Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

In the film version of Cluedo called CLUE in the US, you can clearly see the sound microphone appear in several shots.

In an early draft of RoboCop(1987)the fate of OCP executive Bob Morton(Miguel Ferrer)was very different to his demise in the final film.Robocop actually kills Morton by throwing him down several flights of stairs and then shooting him repeatedly after tracking him down though the Security Concepts project.

The sound effects of Robocop movements are actually sound effects of movements from a VHS Player.

Some facts from one of my favourite movies of all time - The Shining.


In order to appear as seething as his character Jack Torrance was required to be throughout the movie, Jack Nicholson ate nothing but cheese sandwiches for two weeks before starting production because he really, really hates cheese sandwiches. This might seem like an odd thing to do, but it clearly worked.



Easily the most iconic moment in The Shining is when Wendy locks herself in a bathroom and Jack starts hacking away at the door with an axe. Then, when he's created a big enough hole, he sticks his head in and cries "Here's Johnny!" The camera movements are so delicate, tracking the axe with extreme focus as it goes in and out of the door. It turns out this was acheived through a rigorous process of trial-and-error. According to Shelly Duvall, this scene was filmed over the course of three days and the crew went through 60 doors before finally getting all the shots they needed.



In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotel's exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. The Lodge's management asked for the room number to be changed so that guests wouldn't avoid Room 217. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. The website of The Timberline Lodge notes, "Curiously and somewhat ironically, room #217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline".

The sound of a door opening in Star Trek was nothing more complicated than pulling out a piece of card and sliding it back and forth from an envelope and then enhancing the sound.

Oliver Postgate, creator of The Clangers once revealed that the penny whistle 'talking' was real language and in one episode when Major Clanger's hangar doors for his rocket malfunctions, the whistles translate as "Oh sod it! The bloody thing's stuck again!"

Famous as the piano player at Rick's Café Américain, in Casablanca, Dooley Wilson, the actor who played Sam, was an experienced musician and bandleader—but not a piano player. He was a drummer, and mimed the piano playing. "As Time Goes By" was dubbed in later.

Remember the Wizard of Oz? That famous scene where Dorothy is running through the poppy field and then falls asleep but is saved by snowfall? The flakes of snow were actually asbestos-based flakes which at that time was in fact a popular Christmas decoration throughout the USA and Europe.

Ghostbusters was actually filmed twice one take with the name Ghostbusters and the other take with name Ghostbreakers as Filmnation owned the name Ghostbusters. The guy that ran Columbia Pictures was fired and he went to Universal Pictures who owned Filmnation and he let them use the name Ghostbusters, funny how things work out.

Most of lines in Ghostbusters by Bill Murray was improvised like the line “it’s true the guy has dick”.

Most of film was filmed in Los Angeles not New York.

Whilst being Mayor of London, Boris Johnson appeared in an episode of Eastenders, going into the Queen Vic pub and chatting to Peggy Mitchell(Barbara Windsor) and Robbie Williams managed to infiltrate the crowd in a scene in the market but blink and you'd miss him.