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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 2, 2005 12:16:50 GMT 12
Can you remember any films or television (drama, not doco or news) that featured RNZAF aircraft in them? Adverts too if there are any.
I know of the film John O'Shea's 1952 film 'Broken Barrier' which features a Harvard and I think from memory an Auster which were based at Rotorua in those days as fire spotters in the Government forests.
Also the Disney film 'The Rescue' featured RNZAF Skyhawks and a Safe Air Bristol Freighter, plus Whenuapai from memory
The Warbirds Dakota in the excellent series of Eta Ripples chips (crisps) adverts
A Lockheed 12 is going to feature in King Kong too.
Any more?
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Post by Bruce on Apr 2, 2005 22:37:19 GMT 12
Cold water surf commercial in late 1980s featured Grumman Goose ZK-DFC (towing a line of washing) there was another ad for cool charm deodorant featuring Hal Griffins Grumman Ag Cat. (dropping a load of flowers) A similar commercial was made in the early 1990s using a Tiger Moth (ALH I think) which was owned the chief engineer of the company I was working for at the time. The Tiger was silver 1950s training scheme, but the script called for a red biplane, so the film company supplied a Geletin based clear coat that was supposed allow the temporary top coat to wash off. Although some washed off in the rain that the Tiger flew through on the way down to Queenstown from Ardmore, certainly the rest didnt want to budge when it got home after filming!. Other ads filmed using NZ aircraft are the Singaporean Tiger Beer ad filmed at Wigram featuring the Alpine fighter collection Corsair and Mustang ZK-TAF. The P51 wore a temporary Yellow coat which apparently came off far easier - possibly blocking the Radiator and causing cooling problems resulting in the aircraft being stuck at Dunedin en route to the Wanaka airshow. Honda had an ad for thier VTec engines featuring Wal Denholm (Aircraft engineer and part time actor - founding partner of Avspecs) and a Stearman based at Rotorua. The Warbirds collection also featured as a waypoint in "The Great Race" Reality TV game show a couple of years ago. The Catalina has featured in last years lotto ads - also filmed at Ardmore.
Thats a few that I know of - bound to be some more...
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Post by Bruce on Apr 2, 2005 22:38:48 GMT 12
Oh... forgot one more. "Carry me back" a 1980s comedy / adventure film featured a Fieldair Ag - Dak blasting over Wellington at low level.
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Post by turboNZ on Apr 2, 2005 23:06:57 GMT 12
and what about that terrible 80's/90's movie that featured a Frightner that deadsticked onto an aerodrome and a squadron of RNZAF A-4's flown by yank -speaking pilots... Can't quite remember the name of it (oh, what a shame...)
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 3, 2005 11:48:28 GMT 12
Chris, that is The Rescue, which I already mentioned. Made by Disney, the RNZAF Museum was gifted the Corsair as payment for the RNZAF's activities. Bruce - that's a lot of ads that you've remembered. Cool. I should have rememebred the Tiger Beer Commercial, I was in it!! And I was on the team that painted the Mustang! We never saw the final result but we heard it was really cool. See my photos of the paint job here forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23371&highlight=tiger+beer
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 4, 2005 0:14:55 GMT 12
I've remembered another one - back in 1990 for a couple of monhs before the Commonwealth Games in Auckland they screeened an excellent quite long advert. It was about the beginnings of the Games and set in WWI, where some British, Kiwi and Aussie troops are sitting in a trench and are bored, so they decide to have a race across no-man's land, round a pole and back.
It was a stunning dvert and featured a brillaint song which was rock music with bagpipes backing.
As they're crossing no-man's land a Fokker triplane swoops down and fires upon them. It must have been the then Ardmore based one (built by Stuart Tantrum?).
Anyone recall this? I wish i had that advert on tape.
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Post by turboNZ on Apr 4, 2005 0:34:49 GMT 12
Thanks Dave, that's the movie (I use the term loosely...)
There was a TV ad that ran a couple of years ago.
I think it was for a product called "Spitfire Engine Treatment" and it had a Spit doing aerobatics in the background.
IIRC the slogan went something like "We may not be able to make your car sound like one but we can make it go like one"....referring to the Spitfire..
Cheers Chris
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Post by Bruce on Apr 4, 2005 8:27:08 GMT 12
I remember the commonweath games ad with the Triplane, it was a good one. There is an ad forthe national bank which features a DHC Beaver in a Hangar and in flight. This has puzzled me for a while as I don't know of any Beavers in NZ flying in a white overall paint scheme. I suspect it may be using an overseas machine, and the flying shot may be computer altered (Most of this ad uses extensive CGI) I mentioned the Ad when I visited my bank to sort out some finance for my aeroplane, but aparently they dont do specific aircraft finance! (did mention some thing to the manager about misleading advertising, but I dont think anyone ever thought that people would actually want to borrow money against a 'plane). I also recall another ad in the 1990s using the Warbirds Beaver - I think it was for McDonalds and the Beaver had the Golden arches painted on the fuselage roundel - can't remember the exact product ... perhaps the McPlane burger?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 4, 2005 10:10:53 GMT 12
They've only recently started making McPlain burgers (all salad, no taste) - and ditched their best and healthiest burgers like the Kiwiburger, McFeast and MegaFeast. Idiots - do they really think people will go to Maccie D's for a salad? Oh dear, amazing what a little litigation and bad press can do.
Re the National Bank advert, I don't recall seeing that one either but I do know they are owned by Lloyds of London so it may be they use Lloyds adverts (who use the same horse symbol by the way) and simply change the text/voice overs on the adverts.
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Post by turboNZ on Apr 4, 2005 21:07:18 GMT 12
Does the Just Juice ad with the "wobbly" Twin-Pin count, or is that actually filmed in Jamaica ?
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Post by Bruce on Apr 4, 2005 21:20:04 GMT 12
The Just Juice Twin Pin is based at Coolangatta Queensland (there are two of them) where they are used for scenic flights - the colour scheme is what they normally wear!
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Post by turboNZ on Apr 4, 2005 22:18:56 GMT 12
;D that's Aussies for ya.....!!!
Thanks for the info, Bruce..
TNZ
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 4, 2005 23:50:08 GMT 12
Do you recall about the mid-1980's an advert for BP with an all-white C130 Hercules? It landed on a strip in a flat as desert. I was wondering if it were an RAAF one, perhaps in UN colours and thus easy to make all white, or was it from elsewhere? It looked like Aussie desert. Before the days of cgi too.
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Post by hairy on Apr 5, 2005 12:54:09 GMT 12
In the early to mid 90's the CAF Beech 18 was used in a television movie/drama set in WWII, for the life of me I cannot remember the title or what it was about.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 5, 2005 18:46:12 GMT 12
Hairy, could that have been the excellent film The Last Tattoo, starring Kerry Fox? She played a nurse in Wellington dealing with the problems the American troops were leaving all the young girls of the city, and she and an American officer got involved in rather a nasty murder investigation. Great film, but I can't recall if the Beech was in it. Sounds right though. They kitted Wellington city centre out like it was wartime again. It was partly true too. www.imdb.com/title/tt0110311/Failing that, there was an excellent series in about 1990 called that was set in the war when the US troops arrived in Auckland. It's about a boy in Henderson (filmed in Helensville) who has a black US soldier billeted with his family, and the friendship they develop. I'd love to see that again but can't recall the title. or another wartime production was the film Absent Without Leave, which I haven't seen www.imdb.com/title/tt0103612/Did any warbirds appear in the recently made film on Eisenhower, made in Auckland? I know local army re-enactors were used
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 17, 2005 14:51:35 GMT 12
I just watched the 1988 NZ film "Never Say Die" with Temuera Morrison (directed by Geoff Murphy).
The Grumman Goose ZK-DFC makes an appearance in its Seabee Air colours, flying to Waiheke Island.
Also spotted were and Air New Zealand 747, an Ansett New Zealand 737, and an Ansett NZ Dash 8.
Also there was some small twin commuter plane like a Piper or something, registration looked like ZK-JZA, or JZI - not sure as it was fleeting and the film was in LP so doesn't pause well. There was also a little bug type helicopter registered ZK-?OB (Hughes 300? I'm not good with civil helos). And a black Hughes 500 with a large red S which was registered ZK-HQB. There was also a Cessna of some sort (ZK-DFO) and a Squirrel helicopter in Police markings
All in all a pretty bad film, but lots of 1980's Kiwi aviation
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 2, 2005 22:27:59 GMT 12
Here are two obscure ones from 1975, found whilst trawling the Listener of that year for other reasons... Scribbles This show was described as "Entertainment and information for the six to nine year olds", and schools were encouraged to send in art, poems, stories and all sorts, including questions. Each week had a specific theme. On Tuesday the 16th of September 1975 the theme was Air Force. Presenter Cathie Harrop visited the RNZAF. It was a 35 minute show, so I wonder what was in it. I assume you went for a flight as a photo in the Listener shows her in flying overalls and standing in front of Harvard NZ1096, whilst it was still 'on duty'. The other one, maybe not so obscure but sadly forgotten by most... Richard Pearse A 55 minute dramatised account of the man himself. It starred Martyn Sanderson as Richard Pearce, Isa Moynahan as Sarah Pearse, Jim Facer as Diggory Pearce John Bach as Jack Pearce Allannah O'Sullivan as Rosie O'Shea Harold Pointer as Farrell O'Shea Mildred Woods as Mrs O'Shea Barry Empson as Jimmy Orr James Moynihan as James Orr David McPhail as Mad-John Judie Douglas as Mrs Bennett There is also a photo of Sanderson in the replica, as Pearce. This must be the drama in which the horse bolted and the replica took off (now in Motat) The caption to the photo reads as if they're proven Pearce beat the Wrights. The show's researcher was Maria Hill, writer Roger Simpson and Producer Peter Muxlow. The caption also mentioned Gordon Ogilvie's work trying to piece together the story. For the record, Sanderson played Pearce again much later, in the Radio play "Jean and Richard" This was a play about Jean Batten and Richard Pearse. Commissioned for radio production, this fantasy is about two of New Zealand's more colourful and controversial characters who were obsessed with flying. Mervyn Thompson wrote the play and it was produced by Stephen Tozer, for the Concert Programme. Ian Gordon was the Technical Director. Liddy Holloway as Jean Batten and Martyn Sanderson as Richard Pearse Source here www.soundarchives.co.nz/search/Search-Details.asp?currentpage=1&id=2638&more=adAnd I have heard it. Basically it's a conversation heard between the two when Jean dies and arrives in heaven, and is met by Richard. They discuss early NZ flying, how the public treated them and much more. A good play. I wish I'd recorded it.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 15, 2006 22:42:28 GMT 12
I am just watching the repeat of the 1995 mini-series "Falout" about the 1984 Labour Government's struggle with the nuclear issue. One of the RNZAF's Boeing B.727's appears briefly.
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Post by Bruce on Jan 16, 2006 7:33:10 GMT 12
I saw the film about Eisenhower on DVD over the holidays. "Ike" starred Tom Selleck in the Title role with Ian Mune as Churchill and John Bach as Trafford Leigh Mallory. It looked at Ike's rolein the D Day invasion planning. Wasnt too bad but seemed to be filmed on very limited locations which slows the plot down a bit. it did however show the warbirds DC3 and Ardmore airfield, unfortunately US paratroops loading into a sole British Dak looked a little odd. The scene was filmed outside the former Gulf Aeronautic Hangar where I used to work. Worth watching, but dont be too critical on the fine detail.....
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Post by steve on Jan 16, 2006 22:42:13 GMT 12
Ike: Bruce..I watched the same dvd a couple of times...not bad as you say...I was there at ardmore watching some of the filming...i think they hired the reinactment brigade....I wonder if US airborne troops flew in some RAF c47s...maybe? Out of interest... a lot of the film was filmed in Hillsborough Akl at my old school ..Monte Cecelia...the grand old mansion
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