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Pam
At first I agreed w/ you thinking this is not QE2 but then I noticed the raised sofa section to the right - this COULD be QE2 in the Queen Mary suite but the bed seems too close to the raised portion - but if it was taken in the 70's perhaps the configuration was different.
Any other comments or thoughts?
[ 03-07-2007: Message edited by: Jekyll ]
This hallway does not look like anything I have seen of QE2 in the era. No handrail, no ceiling panels, at the end it looks like a window with venetian blinds and a sill - yet the lights match.
[ 03-07-2007: Message edited by: PamM ]
They don't even have card keys now!. Yes you carry your ship's "ID & Buy Everything" card, but you must also use a conventional old-hotel-style key with fob with cabin number on it, to enter your cabin. A nuisance these days.
tidbit:
The ocean liner movies of the '30's and '40's were done on sound stages. The shipping lines 'paid' the studios to have the exterior footage of their ships in the movies.
The studio execs used the cabin corridor sets for trysts with the secretaries and starlets.
I would think it real hard to get all the sound, lighting, and camera equipment in a small ship cabin or companionway.
1) The cabin LOOKS like the Queen Mary suite on QE2 - but the bed seems to close to the elevated living area2) QE2 has NEVER had cabin keycards3) The hallway COULD be the Signal Deck hallway of the 70s (but I don't even think ANY ships had keycards in the 70s)
So perhaps it was a sound stage mockup using the Queen Mary Suite as inspiration.
The cabin clearly had a missing wall to accommodate the crew. The sound and lighting was also better than a real cabin would offer.
This was part filmed aboard, as the heat generated by the lighting equipment set off the sprinklers. Just trying to work out for someone curious, what they did actually 'rescue' from the attempt... seems very little. There are sailing away shots and ?? [I always forget the name] disembarked in Le Havre.
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