ya know, i never really liked the use of the minature sets and cars, etc. in the later seasons. i am sure it was probably due to budget reasons, as the Dukes Of Hazzard did the same thing in later seasons...
i was just curious if anyone here knew the "official" reason why they went to minatures and also if anyone cared to discuss their opinions/feelings on those certain scenes i know we KIIT fans can spot a mile away...
thanks for sharing...
Use of minature KIIT cars/sets in action scenes...
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Knight Rider used miniatures all along, in certain areas where they were not willing to lose a rather expensive Trans-Am, or in areas where KITT did things that no normal car couldn't really do without a miracle. In the modern day, we have replaced it with Computer Animation, but back then, and as it has been in a lot of action series, miniature models were the only real and feasible way to go.
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definately agree with you on your post...safety is first and foremost on any set. i guess im saying that they did not take much time to shoot those scenes in a convincing way. today's filmmaking also uses minature sets, etc... but they are shot with varying film rates and shutters to make the minature scene look more realistic, but of couse filmmaking has advanced since then. but still, those scenes were kinda painful to watch. being in the video/film industry kinda makes you aware of these subtle scenes.
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It's actually footage from an old movie called "The Car"Sith wrote:Trust Doesn't Rust: Is it me, or does that car that goes over the cliff (supposedly KARR) look nothing like a black Trans Am? lol
It has headlights for pity's sake!
Now THERE is something even more irritating than the slightly badly shot minature models...reused stock footage.
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Yeah it was a '57 chevy.Sith wrote:Trust Doesn't Rust: Is it me, or does that car that goes over the cliff (supposedly KARR) look nothing like a black Trans Am? lol
It has headlights for pity's sake!
The MAIN reason they used model cars in the Dukes in the later seasons was for the fact they had wrecked close to or over 300 '68-'69 Chargers for the show. The car was rare to begin with back then and Warner Brothers about put the poor car on the extinction list. I heard a while back that a guy found one of the first season Chargers from the Dukes in a junk yard in Georgia where the first season was filmed. The studio had filled the rear with concrete and the crusher couldn't do anything with it. They filled the back to ballance the car, since the engines were so big.
During my Dad's hunt to restore an old Dodge Muscle car he found some Chargers, but elected to restore a '73 Cuda and '72 Challenger. Granted they were in better shape than the Cuda he found, but they had been rigged with electric switches to start the car just like you would a NASCAR stock car.
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i honestly think the knight rider models were much better than the dukes of hazzard models, those sucked....
the only really cheesy models from KR i remember was in Kitt vs karr when kitt falls down and rolls over after supposedly blowing up karr and going through the wreckage, woops
in "knight of the phoenix" i swear i saw a wire hanging the trans am model when kitt jumps the semi
and in goliath, when kitt rolls over, the bottom of the car is clearly flat plastic and very bad
but as i said before, none of these are as bad as the dukes of hazzard models (i was and am still a dukes fan, i watched more dukes than kr groing up, but i think the special effects in kr were better)
the only really cheesy models from KR i remember was in Kitt vs karr when kitt falls down and rolls over after supposedly blowing up karr and going through the wreckage, woops
in "knight of the phoenix" i swear i saw a wire hanging the trans am model when kitt jumps the semi
and in goliath, when kitt rolls over, the bottom of the car is clearly flat plastic and very bad
but as i said before, none of these are as bad as the dukes of hazzard models (i was and am still a dukes fan, i watched more dukes than kr groing up, but i think the special effects in kr were better)
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it definetely looked like the TA was 'hanging" there when he was jumpin over the truck in the pilot. which is probably why they pulled the shot away so quickly.
i always found that sequence to be somewhat fishy but i couldn't put my finger on it...well done!
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i always found that sequence to be somewhat fishy but i couldn't put my finger on it...well done!
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That's odd . . . I don't remember KITT rolling over after blowing up KARR inpdennis93 wrote: the only really cheesy models from KR i remember was in Kitt vs karr
when kitt falls down and rolls over after supposedly blowing up karr
and going through the wreckage, woops . . .
that episode. IIRC, KITT just landed safely on the ground, the right way up.
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Play the footage back one frame at a time. During the collision and added explosion, you can clearly see kitt topple over and land inverted to the bottom left of your screen. You can actually see it playing normal if you look. One of many boo boo's they made during the shows run. If you wanna be really picky, you will notice KARR's nose is no longer two toned painted when the bumper is laying out in the debris either.
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Like knightimmortal said, it was footage from the movie "The Car" and it was definitely NOT a '57 Chevy, it was a modified 69-71 Lincoln Mark IIIDavid Whiteheart wrote:Yeah it was a '57 chevy.Sith wrote:Trust Doesn't Rust: Is it me, or does that car that goes over the cliff (supposedly KARR) look nothing like a black Trans Am? lol
It has headlights for pity's sake!
http://www.javelinamx.com/carstars/tvcar2.htm
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ah, so the dvd is out?? I might check into it cos i didn't mind the film. already own it on VHS.
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