super sub was thus, ever after, like every other previous Hollywood prop sub in those WW2 movies, pulled along by wire.
The 19 foot model was retained and used for surface shots, where it worked better because models in film always look better with water the larger they are. The underwater models consisted of an 8 foot "hero" model, and a model that was maybe 15 or so inches long that was used both for long or wide angle shots, and as set dressing.
Okay?
