Maybe it was Davy. I watched them both, and I guess if DC was earlier, maybe it was him.
What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?
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There is a scene from Davy Crockett at the Alamo where the enemy has moved a cannon closer to the Alamo. To put the cannon out of action Fess parker took old Betsey to the wall and shot the gunner and the loader on the cannon in 5 second of film time. I have yet to load my long rifle in 5 second , and Crockett did not take Betsey to the Alamo. Oh yeah Buddy Ebsen played Georgie Russel Crockett's side kick in the Disney version not Jim Bowie. Give them what fer Davy!
This is from Wikipedia's description of the plot of the movie.
" The caravan of settlers in their covered wagons would follow Wellmore's ox-drawn train of Conestoga wagons, as the first major group of settlers to move west on the Oregon Trail"
I don't think John Wayne shot an Indian with a ramrod in this movie.
What about Rifleman the TV show, wasn't the guns a little to modern for that suppose time it was taken.
I will watch Rifleman tonight, think he is using a 92 Winchester.
the rifle used was not invented for 4 more years in the future. They also dubbed in an extra shot fired at the opening.
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Crocket series was copyrighted by Disney so the Daniel Boone TV series was made with Fess Parker playing that role.
I'll just generalize, 1st noting how easy it seemed to be to get a fire started out in the wilderness. Watch the old TV westerns and they ride out of town with flat saddlebags and a blanket roll. Around the campfire they have a fry pan, coffee pot and metal plates plus the food and water. And lastly, it seems likec almost every gun in every movie or TV show has 3 times the firepower than yours or mine.
ever notice in old westerns how the horse's hooves went clomp on the old sound stages?
How long ago was the old west? Do you know? The last recorded stagecoach robbery was in 1915. My dad was born 6 months later. My mom was born in 1925. Wyatt Earp died 4 years later in 29. Hollywood spins us a tale don't they.
Gunsmoke and all the mountains that Matt rode through going from Dodge City to Hays, KS.
I haven't read through all 8 pages; however, I like it when in 'The Patriot' Gibsons Rebels ambush the Red Coats in the pouring rain and every single flintlock goes off flawlessly.
In Al Pacino's 'Revolution', In the 1st battle scene there's a close up shot of the battle line. The nearest rebel has a Snyder Conversion Rifle.
Semper Fi.
In Al Pacino's 'Revolution', In the 1st battle scene there's a close up shot of the battle line. The nearest rebel has a Snyder Conversion Rifle.
Semper Fi.
have you noticed in the movies where a sword being drawn always makes a metsl on metal scraping sound? Even when the person drawing the sword is supposed to be quietly drawing it out. Plus the scabbards are all leather or cloth or even none too.
More modern is the actor always racks the slide on their pump shotgun before making their move. In some movies they do it like 8 or more times with a shotgun that only hold six shells. For example getting ready to go around a corner of a building.
More modern is the actor always racks the slide on their pump shotgun before making their move. In some movies they do it like 8 or more times with a shotgun that only hold six shells. For example getting ready to go around a corner of a building.
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Do any of you older fellas like me 59 remember the Bi Centennial with Conestoga Wagons and the settlers walking behind and alongside of them. The wagon train I think started in Reading Pa. And came down RT.724 all the way into Valley Forge. It was a site to see when your a little guy back then.
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Though not strictly a movie or a tv show, some of the History Channels' programs show reenactments of historical events. On one such, an even that occurred during the Civil War showed both Union and Southern troops carrying M1 Garands. Another reenactment showed WW2 American troops carrying either Springfield or Eddystone turn bolts. Even saw a match lock in an episode where a flint lock should have been used. You would think that the prop department, or someone in production would at least make an effort to get things right. But then. I suppose, unless you are a 'gunperson' one gun looks pretty much like another.
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Living in Texas have visited the Alamo a time or two. On one such visit, I saw what was alleged to be the rifle that Crockett used at the Alamo. It was about 4-41/2 feet long percussion not flintlock. Plus, it appeared to be .32 caliber. A kids' rifle, in other words. Nothing Crockett would have been carrying at the time. I managed to upset the guide by pointing this out. I managed to further anger said guide by pointing out that a short 'artillery' sword labeled as having been carried by Mexican troops, was actually a 'wasp waist' Roman gladius. I was told that if I wasn't happy with the exhibits that I really didn't need to comment on then.
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A strange substitution, considering a Napoleanic era artillery sword would be far easier to find than a Mainz type gladius.
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Are you sure it was a powder horn, and not a signal horn which hunters and farmers used like a bugle?
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Several times I have seen modern buildings and high lines in the background of several western movies.
There is a cannon at the Alamo mounted upside down and with no trunnions. I bet you could play "stump the guide" with that.
