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Alternate Footage?


I have seen both the series and the movie (Sign of Zorro) it was edited into. Does anybody know if the scenes in the movie version were filmed during the episodes or were they filmed later for the movie? Example: Movie version has a scene where Diego is trying on his mask then showing Bernardo the hidden passage. TV version has him showing Bernardo the Passage AFTER he has rescued Torres from jail

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Movie version has a scene where Diego is trying on his mask then showing Bernardo the hidden passage. TV version has him showing Bernardo the Passage AFTER he has rescued Torres from jail


Are the scenes internally the same, just in a different place? If so, they would have simply re-edited the original footage.

I can't give you a definitive answer, but it's always been my impression that back then when TV episodes were repackaged as a movie, they pretty much just created the film from footage already shot for television. The Zorro movie was released only a year after the series premiered, so I'd guess that they had the movie in mind all along and made sure to film all the scenes they knew they would need for it, especially any that included guest actors -- but they were still filming the series, so it would have been quite possible to do a few pick-up scenes if if needed.

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