A minor curiosity from ORDEAL

Spotted something in ORDEAL tonight and not sure if it's ever been
mentioned.

As Sky 1 prepares to launch, we see Skydiver perform the usual 45%
tilt underwater. Then, just before lift off, we see one of the crew
speaking to Capt Waterman over an intercom. One of the other crew
can be seen in the background. Both appear to be standing casually
on a level surface, not strapped into their seats while the deck
beneath them slopes dramatically downward from forward to aft as you
might imagine.

Of course, if necessary we can put this down to Colonel Foster not
thinking straight while asleep .. :)

Also, there's a very good shot of Miss Ealand's reception area from
Straker's office in The Responsibility Seat, as Jo Fraser walks
through to see Straker. As Bill said, just one continuous floor
surface, all the way through! But maybe they'd had a new carpet
fitted the same day and were waiting for someone from SHADO
maintenance to come along with a sharp knife so they could get the
lift to move.


James

--- In SHADO@y..., James Gibbon <james.gibbon@v...> wrote:
> Spotted something in ORDEAL tonight and not sure if it's ever been
> mentioned. ...

Someone with a SHADO web area is or was keeping a list of movie
blunders. This should go in it.

And, in Moonbase, everybody moves about indoors as if under full
Earth gravity all the time.

What are Interceptor pilots' helmet visors for? They won't have wind
in their faces. There is an air gap below the visor, so it can't be
to keep air round the pilot if the canopy is broken, unless we are to
pretend that the suit is a full pressure suit with sealed helmet.
Which touches on how the pilot gets from the chute into the
Interceptor without being spaced (= exposed to space without a
spacesuit) along the way and without having to lose three chute-fulls
or a silo-full of air at each launch.

>And, in Moonbase, everybody moves about indoors as if under full
>Earth gravity all the time.

I don't think you can count this a "blooper" -- I suspect that
they intended an artificial gravity field was in place on Moonbase.
Notice that when they walk around on the lunar surface, they
seem to be acting under less gravity.

>Which touches on how the pilot gets from the chute into the
>Interceptor without being spaced (= exposed to space without a
>spacesuit) along the way and without having to lose three chute-fulls
>or a silo-full of air at each launch.

Well, I won't defend the Interceptor launch sequences... as you
say, there seems to be all sorts of problems with this! Also,
whenever they show an external shot of Moonbase, there is no
evidence of *any* Moonbase Interceptor launch craters nearby!

Marc

What are the visors on the Interceptor pilots helmets for? To keep the glare
of the sun out of their eyes perhaps.

James K.


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Marc Martin wrote:

> Well, I won't defend the Interceptor launch sequences... as you
> say, there seems to be all sorts of problems with this! Also,
> whenever they show an external shot of Moonbase, there is no
> evidence of *any* Moonbase Interceptor launch craters nearby!
>


I think an excellent way to 'load' the astronaut into the
interceptor would be to have a pressurised tube extend from the
floor of the silo and inject the astronaut + seat from below. The
tube would actually equalise pressurise inside the interceptor just
before the seat was raised into place. Then a cover would slide
over to seal the hatch just before the tube is withdrawn. The tube
itself could even conceivably be sealed just before withdrawal
somehow so that a minimum of air would be lost.

But something very similar had already been done in Captain Scarlet,
for Gerry Anderson's other 'interceptors'.

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