Re: packards in tv and movies

Posted by JWL On 2013/1/24 17:26:43

My 1955 Clipper sedan may be in a new movie. It will probably appear in a new Tom Hanks produced movie for HBO about the Kennedy assassination, Parkland, which is being filmed mostly in Austin. It was filmed in a scene were Oswald's mother is driving down a residential street and hears on the radio about the event. She becomes excited and runs the car into a curb. The Clipper was parked in a nearby driveway. The 1955 Oldsmobile that was being used as the mother's car overheated and could not be used for the final shot from the interior, so they used the Clipper. There were many other 1940s 50s and 60s automobiles staged parked on the street and in driveways. The Clipper is the only one to have its exterior and interior filmed. The Clipper saved the scene. Interesting watching the whole process. It took over two hours of set up and rehearsing to do what is only to be a 22-second scene.

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P.S. Jacki Weaver, from Sydney, plays Oswald's mother. I got to visit with her and have a photo take of us. Eat your heart out, Mal.