Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

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  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: This is the filming of "Mohammad: Messenger of God." The photo is stamped Dec. 17, 1979, but it's unclear if it was ever published. ]

Today, we have four mystery cameras!

 

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Here’s mystery camera No. 1…

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… mystery camera No. 2 on a truck …

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… mystery cameras Nos. 3 and 4!

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… mystery talent….

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… and more mystery talent.

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10 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  1. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    The Wind and The Lion?

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  2. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:

    Three cameras are big, wide screen instruments. The fourth is sixteen millimeter, which suggests that its presence is there for a ‘the making of…’ documentary.
    It is possible that the picture is ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, though I doubt a doc was made of it.

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  3. LC's avatar LC says:

    Lawrence of Arabia

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  4. I’ll guess it is Khartoum, one of last films released in single film Cinerama, which I saw at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. It could be director Basil Dearden behind cameras 3 and 4.

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  5. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Whatever it is, crew’s hair length and clothing would seem to rule out anything shot in early-mid Sixties

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  6. Rob Case's avatar Rob Case says:

    Blazing Saddles

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  7. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    The hairstyle and clothing leads me to believe it’s the 70’s.

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  8. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Mohammad-Messenger Of God?

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  9. Barbara's avatar Barbara says:

    Ishtar?

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  10. Randy Skretvedt's avatar Randy Skretvedt says:

    Heaven’s Gate? Looks like the late ’70s – early ’80s.

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