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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-24-2002, 10:09 PM:
Was just witness to what has to have been the most incredible fireworks display this city has ever seen. They were shooting off the stuff from 8 different locations which spanned about 3 to 4 miles in width. Absolutely incredible!
Rice Eccles is less than a mile from my home but you'd never know anything was going on over there!
Oh well, pack up, clean up, in three days you'll never know it was here.
Mark @ Home
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-25-2002, 01:06 AM:
Time to forget about Utah again. 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-25-2002, 02:07 AM:
Yup, you gotta love those foreworks. 
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Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 02-25-2002, 05:10 AM:
I was actually kind of pissed. We had to watch it from TV and just as it was about to start they cut to the news so they could show it to us tape delayed. Love that NBC olympic coverage.
If I had known they were going to do that, I would have gone out to see it.
Dave
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-25-2002, 08:35 AM:
John ya better watch out those Mormon Crickets are commin to get you.
And yes, they're are some in Utah that might say it foreworks!
Mark @ Old GTS
Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 02-25-2002, 01:34 PM:
And the seagulls... Paul
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!
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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-25-2002, 04:41 PM:
Waitasecond....You were gonna watch fireworks on TV?!?
Posted by Joe Beres (Member # 678) on 02-25-2002, 04:49 PM:
Mark said: "Was just witness to what has to have been the most incredible fireworks display this city has ever seen."Dave, you are in Salt Lake City, presumeably wanted to see the fireworks, decided to watch them on TV 
, and were upset when they were pre-empted for the news? You got me baffled there. If it mattered to see the fireworks live and in real-time, why not just go outside and watch them?
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-25-2002, 06:50 PM:
Dave's a little too far south to hvae actually seen them from his front porch like I did. I live less than a mile from Rice/Eccles stadium.
Mark @ NEW GTS
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-25-2002, 07:23 PM:
This is a blanket invitation to all film-tech member to come to New York City for the Fourth of July fireworks display on the East River and on the Hudson River. If you want to do it correctly go on a dinner cruise sit out on the bay entering New York's harbor. On your left will be the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island and the Jersey shore leading to the Palisades. The George Washington Bridge up the Hudson. In front of you is the Isle of Manhattan (and although sans the World Trade Center) the magnificent view of lower Manhattan which is still breathtaking). On you right and up the East River you can see the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, also the South Street Seaport. Fireworks surround the City, bursting in manificent's and creating a scene extreemly difficult to match, without using special effects.
Now having said that.... Go to Bristol, Rhode Island and join their Parade on the Fourth of July. Meet the Greatest Patriot that you will ever meet. Watch as she celebrates the birthday of the United States. Miss Saucy Sylvia.
The invitation has been extended......it's up to all 1025 of you, yes, including the lurkers...after all you are human, right?
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-25-2002, 10:13 PM:
Hey 
Isn't there an aircraft carrier parked in the river there someplace? Could we book that for the 4th of July party and show some films out there too? Films, then foreworks??? Well, Some in Utah pronounce it that way......At least they have not caught onto saying folms yet....You'd think they were from Kentucky or somethin.
@ Home
Posted by Paul Goulet (Member # 297) on 02-25-2002, 10:32 PM:
Bob says...""Go to Bristol, Rhode Island and join their Parade on the Fourth of July""...It IS a great parade!! And after the parade you can all stop by my house for a big 4th of July picnic~! I am about 45 minutes North of Bristol! Come Visit!
Paul Goulet
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-26-2002, 10:00 AM:
One of our co-workers was called for Guard duty during the Olympics told us that the mortors that were launched during the closing fireworks were launched from 12 foot cannons. The fireworks company claimed they are the largest in the world. Each charge was about 3 feet in diameter! Now I know why it shook my house!
Mark @ New GTS
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 02-26-2002, 03:07 PM:
Mark is correct on my location. From where I am you cannot see them but as specs in the distance. In order to have actually gone down there I would have had to have some more advance notice so I could change my families schedule for sunday evening, as we were having a very large party going on.My beef is that nothing was mentioned that they were going to cut to the news at NINE at night.
Plus, we would have had to get out the 25 foot ladder of non existence and climbed onto the room to see the small specs of fireworks, as we have way too many damn trees.
Dave
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 02-26-2002, 06:12 PM:
The Olympics: Just another TV show with a canned applause track.OTOH movie attendance was up compared to the same timeframe in 2001. As Ice Cube might put it, "It's All About the Product".
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 02-27-2002, 02:40 AM:
Oh Charles, did you even read that so called news snippet you referred us to? Even this so called news bit said it was choreographed, not canned. Canned is where it is pre recorded from a previous audience and used for the current taping show. Canned doesnt apply here.And as for the choreography of the audience, this isn't exactly breaking news. NBC reported this in the first ten minutes of thier olympic coverage on Feb 8, and this breaking news was posted to this site on Feb 22.
The choreography was done by organizers to make the spectators part of the show, not to make the event seem more than it was. Made the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as many events, very fun to be a part of and to watch as well.
Dave
Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 02-27-2002, 08:34 AM:
If NBC wanted to choreograph the audience noise, then why did they allow their announcers to yak so much that the viewers couldn't hear it?
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-27-2002, 08:40 AM:
Greg,
Having worked for a number of years in broadcast TV I seem to remember that it is an announcers job to yack. How they choreographed the crowd of 55,000 people I don't know, but it was pretty amazing if U ask me. I CAN guarantee you that some guy with cue cards was NOT part of the show.
Mark @ NEW GTS
Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 02-27-2002, 12:35 PM:
How old did Kiss look. Wow. Why is it that for every major sporting event lately, they define rock with a bunch of 50 year olds (Aerosmith at last year's superbowl, U2 at this year's). No wonder they had to choreograph the audience. ------------------
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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-27-2002, 05:28 PM:
Chad,
Apparently you didn't watch the whole show. There was something for everyone. But perhaps you were the only one that there wasn't something for. Chad, Perhaps a little more Whiskey and Beer and you'd have slept through it instead. A couple of good Martini's and you would have been more attentative!
Mark @ NEW GTS
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 02-28-2002, 03:16 AM:
Some of us old farts love KISS. And yes they do define rock. I don't know what you want as a definition of rock, but these new kids these days, just do not get what it all meant to us old fogeys.As for the YAK content, bob costas loves the sound of his own voice. I remember watching the tape delayed fireworks, and this is what we got to hear... "Wow, what an impressive display of fireworks, just amazing, and now while those are going on, lets go to leslie visser down on the stadium floor with some of the atheltes..." QUE???
Then there was the comment "and now we are watching the band called Bon Jovi, who are from New Jersey as I am told"...
Anyhoo, it was a hoot...
Dave
Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 02-28-2002, 06:25 PM:
Did anyone actually see Mark doing his little "Bambi on the ice" stunt in Utah, or did You all look at the foreworks just then...?
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 02-28-2002, 09:21 PM:
Per,Stop making me laugh..I have no sense of humor.