James Silverton wrote:
> Hello, Hatunen!
> You wrote on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:39:45 -0700:
>
> ??>> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
> ??>> wrote in message news:ef13cm315a4@news2.newsguy.com...
> ??>>>
> ??>>> Snoopy wrote:
> ??>>>
> ??>>>> Cars are going to disappear from European cities
> ??>>>> and European countries. It's going to happen in NYC and
> ??>>>> California, too. San Francisco's done it.
> ??>>>
> ??>>> Which alternative universe do YOU live in? San Francisco
> ??>>> traffic is the same as ever - ask any of our posters who
> ??>>> live there.
> ??>>
> ??>> In the movie "Vertigo" there were a number of scenes of
> ??>> the characters driving around San Francisco. I knew that
> ??>> the movie was fiction because they always found a parking
> ??>> space. Someone made parallel pictures of the places, then
> ??>> and now. There are many more cars now.
> ??>>
> ??>> http://www.basichip.com/vertigo/main.htm
>
> H> Duh. The moviemakers just block off the whole street and all
> H> the traffic, pedestrian and vehicular, is basically done by
> H> extras so of course they have parking places. It's pretty
> H> rare for a producer to use "real" people for background.
>
> H> The San Francisco County Fair used to have a contest called
> H> the "Great Parking Space Race" (maybe they still do).
> H> Competitors would have to drive out and legally park in four
> H> designated neighborhoods; the one with the shortest return
> H> time won. They carried an off-duty parking maid with them to
> H> keep them legal and record the parking.
>
> It's not just SF in movies where the actors always seem to be able to
> park! I sometimes find it irksome when I know the place. I wonder how
> much trouble it would be to script movies without this fantasy?
They'd run way over budget, due to the time required to find
GENUINE parking spots! ;-)
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