Amen. We should be happy we at least got Virginia. Remember those old (ca.
195? )episodes of THE GRAY GHOST? It was all about Col. John S. Mosby
galloping around Virginia (with foothills that looked a lot like the
outskirts of Burbank), and the the theme music....... choke.......
gasp...... the music was THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS. OUCH!!!!!!!
Closer to home, and time, yet in the spirit of "we (re-)create what we think
it should have been" I do recall a living-history French military unit (in
beautiful white uniforms and hailing from Rhode Island I think) at the 1981
Yorktown Bicentennial celebration playing "La Marseillaise" on their fifes
and drums. And I believe that the French flag which was used on all the
signs down there was the tri-color. Both came along a decade or so later,
with the French Revolution. But I suspect the graphic-artist contingent had
a say with the signs, because white with gold fleur de lis don't show up
well with the red white and blues of the American and British flags.
Anybody else remember that?
Come to think of it, did I see similar signs just recently in the
Jamestowne/Yorktown corridor?
Randy Cabell
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From: "Grundset, Eric" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: New World Movie
> Well at least the film was filmed in Virginia and not in some location
> that "looks like Virginia," like, Heaven Forbid! North Carolina or
> Maryland :-)!!!! Remember the snow-capped mountains along the James River
> in Disney's Pocahontas? Hopefully, there won't be any dry, brushy
> California landscapes in the background either in "The New World." I
> suppose the content of the movie may not be as authentic! We'll all have
> to see.
>
> Eric G. Grundset
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Browning Lyle E.
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:54 PM
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>
> On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Louise Bernikow wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 1/3/06 1:25:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask]
>> writes:
>>
>
>> it does look filmed at the Jamestown restoration. true?
>
> No. Sets were made on the Chickahominy River in James City for the
> fort and in Charles City for the NA village.
>
> Sadly, the fort was mulched after the movie was finished. What a
> great item to have on your property.
>
> Lyle Browning
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