Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Eddie Paul, maker and fabricator of Hollywood movie vehicles

 above image from http://www.epindustries.com

The photos here show the Cars 1 tour vehicles, and the blue bikes are from "Leathernecks" a George Clooney movie, and Eddie's company has also made the vehicles for Fast and Furious 1 and 2, a van in ET, and the vehicles in XXX, plus the Mercury for Stallone in Cobra http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/from-stallone-movie-cobra-my-love-for.html

below images thanks to Neil Larson


proof that learning never stops

Thursday, March 29, 2012

The well animated vehicles from the movie "Tin Tin", quite the variety










A train crash in the movie "Hugo" replicates the famous Oct 1895 Granville-Paris Express wreck photo... pretty cool to include that in a movie



here is the original
The engine careened across almost 98 ft of the station concourse, crashed through a 2 foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 33 ft below, where it stood on its nose. All on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers (out of 131), the fireman and two conductors; however, one woman on the street below was killed by falling masonry. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine drivers who were trying to make up for lost time. A conductor incurred a 25 franc penalty and the engine driver a 50 franc penalty.
Via: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

I've posted that old photo before, because it's just amazing to me. Trains falling out of buildings... not very often that happens http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-of-most-impressive-photos-ive-seen.html

Sunday, February 5, 2012

I felt the Steampunk desire today, So I watched "Steamboy" and grabbed these screen shots, cool movie, just make sure to select the language options of your native tongue and avoid reading the whole thing

 any movie with a motorwheel can't be bad. A steam powered one is even better.


 Good kid has a runn in with the bad guys trying to steal the plans and prototype his inventor dad and grand dad sent him, and the kid tries to escape, using that motorwheel, gets chased to a locomotive, which gets attacked by a blimp ...

 later the bad guys send out an army of armored soldiers, and this aeronaut
who all are engaging in a war with the british who have these cool old tanks. The time frame is Victorian, and before any vehicles but the trains and tanks. 

Leatherheads, the movie, had some great vehicles from the 1920's... George Clooney driving a motorcycle and sidecar, and Rene Zellweger. Good movie

 I looked carefully at the motorcycle, and can't see who made it. Could be any of several bike companies








 I just learned that these were both made by Eddie Paul, Thanks to Neil Larson for sending me these!