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Topic: Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Super 8 optical sound feature WANTED
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 30, 2015 12:58 PM
I so want to, and we are working again, (well $350.00 approximately per month, part time), but it all comes down to have the available cash to do so. If some comes up, I'll certainly be there, with some optical sound and otherwise rarities!
I so would love to meet ya in person, my friend!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 18, 2019 11:17 AM
Ahhhh yes, that is the one that was offered on ebay over the last few weeks. Actually, if it is on a 1600ft reel, if the reel is completely full, it might well be the full feature, but the fellow did include screenshots from it, so I already know that the color isn't quite as good as what I have right now. Thank you for posting that info. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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David M. Ice
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Posts: 14
From: Glendale, AZ, USA
Registered: Dec 2018
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posted January 25, 2019 09:41 AM
Believe it or not, I worked on the Grizzly Adams TV show (second season, including the Christmas special.) I was a Sound Editor. I edited and even created some of the bear sounds. The bear in reality never made any noise...he was waiting for the trainer to throw him a marshmallow!! But our dictum was “see an animal, hear an animal” so every time the bear opened his mouth, he had to “speak”. A lot of 15ips recording, slowed down to 7.5ips or even 3.75ips and boost the bass, etc., to get Ben’s dialogue! I only got to physically meet the bear (if memory serves, his name was Bozo) once and he was a total ham! Pull out any camera and he started performing! And the bear TRULY did LOVE Dan Haggerty. The bear did things with Dad he wouldn’t do for anybody else. It was a mutual love affair, and it showed on screen. BTW the entire series was filmed in 16mm! No 35mm shooting, ever—except for the first feature, which if memory serves was shot in Techniscope. (“Mountain Man”??) Anyway, it was a surreal 18 months I spent up in Salt Lake City, editing bear dialogue and bird chirps, etc.
We cheated the sound a LOT. For example, rabbits don’t make any noise unless you step on them. So we got our supervisor drunk, and he would giggle. We recorded that, sped it up 4x, and you get a high-pitched purr sound...and that became the rabbit’s “dialogue.” And our dictum of “see an animal, hear an animal” made for some interesting edits. A close-up of a raven, for example. It’s beak never moved—so we’d put in a chirp on the eye blinks!
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David M. Ice
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From: Glendale, AZ, USA
Registered: Dec 2018
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posted January 29, 2019 11:42 PM
Osi, not sure if you're asking me, but yes you can quote me any time. I have tons of stories, including a few pranks we pulled in post production!! Joe, I never got to meet or work with Don Shanks or Denver Pyle. Never met #7 either.
I will say that the entire show was almost 100% looped (ADR dialogue re-recording) because location sound usually had generators, wind, jets flying overhead, etc. So as sound editors we had to do a 100% sound job, everything from footsteps to clothing rustle to you name it.
A couple of the stories are quite ribald, but one I can tell here is about the Christmas special. It was the only time they filmed in snow, and for the opening sequence Dan was supposed to play in the snow with the bear. Dan started throwing snowballs at Ben....who promptly chased him down, tackled him, then SAT on Dan and playfully threw snoballs in Dan's face! It was utterly unplanned and unexpected--but like I said, that bear LOVED Dan Haggarty, and Dan was laughing hysterically the whole time. The director just let the cameras roll (I think they were rolling at least 2 or 3) and the sequence is in the show. One of those "happy accidents" that happen once in a blue moon.
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