Things are looking ominous – When Bunz & Katz get Hungry, there’s No telling What they might do!! Warning! Keep your pets indoors at night – lock any extra Sandwiches in the Fridge and keep your Candy Bars in a safe place!!
Mmmmm… perhaps they would enjoy some cheese with that whine? Humpf, obviously got soft and slothful lazing about in a hibernation tube for a couple of millennia. TANSTAAFL baby! (Maybe Calsloth still has some openings in the pothole patching division.)
Well… Historically speaking – back in Neolithic into the Bronze Age or whereabouts, when the agricultural revolution was getting in gear – towns and cities would maintain large public granaries where Felines earned their keep by keeping the rodent population in check… However, since then, Moggies have been pretty much just Furry Freeloaders…
Whaddya mean, freeloaders? They are actually the ones who permit us to house and feed them… truly hath the Prophet said, “Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff…”
Not to change the topic or anything, but should anyone pause to wonder about the tatty grass and sky background in this strip, I could posit that there are many parks in LA where Bunz & Katz may be lazing about… The largest of which, Griffith Park, isn’t far from Hollywood and large enough to lose Luxembourg in! Even if you’ve never been to LA, You may have seen portions of Griffith Park – among locations seen in miscellaneous movies are the Observatory where parts of “Rebel without a cause” and “Flesh Gordon” were filmed… while in a remote corner to the west is Bronson Canyon, an old quarry, used as a location for bits of B-westerns and many TV shows, including a scene from John Ford’s “The Searchers” and also the the Exit for TV’s 66 Batcave…
I only mention this, as I’ve been inkin’ the next page and well, inking is NOT my favorite thing! As such, I’ll use almost any excuse for a break… Though (SFX: Deep Sigh, Groans and Rattle of Chains) Guess I’d best get back to it…
You see a lot of SoCal in the movies, from early Charlie Chaplin shorts to most recent outdoors sitcoms, and everywhere in between. Often the same locations, too. (I’ve been watching old episodes of “F Troop” lately—had no idea so many Civil War and Indian War battles were fought near Los Angeles.)
Tis true, up through the 60s, most of the “Wild West” as seen on TV and in the Movies, was shot on locations around Los Angeles – from Iverson Movie Ranch, to Coriganville, to the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine (Named for the Confederate Commerce Raider) Most large studios had at least one Western Street on their back lots, or if they didn’t there were one’s for rent… And why not the “Wild West?” In the 48 states there’s not much further West than Los Angeles!
These days, many studios have sold off their back lots, while brush fires claimed Corriganville and Melody Ranch, Iverson was sold off for condos – though Lone Pine is still there, but apparently not used much as a film location any longer…
It’s fascinating what you can sometimes find on line… After a bit of poking around, I found this note on the memory-alpha site: “The remains of the Cestus III outpost was actually a fort constructed for a film about the Alamo in the 1930s. It was believed to be unsafe and was demolished in the late 1960s. (Star Trek Encyclopedia)”
also: “For the 2006 “remastered” version of “Arena”, A new matte painting of the outpost was created, showing more damage and more detail in the surrounding terrain.”
While the rock outcroppings for this episode were filmed at the Vasquez Rocks, a large tilted formation not far north of Los Angeles… From their angle, it seems that portions of Southern Cal were once canted about 45 degrees off what it is now… somewhat worrisome to think about perhaps…
They say the guys who did “Ben Hur” (the 1950s version with Charlton Heston) destroyed their sets after use ’cause they knew every Italian sword-and-sandal epic would pass through them if they didn’t.
Now I’ve got to try and remember what films about the Alamo were made in the 1930s…
True, some sets had long careers, like the “Fort Apache” set, built at Corriganville for the John Ford movie, was used for years in other Movies and TV shows like “Rin Tin Tin”, until it was finally destroyed in the brush fire that also leveled their Western street…
Ford also donated the Tombstone Set, built out in Monument Vally for “My Darling Clementine” to the local tribes for rental to other film projects… Unfortunately for them, they reportedly found few takers…
Some sets live on in other ways, for RKO’s “Gunga Din”, filmed at Lone Pine, all the sets, by contract, had to be torn down after the filming – though the local ranchers salvaged the lumber and some of it was used to build a Hacienda set on the Anchor Ranch, which was used for years, appearing in numerous movies and occasionally reconfigured to look somewhat different… (You see it a lot in Hopalong Cassidy flix & other B-Westerns filmed in the area)…
One set that’s puzzled me over the years, is what movie was the Town Set of “Red Dog” used in? This was a western street built out at Lone Pine and then abandoned by whatever production company used it… It reportedly stood for many years in increasing decrepitude before being torn down… There’s still a road out by the Alabama hills named “Red Dog” after the set’s location…
Just a note: the film in question was NOT, “Rustlers of Red Dog” with Johnny Mack Brown – I already checked on that…
There also is or was a “Red Dog Saloon” at Pioneertown, a small town out in Yucca Valley, built as a permanent set for TV Westerns, but that’s completely different… (a Lot of the Cisco Kid TV show was filmed in and around Pioneertown)…
Speaking of the Alamo, for his version of the story (1960), John Wayne’s company built a full scale replica which is still standing and occasionally causing some confusion to tourists, some of whom visit the replica and go away thinking that they’ve been to the real Alamo… Interestingly enough, about the only historically accurate feature of that movie was the set…
I know it’s not the John Wayne Alamo set. (That’s in Texas.) But I can’t pinpoint the Alamo movie they have in mind. There was “Heroes of the Alamo,” 1937, but a skim through a print on YouTube revealed nothing that caught my eye. I also gather that reused footage from a 1920s silent, “Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo,” but I couldn’t find that on YouTube.
I gather you can still visit the site of Laurel and Hardy’s “The Music Box” somewhere in L. A., that it looks much the same.
Poking around, I found: The Fall of the Alamo (1935) – The Alamo (1936) & Heroes of the Alamo (1937)…
Do you mean the Stairs? I haven’t visited them, but reportedly they’re still there in Culver City – from photos, it seems that houses have since been built on either side…
Though the Hal Roach Studio is long gone, there’s said to be many locations that Stan & Ollie filmed at that’re still in existance… Like the house that they nearly destroyed in “Big Business”…
Vaguely still on topic…I’ve never been to L. A., but I’ve seen a fair number of familiar places pop up in movies, mostly relatively-famous places I’ve visited. For instance, in Romero’s “Day of the Dead,” some shots take place in the downtown main town of the county I live in—I even knew some of the zombies who wandered through it.
My mother tells me she saw some of the filming of a movie called “The Fugitive Kind” with Marlon Brando—supposed to be set somewhere in “The South” (it’s from a Tennessee Williams play), but actually filmed in (and looks like) Highland, New York. (My mother also saw Brando up close, and says he was even better looking in person than on the screen. Go figure.)
She’s a couple of scissor-snips away from wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes! Or considering her body type – auditioning for the part of Rae in a revival of Black Snake Moan.
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Things are looking ominous – When Bunz & Katz get Hungry, there’s No telling What they might do!! Warning! Keep your pets indoors at night – lock any extra Sandwiches in the Fridge and keep your Candy Bars in a safe place!!
Mmmmm… perhaps they would enjoy some cheese with that whine? Humpf, obviously got soft and slothful lazing about in a hibernation tube for a couple of millennia. TANSTAAFL baby! (Maybe Calsloth still has some openings in the pothole patching division.)
Have the dirt creatures any openings they might fit?
That’s the whole point of being a cat!
Well… Historically speaking – back in Neolithic into the Bronze Age or whereabouts, when the agricultural revolution was getting in gear – towns and cities would maintain large public granaries where Felines earned their keep by keeping the rodent population in check… However, since then, Moggies have been pretty much just Furry Freeloaders…
Whaddya mean, freeloaders? They are actually the ones who permit us to house and feed them… truly hath the Prophet said, “Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff…”
Not to change the topic or anything, but should anyone pause to wonder about the tatty grass and sky background in this strip, I could posit that there are many parks in LA where Bunz & Katz may be lazing about… The largest of which, Griffith Park, isn’t far from Hollywood and large enough to lose Luxembourg in! Even if you’ve never been to LA, You may have seen portions of Griffith Park – among locations seen in miscellaneous movies are the Observatory where parts of “Rebel without a cause” and “Flesh Gordon” were filmed… while in a remote corner to the west is Bronson Canyon, an old quarry, used as a location for bits of B-westerns and many TV shows, including a scene from John Ford’s “The Searchers” and also the the Exit for TV’s 66 Batcave…
I only mention this, as I’ve been inkin’ the next page and well, inking is NOT my favorite thing! As such, I’ll use almost any excuse for a break… Though (SFX: Deep Sigh, Groans and Rattle of Chains) Guess I’d best get back to it…
You see a lot of SoCal in the movies, from early Charlie Chaplin shorts to most recent outdoors sitcoms, and everywhere in between. Often the same locations, too. (I’ve been watching old episodes of “F Troop” lately—had no idea so many Civil War and Indian War battles were fought near Los Angeles.)
Tis true, up through the 60s, most of the “Wild West” as seen on TV and in the Movies, was shot on locations around Los Angeles – from Iverson Movie Ranch, to Coriganville, to the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine (Named for the Confederate Commerce Raider) Most large studios had at least one Western Street on their back lots, or if they didn’t there were one’s for rent… And why not the “Wild West?” In the 48 states there’s not much further West than Los Angeles!
These days, many studios have sold off their back lots, while brush fires claimed Corriganville and Melody Ranch, Iverson was sold off for condos – though Lone Pine is still there, but apparently not used much as a film location any longer…
It’s amusing to watch re-runs of old westerns and then re-runs of old Star Trek and see “Hollywood Rock” being used as a location for both of them.
I saw the Cestus Three base in an episode of “The Wild Wild West.” Got to wondering what movie they actually built it for…
It’s fascinating what you can sometimes find on line… After a bit of poking around, I found this note on the memory-alpha site: “The remains of the Cestus III outpost was actually a fort constructed for a film about the Alamo in the 1930s. It was believed to be unsafe and was demolished in the late 1960s. (Star Trek Encyclopedia)”
also: “For the 2006 “remastered” version of “Arena”, A new matte painting of the outpost was created, showing more damage and more detail in the surrounding terrain.”
While the rock outcroppings for this episode were filmed at the Vasquez Rocks, a large tilted formation not far north of Los Angeles… From their angle, it seems that portions of Southern Cal were once canted about 45 degrees off what it is now… somewhat worrisome to think about perhaps…
They say the guys who did “Ben Hur” (the 1950s version with Charlton Heston) destroyed their sets after use ’cause they knew every Italian sword-and-sandal epic would pass through them if they didn’t.
Now I’ve got to try and remember what films about the Alamo were made in the 1930s…
True, some sets had long careers, like the “Fort Apache” set, built at Corriganville for the John Ford movie, was used for years in other Movies and TV shows like “Rin Tin Tin”, until it was finally destroyed in the brush fire that also leveled their Western street…
Ford also donated the Tombstone Set, built out in Monument Vally for “My Darling Clementine” to the local tribes for rental to other film projects… Unfortunately for them, they reportedly found few takers…
Some sets live on in other ways, for RKO’s “Gunga Din”, filmed at Lone Pine, all the sets, by contract, had to be torn down after the filming – though the local ranchers salvaged the lumber and some of it was used to build a Hacienda set on the Anchor Ranch, which was used for years, appearing in numerous movies and occasionally reconfigured to look somewhat different… (You see it a lot in Hopalong Cassidy flix & other B-Westerns filmed in the area)…
One set that’s puzzled me over the years, is what movie was the Town Set of “Red Dog” used in? This was a western street built out at Lone Pine and then abandoned by whatever production company used it… It reportedly stood for many years in increasing decrepitude before being torn down… There’s still a road out by the Alabama hills named “Red Dog” after the set’s location…
Just a note: the film in question was NOT, “Rustlers of Red Dog” with Johnny Mack Brown – I already checked on that…
There also is or was a “Red Dog Saloon” at Pioneertown, a small town out in Yucca Valley, built as a permanent set for TV Westerns, but that’s completely different… (a Lot of the Cisco Kid TV show was filmed in and around Pioneertown)…
Speaking of the Alamo, for his version of the story (1960), John Wayne’s company built a full scale replica which is still standing and occasionally causing some confusion to tourists, some of whom visit the replica and go away thinking that they’ve been to the real Alamo… Interestingly enough, about the only historically accurate feature of that movie was the set…
I know it’s not the John Wayne Alamo set. (That’s in Texas.) But I can’t pinpoint the Alamo movie they have in mind. There was “Heroes of the Alamo,” 1937, but a skim through a print on YouTube revealed nothing that caught my eye. I also gather that reused footage from a 1920s silent, “Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo,” but I couldn’t find that on YouTube.
I gather you can still visit the site of Laurel and Hardy’s “The Music Box” somewhere in L. A., that it looks much the same.
Poking around, I found: The Fall of the Alamo (1935) – The Alamo (1936) & Heroes of the Alamo (1937)…
Do you mean the Stairs? I haven’t visited them, but reportedly they’re still there in Culver City – from photos, it seems that houses have since been built on either side…
Though the Hal Roach Studio is long gone, there’s said to be many locations that Stan & Ollie filmed at that’re still in existance… Like the house that they nearly destroyed in “Big Business”…
Vaguely still on topic…I’ve never been to L. A., but I’ve seen a fair number of familiar places pop up in movies, mostly relatively-famous places I’ve visited. For instance, in Romero’s “Day of the Dead,” some shots take place in the downtown main town of the county I live in—I even knew some of the zombies who wandered through it.
My mother tells me she saw some of the filming of a movie called “The Fugitive Kind” with Marlon Brando—supposed to be set somewhere in “The South” (it’s from a Tennessee Williams play), but actually filmed in (and looks like) Highland, New York. (My mother also saw Brando up close, and says he was even better looking in person than on the screen. Go figure.)
Humm, mis matched socks again!
It seems a continuing motif for Bunz – though the socks do match the lopsided aspects of her outfit…
She’s a couple of scissor-snips away from wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes! Or considering her body type – auditioning for the part of Rae in a revival of Black Snake Moan.