Quite a few of the exterior shots in that movie were filmed in the vicinity of the rocks (which were more visible in some scenes than in others).Not the classic angle but still the rocks!
"Blazing Saddles"
Vasquez Rocks appearances
- Thread starter J.T.B.
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"You men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor."
Truer words were never spoken.
I've been watching the 1957 Zorro on Disney+, keeping an eye out for the iconic Vasquez cliff, since some of the location shooting has looked like it was shot in the vicinity, or at least somewhere with similar geology. But the cliff doesn't show up until episode 21 of season 2, the start of an arc guest starring Annette Funicello. I's enhanced by Peter Ellenshaw matte paintings that make it look like it's at the top of a much, much higher cliff. (Sorry I'm no good at screencaps.)
No. But you can see a computer-colorized version starting at about 17:20 here:
(This is a Spanish dub of the episode, which means it's actually in the language the characters were supposedly speaking in the original!)
Vazquez Rocks... 2nd thought after ST
At 17:15 in that clip you get a clear shot of Zorro riding past a large rock formation. In the image below, you can see that the upthrust formation most familiar as "Vasquez Rocks" was just out of frame to the left.
(image captured from here)
See also:
Arena_149.JPG (700×530) (trekcore.com)
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It's the cliff on the left of those images that's the iconic one. In the "Arena" photo, you can sort of see the road stretching back between the two big formations -- the road I remember walking along to get to and from the parking lot when I was there.
It's the most easily-recognizable, perhaps, but all of them are the Vasquez Rocks. Even if you were to limit the conversation to only Star Trek, there have been a lot of scenes filmed on the premises over the years which did not feature your one "iconic" upthrust.
Everyone who goes there walks that same stretch, and it features in not a small number of movie and television scenes itself.
(Seriously, though: can we banish the word "iconic" from the vocabulary sometime soon? It's so grossly overused (and so frequently misused) as to have become nothing more than a noise word. It no longer means anything.)
Vasquez Rocks is the name of the entire 932-acre park. I don't understand why you're trying to drum up an argument about two specific outcroppings within it.
Hear, hear!
I found another Zorro-related appearance of Vasquez Rocks, early in The Bold Caballero (1936), the first Zorro picture with sound (and in color!). It starts at about 7:18 below, and is from an unusual angle:
Ian Wolfe is in it as a priest, so it could also go in the Trek guest stars thread.
It's a surprisingly good movie, with a revisionist take where Zorro leads an uprising of Native American peons against oppressive taxation, with at least some of the peons played by actual indigenous actors. Also a really strong, commanding female lead, Heather Angel.
Ian Wolfe is in it as a priest, so it could also go in the Trek guest stars thread.
It's a surprisingly good movie, with a revisionist take where Zorro leads an uprising of Native American peons against oppressive taxation, with at least some of the peons played by actual indigenous actors. Also a really strong, commanding female lead, Heather Angel.
A bit late in posting this. When COZI TV ran its Universal monster movie marathon on Halloween, they aired 'Dracula' with Bela Legosi and the coach carrying Harker to Dracula's castle passed by the Vasquez rock formation. Some of it was obscured/extended with a matte painting, but it was there just the same.
This is nothing but I was just on sketchfab and coincidentally found 3D scan of Vasquez Rocks that I thought was super dope. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/vasquez-rocks-photogrammetry-79a310e006fa406a8291319bf6f9c9e7
Yeah, I mentioned here on the first page...
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/vasquez-rocks-appearances.307937/#post-13765815
A cool resource worth mentioning again.
