Is this indeed stock footage? Has it been used anywhere else?
Stock footage in Manhunt?
- Thread starter Laura Cynthia Chambers
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I don't know, and I didn't go back to watch the episode. But, my guess is it's probably stock. I doubt they would have spent all that money to create a brief shot of period cars on a city street.
I don’t think that’s the question, though. No-one assumes this was filmed specifically for “Manhunt”. The question is whether this is stock footage (as in archival footage Paramount bought or licensed), whether that stock footage has been used anywhere else for other productions, or if it wasn’t stock footage, but something filmed for another production (say an old movie or newsreel) repurposed for the episode.
I don’t think any of this can easily be found out, I’m afraid. I checked the episodes end credits, and it lists nothing in terms of any stock footage being used (as I think they would be required if the episode were made today), so that’s a dead end. I guess someone would manually have to wade through period footage from newsreels, movie and TV productions to maybe find the source of that shot. Doing a backwards image search from a quickly cleaned up version of the shot doesn’t really bring up anything useful. So unless anyone randomly just remembers a movie where they have seen this, I doubt we’ll ever find out.
EDIT: I suppose it’s footage similar to this. Problem is, that there’s probably hundreds of stock clips like these.
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Yeah, unless there's any paperwork in the archives, you'd have to trawl through thousands of newsreels and old films to find the right footage.
There might be an outside chance that Mike Okuda or Dave Rossi could know from the remaster. I assume it would have been recomposited, unless that's one of the SD upscaled shots.
There might be an outside chance that Mike Okuda or Dave Rossi could know from the remaster. I assume it would have been recomposited, unless that's one of the SD upscaled shots.
I thought maybe someone might recognize it from a movie they saw.
Actually, that was the first of Laura's two questions, which I answered speculatively.I don’t think that’s the question, though. No-one assumes this was filmed specifically for “Manhunt”. The question is whether this is stock footage (as in archival footage Paramount bought or licensed), whether that stock footage has been used anywhere else for other productions, or if it wasn’t stock footage, but something filmed for another production (say an old movie or newsreel) repurposed for the episode.
I don’t think any of this can easily be found out, I’m afraid. I checked the episodes end credits, and it lists nothing in terms of any stock footage being used (as I think they would be required if the episode were made today), so that’s a dead end. I guess someone would manually have to wade through period footage from newsreels, movie and TV productions to maybe find the source of that shot. Doing a backwards image search from a quickly cleaned up version of the shot doesn’t really bring up anything useful. So unless anyone randomly just remembers a movie where they have seen this, I doubt we’ll ever find out.
EDIT: I suppose it’s footage similar to this. Problem is, that there’s probably hundreds of stock clips like these.
It looks like this intersection at the Paramount Lot
Almost definitely. I've never seen it in anything else, but I wouldn't be much suprised either way if it was in anything else or it wasn't.
The shot of the cars is actually from The Big Goodbye, not Manhunt. As has been pointed out, it's from the Paramount lot. It's certainly possible it's reused footage, but IMHO it's production quality is consistent with the 80s, when the episode was filmed, & could've very well have been shot for the show, because they had these assets available to them.
They even shoot on such a lot in Emergence, years later.
They even shoot on such a lot in Emergence, years later.
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