11 Mar
1999
11 Mar
'99
8:54 a.m.
At 09:43 PM 3/10/99 -0800, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I was just watching Beverly Hills Cop.
In the police station offices, several shots:
DEC Rainbows.
The folks dressing the sets of movies scrounge almost as hard as
computer collectors. If they can sweet-talk some hardware maker into
lending machines for scenes, they'll do it. It's product placement.
Don't forget, many of the people working on movies are effectively
sub-contractors, and if they can do it for less money, they're
making money. And if they can get something that will "fall off
the truck" or re-sold when the sets are demolished, all the better:
I remember a particularly egregious example of a tech for the movie
"Twins" who was systematically begging software makers for actual
product (not just boxes, but disks, he insisted) to clutter some
laboratory scenes. What a scam!
- John