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01-13-2015, 11:28 PM
I dusted off my old VHS copy of the 1961 Disaster Movie The Devil at 4 O'Clock to watch tonight, I spotted two bloopers in this movie, one at the beginning and one at the end.
The movie is about a Priest who runs a hospital treating children with Hanson's Disease (That's Leprosy for those of you in Rio Linda! :lol: ) on an Island in the Pacific Ocean. When a Island on the Volcano erupts the Priest and three Convicts (Who were en route to a Prison on Tahiti) rescue the staff and patients from impending doom.
And now the Bloopers:
1. A Deliberate Blooper (A scene in a movie that's done to give the movie a certain "feel" to it. In this case at the beginning of the movie you see the interior of a plane carrying another priest (Who's scheduled to replace the one played by Tracy) and the three convicts (One of which is played by Frank Sinatra). From a view from the planes cockpit you see the Island, a dot of land surrounded by water. When the plane lands, you can see other islands in the background (Parts of this movie were filmed on location in Hawaii (What a Waste of a Trip!) :lol: and you can see the slopes of Mauna Kea in the background, indicating the scene was filmed from Maui).
2. A Factual Error. (A scene that would NEVER happen in real life in this case an event that violates a law of physics). At the end of the movie the staff and patients board a schooner and sail away just before the Volcano explodes and wipes the island off the map. Lets say the boat was about five miles away when the big eruption begins. Never mind the tsunami that would certainly be generated (Since the boat is already in deep water they wouldn't notice the wave (Both the wave and the sound of the explosion would arrive at almost the same time). But there would be another event that would certainly toast them. Lets go back to August, 1883 to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. About 25 - 30 miles offshore was a rather insignificant island called Krakatoa. The islands volcano ripped itself apart in an eruption four times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens. :eek: Most of the 35,000 people who were killed when the Tsunami generated by the eruption slammed into Java and Sumatra, but they weren't the first to be killed. Volcanoes don't explode in the first phase of the eruption, there are several smaller eruptions before "The Big One" occurs. In the case of Krakatoa a pyroclastic flow generated from one such eruption traveled all the way to the coast of Sumatra, wiping a coastal village off the map before the one generating the tsunami did. Pyroclastic Flows happen when the weight of the column overwhelms the pressure of the eruption. What goes up must come down, and in this case when the ash cloud and debris hit the ground it spreads out at the speeds over 200 MPH, and they can spread for tens of miles. :eek: In this case as the volcano explodes it generates a column that goes into the stratosphere. Shortly thereafter the force of the volcano abates, and weight of the ash cloud can no longer keep it off the ground, and the massive cloud of hot ash and debris collapses and hits the surface, and less then two minutes later it hit would the boat. (My suggestion if you find yourself in such a situation is to bend over and stick your head between your legs, then kiss your @$$ goodbye!). :wave:
On the other hand if they were 50 or more miles away when the island blew they would have most likely survived, however as soon as they arrived at a distant shore, they'd most likely behold the site of a coastal city HAMMERED by the tsunami the eruption created. :omg:
OK my friends, let's see what bloopers you've noticed while watching a show. :D
The movie is about a Priest who runs a hospital treating children with Hanson's Disease (That's Leprosy for those of you in Rio Linda! :lol: ) on an Island in the Pacific Ocean. When a Island on the Volcano erupts the Priest and three Convicts (Who were en route to a Prison on Tahiti) rescue the staff and patients from impending doom.
And now the Bloopers:
1. A Deliberate Blooper (A scene in a movie that's done to give the movie a certain "feel" to it. In this case at the beginning of the movie you see the interior of a plane carrying another priest (Who's scheduled to replace the one played by Tracy) and the three convicts (One of which is played by Frank Sinatra). From a view from the planes cockpit you see the Island, a dot of land surrounded by water. When the plane lands, you can see other islands in the background (Parts of this movie were filmed on location in Hawaii (What a Waste of a Trip!) :lol: and you can see the slopes of Mauna Kea in the background, indicating the scene was filmed from Maui).
2. A Factual Error. (A scene that would NEVER happen in real life in this case an event that violates a law of physics). At the end of the movie the staff and patients board a schooner and sail away just before the Volcano explodes and wipes the island off the map. Lets say the boat was about five miles away when the big eruption begins. Never mind the tsunami that would certainly be generated (Since the boat is already in deep water they wouldn't notice the wave (Both the wave and the sound of the explosion would arrive at almost the same time). But there would be another event that would certainly toast them. Lets go back to August, 1883 to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. About 25 - 30 miles offshore was a rather insignificant island called Krakatoa. The islands volcano ripped itself apart in an eruption four times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens. :eek: Most of the 35,000 people who were killed when the Tsunami generated by the eruption slammed into Java and Sumatra, but they weren't the first to be killed. Volcanoes don't explode in the first phase of the eruption, there are several smaller eruptions before "The Big One" occurs. In the case of Krakatoa a pyroclastic flow generated from one such eruption traveled all the way to the coast of Sumatra, wiping a coastal village off the map before the one generating the tsunami did. Pyroclastic Flows happen when the weight of the column overwhelms the pressure of the eruption. What goes up must come down, and in this case when the ash cloud and debris hit the ground it spreads out at the speeds over 200 MPH, and they can spread for tens of miles. :eek: In this case as the volcano explodes it generates a column that goes into the stratosphere. Shortly thereafter the force of the volcano abates, and weight of the ash cloud can no longer keep it off the ground, and the massive cloud of hot ash and debris collapses and hits the surface, and less then two minutes later it hit would the boat. (My suggestion if you find yourself in such a situation is to bend over and stick your head between your legs, then kiss your @$$ goodbye!). :wave:
On the other hand if they were 50 or more miles away when the island blew they would have most likely survived, however as soon as they arrived at a distant shore, they'd most likely behold the site of a coastal city HAMMERED by the tsunami the eruption created. :omg:
OK my friends, let's see what bloopers you've noticed while watching a show. :D