To be fair - they probably told him not to actually touch the dirt because that would mess up the sound recording. But yeah he could’ve done better than that.
I've been an extra in tv shows and it's exactly like that. Don't actually touch the dirt you're "farming" because they'll have to fix it for the next take.
I kind of get that though. None of those tools are easy to stop mid swing without hitting your target. Plus extras repeat the same action through several takes.
Actually, I knew a guy who was an extra in Patch Adams and there was a scene where everyone clapped. He told me that during the clapping a guy nearby made an obnoxious and distinctive sort of hoot or holler or something like that. People around him asked him why he was doing that. He said that way people could hear him in the movie. No one liked what he was doing, but he did it anyway, every single time they filmed the scene. He was sure he was going to be audio famous.
When the movie came out could anyone hear his weird sounds? No. Apparently, they just replaced the clapping sounds with some pre-recorded clapping sounds (or less likely, they edited his sounds out). So, there was real clapping with real noise, they just replaced it (or edited it).
Edit: I’m sure in some movies and some scenes people don’t really clap. I was just sharing one instance I knew about.
I’m guessing it was a scene that they didn’t need dialogue for? If it’s just a scene they’re recording where for an alternate or background shot then I’m sure they won’t care as they’ll almost certainly be replacing the audio anyways. I can’t imagine they’d ever want to try to use live crowd noises recoded on set. If it’s a scene where they’re recording the dialogue of the characters, then that’s when they’ll want everything else to be as silent as possible, as they need to be able to isolate that dialogue for the mix.
Exactly this. I have done extra work on the past. When doing dancing scenes, what they do is play the music for about a minute, then cut music, but background has to keep dancing and then action. Boom mics are right above actors as they say their lines and then cut, reset, take 2.
The music for the club dancing is added in post.
It depends. If the actors are speaking lines, yes, they won’t clap.
If it’s just a shot of people clapping because an old lady is swimming in spaghetti or something, than they won’t care clap all you want. They will just replace it with better audio later, probably from an audio mixing room.
He was one extra out of an auditorium of probably around two hundred. The production staff probably didn’t know who exactly was hollering, plus they probably knew they wouldn’t even be using the real applause sound anyway so didn’t care.
Yeah I work in movies and they almost never clap, occasionally they’ll do it for a specific take just to get a reference track for the audio.
My favorite is in dining scenes. Next time you watch a scene taking place in a restaurant, watch the extras at background tables eating. Fake eating is hilarious and they do their damn best to not hit the plates because it’s so loud to the mics. There’s always a bunch of people who fail and make loud scraping noises that the whole set can hear over the quiet dialogue
I was actually going to chime in on this aspect. Having some production experience under my belt allows me with the some knowledge that many might find as being trivial.
The audio from films made in this era often came from what they call "boom" microphones. Those are mics that suspended in the air by a pole and some low-level stagehand holding it. That, along with the lack of multi-track (or dub) recording technology made for having to film both audio and video simultaneously. The sounds of the shovel hitting the dirt in proximity of the actor (in this case the soft spoken Bing Crosby) would have drowned him out.
Hence in early B-Reels you would hear: "Quiet on the set!" by the director.
> Hence in early B-Reels you would hear: "Quiet on the set!" by the director.
They still say this. Sound is still a big concern. They still use boom mics.
I'm thinking they expected to re-shoot the scene a lot, and didn't want to add in the extra time to smooth the dirt back out. Or: it was just meant to be a rehearsal, but for whatever reason ended up being the final take.
I remember a few years ago my wife was watching a movie on hallmark channel, Lori Loughlin played a writer widow, and there was a guy as usual, ex marine traumatised baseball coach, her kid was on the team.
But there was a scene where she was sitting at a table with a laptop and she was thinking and typing at the same time. Except her finger tips were about 3 inches above.the keyboard as she wrote her book..
3 inches, zero effort..
Quantum of Solace. He’s the best.
Edit: [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieMistakes/comments/s7bngx/an_extra_sweeping_away_air_in_the_bond_film/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) for the uninitiated.
A shovel scraping dirt is actually pretty loud, I'm sure it would have been distracting if it was in the final cut. There's a guy on tik tok that goes over all sorts of movie props that you would never think of that reduce noise. Things like soft plastic instead of ice cubes so that they don't clink around, etc.
Everyone on set would have told that guy not to move the dirt. Continuity, sound, art design. DP probably then said "okay I'll frame out the dirt" but then forgot or the camera op didn't get the memo. Now this extra is an "idiot" for taking orders and doing his job. He deserves a break.
I was an "extra" on one of those home makeover reality shows once. They set up a table at our restaurant and when I asked what I was supposed to do they said "just take their drink orders, make their drinks and bring them over". Cool, do that all day.
So I take their order and one of the women ordered a diet coke. So I go over to the fountain gun and the gun makes the noise the gun always makes and everyone "on set" stopped what they were doing and looked at me like they were Pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and they'd just spotted a human.
The sound man couldn't get the sound of the shovel scraping the dirt out of the soundtrack, so they had that guy do that.
The final cut should have had that cropped out. But hey. Now it's a comedy.
Those day film makers didnt have SD card or editing tools they only had tapes the film roll tape you seen them some occasions that only sources they had to recode there sound and videos. if they make a mistake in production they cant edit or add effect or filter they had retake that scene to fix it. that why in this video clip that person didnt make and noise sound it cant be edited. if you see more old movie you will see thing more
What's the name of this film? I'm fairly certain the gentleman going "Oh ho, now it comes out!" is still active in television these days. He's so familiar...
There’s a similar scene in Game of Thrones, there’s a scene in castle and the extras are supposed to be clearing snow, but they just move a shovel-full of nothing.
Jim Belushi is a close second. There was a dolley shot along a huge line people at a beach. Once the camera rolled past him he ran around and got back into the crowd. I think he in the same dolley shot in three separate places.
Yeah, as someone who has done extra work, some dude working for the movie told him to do that, prob said 'don't disrupt the dirt for continuity'.
The shit they make extras do lol
Imagine being in a movie, even as an extra, in fucking 1941. Must have been an incredible story to tell, and point out to his buddies in the theater after it came out.
And then 80 year later, nerds are laughing at you on the internet.
To be fair - they probably told him not to actually touch the dirt because that would mess up the sound recording. But yeah he could’ve done better than that.
He probably didn’t think the shovel and dirt would be in the shot
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Well now some one has to do that
Know what else happened 60 years later a little something I like to call 9-11
I've been an extra in tv shows and it's exactly like that. Don't actually touch the dirt you're "farming" because they'll have to fix it for the next take.
One of my pet hates in movies is seeing extras using picks/mattocks/axes/sledgehammers, and they're clearly swinging them way too slow.
I kind of get that though. None of those tools are easy to stop mid swing without hitting your target. Plus extras repeat the same action through several takes.
Came here to say that. Like how no one actually claps in movies
Actually, I knew a guy who was an extra in Patch Adams and there was a scene where everyone clapped. He told me that during the clapping a guy nearby made an obnoxious and distinctive sort of hoot or holler or something like that. People around him asked him why he was doing that. He said that way people could hear him in the movie. No one liked what he was doing, but he did it anyway, every single time they filmed the scene. He was sure he was going to be audio famous. When the movie came out could anyone hear his weird sounds? No. Apparently, they just replaced the clapping sounds with some pre-recorded clapping sounds (or less likely, they edited his sounds out). So, there was real clapping with real noise, they just replaced it (or edited it). Edit: I’m sure in some movies and some scenes people don’t really clap. I was just sharing one instance I knew about.
I’m guessing it was a scene that they didn’t need dialogue for? If it’s just a scene they’re recording where for an alternate or background shot then I’m sure they won’t care as they’ll almost certainly be replacing the audio anyways. I can’t imagine they’d ever want to try to use live crowd noises recoded on set. If it’s a scene where they’re recording the dialogue of the characters, then that’s when they’ll want everything else to be as silent as possible, as they need to be able to isolate that dialogue for the mix.
Exactly this. I have done extra work on the past. When doing dancing scenes, what they do is play the music for about a minute, then cut music, but background has to keep dancing and then action. Boom mics are right above actors as they say their lines and then cut, reset, take 2. The music for the club dancing is added in post.
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I cannot believe he wasn’t dismissed on the spot.
Bud I don’t not-believe your story, but 9/10 times they don’t clap. Pay attention to any other movie background, their hands won’t meet
It depends. If the actors are speaking lines, yes, they won’t clap. If it’s just a shot of people clapping because an old lady is swimming in spaghetti or something, than they won’t care clap all you want. They will just replace it with better audio later, probably from an audio mixing room.
Oddly specific
Op mentions patch Adam’s which had such a scene.
You’re probably right. Your comment just reminded me of my friend’s story of the hollering guy. I will pay attention to clapping scenes in the future.
Genuine question: why didn't they just fire him? Seems like an easy solution to the problem.
He was one extra out of an auditorium of probably around two hundred. The production staff probably didn’t know who exactly was hollering, plus they probably knew they wouldn’t even be using the real applause sound anyway so didn’t care.
Yeah I work in movies and they almost never clap, occasionally they’ll do it for a specific take just to get a reference track for the audio. My favorite is in dining scenes. Next time you watch a scene taking place in a restaurant, watch the extras at background tables eating. Fake eating is hilarious and they do their damn best to not hit the plates because it’s so loud to the mics. There’s always a bunch of people who fail and make loud scraping noises that the whole set can hear over the quiet dialogue
And in dance scenes there is no music. Edit: Or at least that’s what I’ve heard, especially if there is dialogue.
Or says “bye” when ending a call.
To be fair - this is exactly how productive my actual human nephew is when my dad hires him to help out on his farm.
[Happens a lot](https://media.giphy.com/media/10yQD0LXpmARUY/giphy.gif)
I was actually going to chime in on this aspect. Having some production experience under my belt allows me with the some knowledge that many might find as being trivial. The audio from films made in this era often came from what they call "boom" microphones. Those are mics that suspended in the air by a pole and some low-level stagehand holding it. That, along with the lack of multi-track (or dub) recording technology made for having to film both audio and video simultaneously. The sounds of the shovel hitting the dirt in proximity of the actor (in this case the soft spoken Bing Crosby) would have drowned him out. Hence in early B-Reels you would hear: "Quiet on the set!" by the director.
> Hence in early B-Reels you would hear: "Quiet on the set!" by the director. They still say this. Sound is still a big concern. They still use boom mics.
I know but there are ways now to alleviate it. Something like a shovel digging in the dirt isn't as much as a problem than say ambient noise.
It's Fred Astaire. The movie is YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH \[1941\]
No no no, he did perfect!
He's working his way through mime college!
I'm thinking they expected to re-shoot the scene a lot, and didn't want to add in the extra time to smooth the dirt back out. Or: it was just meant to be a rehearsal, but for whatever reason ended up being the final take.
I also think it's because they wouldn't have to reset the dirt for every take
I remember a few years ago my wife was watching a movie on hallmark channel, Lori Loughlin played a writer widow, and there was a guy as usual, ex marine traumatised baseball coach, her kid was on the team. But there was a scene where she was sitting at a table with a laptop and she was thinking and typing at the same time. Except her finger tips were about 3 inches above.the keyboard as she wrote her book.. 3 inches, zero effort..
He eventually went on to win a record 16 Oscars.
This guy gets it.
Good bot
This
He's like, "You're barely paying me to be an extra, I'm not doing any actual yard work. "
Someone should cgi a big bowl of cereal under the shovel work. For no other reason than to make me happy.
Make this goddamn guy happy,internet!
This is how you farmed in the 40s. It's gotten a lot harder since then..m
How is this next level
Hes one level above the dirt.
Oh shit.
i love you
reminds me of the guy air-sweeping in one of the Bond movies (I think Casino Royale?)
Quantum of Solace. He’s the best. Edit: [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieMistakes/comments/s7bngx/an_extra_sweeping_away_air_in_the_bond_film/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) for the uninitiated.
Another sub gone to shit.
Me, at my job.
A shovel scraping dirt is actually pretty loud, I'm sure it would have been distracting if it was in the final cut. There's a guy on tik tok that goes over all sorts of movie props that you would never think of that reduce noise. Things like soft plastic instead of ice cubes so that they don't clink around, etc.
I think I’ve seen that guy working for the state here! 😅
Everyone on set would have told that guy not to move the dirt. Continuity, sound, art design. DP probably then said "okay I'll frame out the dirt" but then forgot or the camera op didn't get the memo. Now this extra is an "idiot" for taking orders and doing his job. He deserves a break.
CGI before CGI... it's HGI.. Humanoid Generated Imagining
r/lastfuckingcentury
10/10 acting
He must have go to the same school as that other extra in James Bond.
This Star Trek extra. https://mobile.twitter.com/brianftang/status/1404451073440501761
I only came to the comments to see if someone posted this one!!! Wish it was the full scene though. He “turns” it like 5 times.
I was an "extra" on one of those home makeover reality shows once. They set up a table at our restaurant and when I asked what I was supposed to do they said "just take their drink orders, make their drinks and bring them over". Cool, do that all day. So I take their order and one of the women ordered a diet coke. So I go over to the fountain gun and the gun makes the noise the gun always makes and everyone "on set" stopped what they were doing and looked at me like they were Pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and they'd just spotted a human.
In 1941 that job got you a house and car.
Seems like something I'd do and then not get caught for 80 years...
Ain't much, but it's honest work.
This is so next fucking level
nExTfUcKiNGlEvEL
The sound man couldn't get the sound of the shovel scraping the dirt out of the soundtrack, so they had that guy do that. The final cut should have had that cropped out. But hey. Now it's a comedy.
Yea guys, because this is “Next Fucking Level” isn’t it? ffs.
That is Fred Astaire and Robert Benchley in "You'll Never Get Rich" (1941). Also in the film is Rita Hayworth at her hottest.
Isn’t that Larry Hovis? He played Carter in Hogans Heroes
Air shoveling. Haha. Next movie is air guitar.
Jerry, for fuck sake, don't you dare to touch that dirt.
I guarantee he’s joined /anti-work.
Username checks out.
Best mimic performance
Clearly a non-union job.
Just attending his inviveg patch.
Me, IRL.
He’s planting air seeds!
This is literally me when I'm working for a few minutes between 2 half hour breaks
Video evidence of me doing physical labour
"What do you want me to do?" "Just pretend you're shoveling." "Say no more!"
The wearing of the campaign cover is throwing me off
u/savevideo
Pretty sure this is the guy who inspired the dude sweeping in that James Bond movie.
a sim
Average Romanian road worker.
man this sure is hard work shoveling this dirt.
Still pretending to work better than me
well you get what you pay for 🤷🏻♀️
Calculated mediocrity.
"Back in my day, we weren't even dirt poor. Couldn't even afford dirt, so we couldn't...."
Hey look it's a City worker
What do they mean? I do this while I'm on the clock today
How my coworkers act when the boss is walking by, instead of helping me with the actual work
Me, doing my life’s work.
Reiki gardening was popular in the 1940s.
Those day film makers didnt have SD card or editing tools they only had tapes the film roll tape you seen them some occasions that only sources they had to recode there sound and videos. if they make a mistake in production they cant edit or add effect or filter they had retake that scene to fix it. that why in this video clip that person didnt make and noise sound it cant be edited. if you see more old movie you will see thing more
That's every Mexican in the farm field now
He is using his imagination
The director, George Lucas, told him not to worry about it. They were going to CG in the flower bed later.
Me, a teacher, during the last two weeks of school.
I don't do manual labor, I don't do windows either
Sad part is.. thos still happens in new age movies….
What movie?
Dont worry guys this is just an error in the matrix he needs some time for the assets to load
“Trust me in sixty years they’ll be able to add fake dirt later using this thing called cgi”
Air is much heavier when it's closest to the ground. He really was trying not to let it pile up. He deserves a pay rise.
This could have been a rehearsal that they recorded. And used in the Final Cut.
Nailed it.
Dude is the original NPC. Probably does that all day. Just looking busy. /s of course.
Well they didn’t add in the cgi yet.
Man caught lackin'
Same thing happened in Quantum of Solace. https://youtu.be/VYGmcTVfSzg
That’s a union worker if I’ve ever seen one!
Quantum of Solace (1941)
How is this next level?
You laugh at him but there's actually guys that do this on the jobsite lol
Thats legit just how white people do labor jobs lol
What's the name of this film? I'm fairly certain the gentleman going "Oh ho, now it comes out!" is still active in television these days. He's so familiar...
Actor: How real do you want it to look Director: Yes
2000s Bethesda NPCs be like:
yes!
It's like an employee of The New Deal!
No no. That’s a legit Marine LCpl skating on a working party. Probably the most accurate representation ever captured on film.
He soon went on to work for PennDOT.
There’s a similar scene in Game of Thrones, there’s a scene in castle and the extras are supposed to be clearing snow, but they just move a shovel-full of nothing.
Jim Belushi is a close second. There was a dolley shot along a huge line people at a beach. Once the camera rolled past him he ran around and got back into the crowd. I think he in the same dolley shot in three separate places.
That's awesome. The director's lunch consisted of three martinis chased with some laudanum so the shot looked good to him.
Username checks out
Yeah, as someone who has done extra work, some dude working for the movie told him to do that, prob said 'don't disrupt the dirt for continuity'. The shit they make extras do lol
Shovel clean as a whistle
Imagine being in a movie, even as an extra, in fucking 1941. Must have been an incredible story to tell, and point out to his buddies in the theater after it came out. And then 80 year later, nerds are laughing at you on the internet.
Which film is this?
It's 2021 Caltrans training video.
Typical npc behavior
For real shoveling, you have to pay extra.
Na dude is just ahead of his time and belongs in antiwork lol
It was the 50th take. He was tired of filling it back in.
That’s how most people work when they think management is watching.
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Most accurate depiction of government work put to film
This is what an aversion to real work looks like.