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I have been trying to get my hands on these photos for over a year now. I work in the Vancouver film and television industry as a graphic designer and I had heard chatter a while back about two Catalina 30's that were built for a locally shot movie, and today during a conversation I found out that a friend of mine had these pics on his laptop. The movie, if you can call it that, was Freddy Got Fingered, one of the most pathetic pieces of crap to ever be filmed here. The show starred Tom Green and co-starred Rip Torn. Why Torn agreed to work with Green is beyond me. Anyways, in the movie, the C30 belongs to Rip Torn's character, at some point in the ah...story, his boat gets picked up off the water by a helicopter and dropped into a huge wood chipper at a sawmill, ...whatever. In the end this entire sequence was edited out of the film. Too bad the rest of the film wasn't edited out of the film. If you ever have the misfortune to view this epic, watch the background. The show was filmed mostly around my little town of Squamish, and the sailing scenes were staged out of the Squamish Yacht Club, where I'll be mooring Tomorrow's Girl when she goes back in the water. |
Two boats for two takes. |
The boats were built over a period of three weeks by a group of six highly skilled scenic carpenters from IATSE Local 891. |
Although the boats might not stand up to close scrutiny, from 200 feet up, dangling by a helicopter lift cable they could probably even have fooled Frank Butler! |
Setting up the wood-chipper scene. |
Carting the pieces of after the wood-chipper scene. |
I'm still on the hunt for the elusive aerial shots of the helicopter flying the Catalina over the marina. It may take a while to hunt them down but some day I will post the other shots here! |
Building Fake C30's |