larryjensen Wrote:
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> Hi Johnson! And thanks for your comments!
> Are you any relation to Roseanne Barr?
Yes, I'm her adopted second cousin. We are both related - but only by marriage -
to W. C. Fields and Doctor Demento.
> To answer your question about the cover photo
> selection, I would have loved to have the perfect
> movie photo on the cover. I never found it. The
> standard in Hollywood for still publicity photos
> until recent times was always black & white, as
> the shots were intended for newspaper & maga-
> zine reproduction, as well as to document the
> production. While limited color was shot on some
> of the really big films beginning in the late '40s,
> 99% of the work was done in black and white
> until the 1990s. I was hoping to find a shot at
> the Colorado Railroad Museum, but none of the
> photos filed by locomotive number had the "Wow!"
> that I wanted. I even went through the 20,000
> uncatalogued slides they have in binders (lots
> of neat stuff), but no "Wow!"
>
> Other volumes in the series will have variations
> of fat Hollywood movie stacks on the covers,
> ranging from tasteful to atrocious.
Like this one perpetrated by Roosso for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the C&TS in 2010? It's about as atrocious a loco paint-job as I've ever seen. IMHO, of all the Hollywood uglifications only GG&BG even comes close
:*
>
... Wait until you see the shot on the cover of
> Volume Five! Since the K-36 class has been
> used in many films on both the D&S and C&TS,
> often with straight stacks, and guests on both
> railroads ride behind them on a regular basis,
> one of them became the logical choice. John West's
> photo of #489 is the perfect cover shot. I saw it,
> said "Wow!" and have been in love with it ever since.
> Oh yes, #489 was the star of "The Ballad of Gregorio
> Cortez," a 1982 PBS-TV movie.
>
> See my reply to dougvv for comments on "Night
> Passage."
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All With A Cell-Phone Can Twitter
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think ... "
p.s. SFAIK, most of the most atrocious applications of Stollywood Harlot make-up to the D&RGW K-class engines are the result of ignorant art directors trying to make them look like the classic beauties of the previous century - such as V&T #22 - The Inyo (see [
ngdiscussion.net]).
* Good Guys & Bad Guys, at least for which the smokebox was NOT shiny aluminium. Just be thankful that Roosso and his fellow instigators resisted the temptation to paint stand-in #487's semi-permanent plow à là Colorado & Southern, with the same scarlet red as was used on the counterweights
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