Aerial Photo of the Original M*A*S*H Site - Page 2

137th Gebirg · December 27 2007, 08:53 PM

Quite welcome. It was definitely a labor of love.

Morpheus 02 · December 31 2007, 11:56 AM

Very impresssive...but where did all the personnel (like Klinger, Sgt. Rizzo) sleep?

Sorry i'm getting so nitpicky -- we ARE on TREK BBS, y'know

McCoy · December 31 2007, 03:44 PM

Coincidentally, I recently bought the whole series off Amazon for $100. Burning through the eps now. It's bringing back a lot of memories. Such a groundbreaking show in its time.

Kryton · December 31 2007, 04:29 PM

Enjoy the Dream episode. Good stuff. :thumbsup:

S. Gomez · December 31 2007, 05:35 PM

TremblingBluStar said:
Was this filmed in Korea?

I haven't seen the original film, but I have seen quite a few episodes of the show. The sand and vegetation don't look a thing like what you'd find in Korea.

That's interesting. I have a friend who went to Korea a couple years ago (still there now) and when he came back for a visit one time he said the exact opposite: that the topography on M*A*S*H is actually quite similar.

Christopher · December 31 2007, 06:29 PM

Well, I imagine it depends on what part of Korea you're referring to. It may be small, but it can't be entirely uniform. The key area would be the vicinity of Uijeongbu, which was always said to be about three miles away from the 4077th. Here's a page I found with a lot of photos of the Suraksan National Park near Uijeongbu:

http://rokdrop.com/2007/04/16/things...ksan-mountain/

Judging from those, I'd say both views are correct: the mountainous, forested topography of the Uijeongbu area is broadly similar to that of the Malibu Creek location, but the vegetation and geological formations look rather different up close.

S. Gomez · December 31 2007, 07:58 PM

Thanks for those pics. It undoubtedly matters where in the country you are. I'm not entirely sure where my friend is (in fact, I'm not entirely certain he hasn't gone to another Southeast Asian country), but I think it's one of the less populated areas. I could be wrong, though.

And thanks for posting the maps again, 137th; I'll use them next time I watch the show.

FalTorPan · December 31 2007, 08:49 PM

137th Gebirg, do you have a web page where you display your super-cool M*A*S*H diagrams? If not, then you should!

McCoy · January 2 2008, 05:26 PM

Last night we watched the one with the soldier wounded in the throat, where the whole episode is from his POV (the camera, and by extension the viewer at home, is the soldier). During the part where the soldier is flying in on the chopper, there is a nice flyby of the site. You can really see a lot of the layout displayed on those maps.

137th Gebirg · January 3 2008, 02:38 PM

Morpheus 02 said:
Very impresssive...but where did all the personnel (like Klinger, Sgt. Rizzo) sleep?

Sorry i'm getting so nitpicky -- we ARE on TREK BBS, y'know

Yes, I have long wondered that myself. Rizzo was known to sleep under the jeeps in his motor pool, so that one has been solved and after Radar left, Klinger slept in his old bunk in the office. I have no idea which tent was used for him in the series. I should probably go back and add his name to one of the tents, but it was clear that during the series run, with only a few tents to work with, actors were moved around for the purposes of filming. Even the exterior sets at Malibu Creek were probably 1/10th the size of a fully operational MASH unit in Korea, which were massive tent cities - no permanent standing structures like the OR building in the show.

137th Gebirg · January 3 2008, 02:40 PM

FalTorPan said:
137th Gebirg, do you have a web page where you display your super-cool M*A*S*H diagrams? If not, then you should!

Heh...hadn't thought about that. I suppose I could do a sub-section of my Starship Schematics site - M*A*S*H schematics

It is one of my long-time passions, almost as old as my love of Trek and Battlestar. I'll likely try to work on an interior layout of the movie hospital before I create the web page for them. Right now, they're exclusively hosted on ImageShack, but that can change.