Re: Adventures with a 1955 Clipper
Posted by JWL On 2013/1/26 18:38:56
It has been some time since I posted on this blog. This posting is about the Clipper being in a new film being produced by Tom Hanks. I posted a version of this story in the General discussion in the "Packard in the Movies" thread.
It is going to be an HBO movie about the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 and is entitled "Parkland". The film is being mostly shot in Austin even though all the events depicted took place in Dallas. The scene the Clipper is in was shot on the block my daughter and her family live on in Hyde Park, and older neighborhood in the central part of the city.
The scene is about Lee Harvey Oswald's mother driving down a residential street when she hears of the news of the shooting on her car radio (not sure if it is about Kennedy or her son), becomes excited and and crashes the car into a curb. The mother is played by Jacki Weaver a noted Australian film actor. The car she drives is a blue 1955 Oldsmobile.
The Clipper was parked in my daughter's driveway being used as a background car like many other period correct ones staged in driveways and parked on the street. It was closest car to the curb crash scene and should show up nicely.
Anyway after several rehearsing drives down the street and a couple of curb crashes this part of the scene was filmed. Next, it was time for an interior scene looking out of the windshield. One problem though, the Olds became over heated and could not be used. Suddenly there were many of the film crew swarming over the Clipper. Then I was told they wanted to use the car on the street. I didn't understand what was going on at that time, but moved the car into position where the Olds had come to a rest.
Later I learned that had the Clipper not been there all the time and work involved in filming that scene would have to have been done over. So, it was fortunate the Clipper could be used to save the scene. I guess they can make the interior shot using the Clipper look like it took place in the Olds. The magic of movie making.
The Clipper gets its 22 seconds of fame.
The car wrangler for the film company is most interested in my other Packards (37 Six Convertible Coupe and 47 Custom Clipper Sedan) and we may get a chance to be in some future movies.
(o{}o)
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It is going to be an HBO movie about the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 and is entitled "Parkland". The film is being mostly shot in Austin even though all the events depicted took place in Dallas. The scene the Clipper is in was shot on the block my daughter and her family live on in Hyde Park, and older neighborhood in the central part of the city.
The scene is about Lee Harvey Oswald's mother driving down a residential street when she hears of the news of the shooting on her car radio (not sure if it is about Kennedy or her son), becomes excited and and crashes the car into a curb. The mother is played by Jacki Weaver a noted Australian film actor. The car she drives is a blue 1955 Oldsmobile.
The Clipper was parked in my daughter's driveway being used as a background car like many other period correct ones staged in driveways and parked on the street. It was closest car to the curb crash scene and should show up nicely.
Anyway after several rehearsing drives down the street and a couple of curb crashes this part of the scene was filmed. Next, it was time for an interior scene looking out of the windshield. One problem though, the Olds became over heated and could not be used. Suddenly there were many of the film crew swarming over the Clipper. Then I was told they wanted to use the car on the street. I didn't understand what was going on at that time, but moved the car into position where the Olds had come to a rest.
Later I learned that had the Clipper not been there all the time and work involved in filming that scene would have to have been done over. So, it was fortunate the Clipper could be used to save the scene. I guess they can make the interior shot using the Clipper look like it took place in the Olds. The magic of movie making.
The Clipper gets its 22 seconds of fame.
The car wrangler for the film company is most interested in my other Packards (37 Six Convertible Coupe and 47 Custom Clipper Sedan) and we may get a chance to be in some future movies.
(o{}o)
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