model ships in the cinema

I have been contacted by the historian at the 20th Century Fox Ranch who has a photograph of some interest to readers of this site.

This British film concerns the rescue and salvage tug boat service operating in the Atlantic during World War two.

Irwin Allen recycles both props and actors from his TV shows,Voyage to the bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel for this rather lame story.

A couple of miniature ships in a storm sequences can be seen in this movie found on Youtube.

I was recently contacted by an owner of a miniature mechanised rowing boat which is purported to be a movie miniature.

I stumbled across this film on youtube having never heard of it before.

I have replaced all the frame grabs for the post on Mutiny 1952.

There is almost every kind of miniature effect in this film, from a model ship to model aircraft and a miniature train.

This film employs a number of technicolor shots from previous films.

Shot as if from another vessel on a stormy rolling sea the modest miniature effects are mostly quite effective in this film.

An unusual film, particularly for the period, in that all the early model ship sequences appear to have been shot at sea with a real sky and horizon.

Very impressive miniature effects in this film supervised by Lawrence Butler.

This being a Republic Production means that the miniature effects were handled by the Lydecker brothers Howard and Theodore.

One of the better model ship films now in the public domain Captain Kidd has some very creditable miniature ship sequences supervised by Lee Zavitz.

I have recently found a better resolution copy of Deep Waters from 1948 on you tube.

This movie uses a number of technicolor stock miniature shots from other productions to flesh out the story.

Probably the Tora Tora Tora of its day in terms of the quantity and quality of model ship action, the movie tells the story of the meeting of the Merrimac and the Monitor, two iron clad ships that were the cutting edge of naval technology during the Ameri…

Made by much the same visual effects and production people as went on to make King Kong in 1933, this film features a miniature luxury yacht which hits a reef, blows up and sinks.

Among a sprinkling of picturesque matte paintings there is some very well executed model boat sequences in this film with the visual effects supervised by John P.

Some interesting early submarine miniature work in this film with the underwater shots being reasonably well shot.

Almost all of the ship action in the movie was shot on a real freighter but there is a cutaway to a tanker on fire and exploding at night which is a miniature.

This film was suggested by a reader some time ago and I have finally got around to including it in a post.

This comedy has a number of underwater miniature hull shots of the sailing ketch of the title.

For the most part the HMS Amethyst of the story is represented by the full size vessel herself and by a sister ship HMS Magpie for all the sailing and shots of the guns firing.

Nihonkai Daikaisen Japanese title.