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I could make a box with a wooden frame and make the sides of the box out of screen widow netting. A drone inside such a box would probably be able to fly.
It would be really difficult to find a box material which looked like the box in whatever episode you are referencing and was also porus enough for air to enable a drone inside to fly. A box material which looked solid but was porus enough would be difficult to find or create.
Here is something which confused me a little ever since I was a child reading about real and fictional pirates.
The novel <i>Treasure Island</i> and the movie adapataitons of it have one of the pirates in Flint's crew and Long John's bunch named Israel Hands.
Considering the earliest possible fictional date for the events in the novel, Hands would have been either a very young and precocious pirate in Blackbeard's time, or a very old pirate when he meets Jim Hawkins, or both.
Especially considering that Blackbeard put Israel Hands in charge of a captured ship as early as 1718.
Possibly Jim met Israel Hands Jr. or Israel Hands III.
Anyway, I'd love to see a Blackbeard movie depicting Israel Hands as one of the youngest boy pirates ever, just so he can be in <i>Treasure Island</i>.
Actually the Modoc lands along Lost River and elsewhere and the Modoc War were in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The Lava beds where most of the fighting was are few miles south of the Oregon-California border.
I actually read the book <i>Mackenna's Gold </I>, 1963, by Heck Allen.
I don't remember much about the plot, except that There was no cavalry sergeant Tibbs in the book. The closest character to him was a US army Indian Scout. a fictional teenage son of the historical Mickey Free (1847/48-1914).
<ul>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Free </url>
And after reading <i>Mackenna's Gold </I>, 1963 I read up the history and legend of the Lost Adams Diggings.
And from what I have read, I don't know which - if any - of the many versions of the story of the Adams mine are correct.
I forget the fictional date, except that I think I remember that Nana (c. 1810-May 19, 1896) was supposed to be dead by then - the movie apparently has a fictional date of 1874.
I mostly remember Nathaniel Moreau from the movie George's Island. I remember when I saw the War of the Worlds episode I noticed his name in the credits. But I don't think I remember much about his role.
One good place to find movie filming locations is IMDB.
Here is a link to a list of shooting locations for The LIttle Vampire: <url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192255/locations?ref_=ttrel_sa_4</url>
One scene had an ariel view of a gothic style building built around all four sides of a courtyard. Scenes which were supposed to be that building were actually filmed in the great marble hall of a totally separate builting, Gosford House. I suspect that the great hall of Gosford House is too large to fit inside any of the wings of the building it was supposed to be inside.
<url>https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Gosford%20House,%20Longniddry,%20East%20Lothian,%20Scotland,%20UK&ref_=ttloc_loc_8</url>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosford_House</url>
Laddie seemed to be wearing a uniform. I suppose it is the uniform of military academy for boys, or the uniform of a school marching band. So maybe he was snatched when onl his way home from band practice, or was running away from a military school.
Or maybe the vampires killed a boy to get the uniform for Laddie.
That queston has been asked by others:
<url>https://moviechat.org/tt0080180/Zulu-Dawn/58c735935ec57f0478fa48aa/fatalities-on-set?reply=629a4c0dba25b139d0bcf5b6&animate=false</url>
Here is a link to a post claiming that an extra was killed filming he scene the scene with the gun carriage.
<url>https://moviechat.org/tt0080180/Zulu-Dawn/58c735935ec57f0478fa48f9/Saving-the-guns-an-old-slightly-morbid-question-finally-answered</url>
If that is correcct the trivia section at IMDB would be in error.
YOu may have heared the story about the Texas Rangers. A riot was reported to the Ranger headquarters with a request for rangers to stop it. but when the train arrived, only one ranger was on it. The officials asked why there weren't more rangers, and the answer was:
"One riot, one ranger.".
At least that is a populaar story.
<url> https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/09/one-riot-one-ranger-the-texas-rangers-of-the-old-west-is-the-oldest-state-law-enforcement-agency-in-north-america/?chrome=1</url>
And apparently the children have a rule "one mob, one child."
New Information.
I just looked at the IMDB cast list for Village of the Damned on May 25, 2022, and there have been some changes made sinc the last time I looked at it.
Both the alien children and the human children are listed together as "Village Child". Cleve Powell of "The Children of the Damned" is listead as "David Zellaby as a Toddler". Denis Gilmore (b. 1949) is listed as "Keith older brother", one of the human children.
<ul>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm<url>
And Oliva Gregg (1925-2003) is listed as "Voice of David Zellaby".
<ulr>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm</url>
I don't know who made those changes, or how accurate they may be.
New Information.
I just looked at the IMDB cast list for Village of the Damned on May 25, 2022, and there have been some changes made sinc the last time I looked at it.
Both the alien children and the human children are listed together as "Village Child". Cleve Powell of "The Children of the Damned" is listead as "David Zellaby as a Toddler". Denis Gilmore (b. 1949) is listed as "Keith older brother", one of the human children.
<ul>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm<url>
And Oliva Gregg (1925-2003) is listed as "Voice of David Zellaby".
<ulr>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm</url>
I don't know who made those changes, or how accurate they may be.
according to the trivia section on Zulu Dawn at IMDB:
<blockquote> Two South African extras were killed in an accident when a bus overturned </blockquote>
<url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080180/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv</url>
Obviously there weren't any buses in 1879 South Africa, so those extras should not have been killed while filming any scens or stunts if that statement is correct.
I discuss it in my answers to: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0085382/Cujo/60fb2c7b73aa86546d24c0d7/Does-the-dog-die </url>, especially the one dated May 14 2022.
I don't know if any of the dog actors from <i>Cujo</i> were in <i>Cat's Eye</i> if that is what you asked.
I discuss that in my answers to <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0085382/Cujo/60fb2c7b73aa86546d24c0d7/Does-the-dog-die</url>, especially the one dated May 14 2022.
This reminds me of the movie <i>A Night to Remember</i> (1958) about the Titanic.
The Titanic was a sort of a hotel as well as a ship, so its crew included many hotel workers. There is a scene during the sinking where several teenage bellboys are smoking in the lobby and their supervisor or someone tells them to stop smoking.
And I think that maybe the expresssion "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" should be replaced by "Telling the bellboys on the Titanic not to smoke".
When I saw that scene I was shocked that their boss was telling them not to smoke instead of trying to get them on a lifeboat. And also shocked that such young kids were already helping to support an industry which causes so much evil and suffering.
<blockquote>There are several references to other Stephen King works: James Woods watches The Dead Zone (1983) and inquires, "Who writes this crap?" The cat is chased by a foaming and bloodied St. Bernard, a reference to Cujo (1983) which was also directed by Lewis Teague. The cat is almost run over by a red Plymouth Fury with a bumper sticker saying, "Watch out for me. I am pure evil. I am Christine.", a reference to Christine (1983). Amanda's mother Sally Ann is reading Stephen King's 1983 novel "Pet Sematary" in bed.</blockquote>
<url> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088889/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv </url>
<blockquote> Along with Christine, he makes a cameo appearance in the 1985 film Cat's Eye, where he chases the titular cat known as General. This might hint that Cujo was back to his old, friendly self (or alternatively that the movie took place before the events of Cujo). While chasing General, General managed to hide in a barrell, which cause Cujo to think he lost him and then walks away. However, when General came out of hiding, he resumed chasing all the way to a flip over rowboat where he was trying to catch him. Unaware, General managed to escape by running in the back of a storage truck. When Cujo arrived at the warehouse, he lost of sight and decided to give up, not before looking at a man. </blockquote>
<url>https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Cujo </url>
It is possible that Cujo chases General in <i>Cat's Eye</i> sometime before <i>Cujo</i>. If Cujo was bloodied and foaming, the cat chase might be during the events of <i>Cujo</i>. Or maybe <i>Cat's Eye</i> happens after <i>Cujo</i>, where Cujo has been miraculously brought back to life and curied of rabies.
Or possibly the cat General in <i>Cat's Eye</i> is chased by a different foaming and bloodied Saint Bernard dog & not by Cujo.
Different fans may prefer different theories, but I think that most have to admit that Cujo surviving is the least probable & least possible one.
Pullen in this movie is not exactly a hisorical character, only sort of one.
On the 22nd, Chelmsford and Colonel Glyn took 5 or 6 companies of the 2nd Battalion of the 24th and much colonial cavalry, native contingents, etc. with them, leaving 5 companies of the 1st battalion, 1 company of the 2nd battalion, and colonial and native troops in the camp. Durnford arrived with part of his 2nd column before the battle.
Edward Bloomfield was the quartermaster (a sort of semi-officer position) of the 2nd battalion of the 24th regiment. He was born on 7th November 1875, and so was 43 years, 2 months, and 15 days old on 22 January 1879, rather younger than Peter Vaughn (1923-2016) who was 55 during filming. I note that Bloomfield enlisted at the age of 11 in 1846 and didn't become quartermaster until 1873.
James Pullen was the quartermaster of the 1st Battalion, which had its ammo wagons in its own separate camp some distance from the camp of the 2nd battalion. He enlisted as a private in 1851 and was promoted to quartermaster in 1877. Pullen was probably at least as old as Bloomfield, and his equal in rank, and had the same position as Bloomfield in the other battalion of the 24th.
So the "Boy Pullen" who seems to be Bloomfield's assistant in the movie has the same name as Bloomfield's counterpart in the other battalion. "Boy Pullen" is portrayed by Phil Daniels (b. 1958) who should have been 20 when his scenes were filmed.
So was Pullen a fictional character who happened by coincidence to be given the same name as a real person at Isandhlwana, or was he based on the real Quartermaster James Pullen and changed during script rewrites until he was very different from the real pullen?
I just measured and the doorwayss in my apartment are about 28 inches wide. The wealthy Dale the Whale should have been able to afford a fancier apartment which would probably have wider doors to carry furniture in or out easy.
If Dale had a diameter of 28 inches. He would have a circumference of about 87.9 inches or 7 feet 4 inches. Walter Hudson, the 7th heaviest recorded human, (1944-1991, with a peak weight of 1,197 pounds, had the largest waist at 9 feet 11 inches, which would require a diameter of 37.87 inches if he was perfectly cylindrical.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heaviest_people</url>
So maybe you are right. Fat is flexible, but it might have been quite painful for Dale to squeeze through all the doorways on his route.
Maybe they were right to say he couldn't possibly have been the killer.
I believe there was a recent episode with a flashback to Sassappis's lifetime and his struggle to become a storyteller, with a date onscreen of 1619 or 1629. Sassappis should have died soon after the flashback period since he looked about the same as his ghost does.
So if Sassappis was aged 20 to 40 in the flashback he would have been born about 1579 to 1609. And thus he would have been born about 413 to 443 years before 2022 (if ghosts happens in 2021-2022).