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John said;
>The stills you see printed in publications are almost >invariably production
>stills rather than frame enlargements from the film >negative. They
>frequently don't replicate the angle or the framing of the >shot being filmed
>at the time. It is often the case that all sorts of >embarassments which are
>framed out of the shot creep into a production still.
> It wouldn't surprise me if, with a complex model like >Moonbase, it was
>built with removable sections. This would make it easier >to work with and to
>gain access to the different parts of the model. The >missing section
>probably either wasn't in the frame of the shot being >filmed at the time or
>the still was taken between takes which would also >account for the model
>craft possibly not hanging in it's final position.
>Sorry if this explanation sounds dull but it's very >plausible.
not at all dull and very plausible...that's unless we were expecting the husband!
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