It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World – Then & Now
An evening pause: A fun look at the outdoor locations shot for the 1963 movie, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and how they look today. It is actually surprising how little change has occurred at so many of these places.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
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We saw that in a theater just a couple of years ago. It really is a fun movie.
The static wind turbines in the modern Palm Springs clip are a hilarious reflection on today’s green movement.
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The loss of the big “W” palms is very sad, with just an angled stump remaining.
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No one calls it 29 Palms, it’s 29 Stumps.
Every location was much more verdant than in the past.
Kevin-
Good deal!
It’s sorta the “The Longest Day,” for comedy films. (in that it has a “cast of thousands.”)
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I noticed both those things myself, excellent eye!
born01930–
Great word!
I’m going to incorporate that (“verdant”) into my daily speech!
This is worth a view– focuses on “Hogan’s Heroes,” but gives a good overview of the “40 acre’s back-lot,” home of Mayberry RFD, Gomer Pyle, and the Andy Griffith show. Not to mention the outside scenes from the Star Trek episode “Miri.”
Sold in 1976 and turned into office building’s.
Culver City; Desilu Studios “40 Acre’s back-lot”
https://youtu.be/_wDJZrmxCNQ
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BORN01930 … I noticed that too! I’m first-hand familiar with pretty much every place in that video and a whole lot of the state where it was filmed … I finally recognized that the reasons those places were so much more verdant (other than the mature trees) is because the later pictures were taken in the spring!