Movie - Swing Shift - ww2 aircraft factory building theme -

[sabredriver]

I saw today on tv in oz a movie called Swing Shift, Golide Hawn , Kurt Russell etc about a woman working in a Douglas factory building SBDs...

They had some flying T-6 Harvards fly over a airfield and in facotry scenes they were shown building in some scnees around 30 aircraft .. and outside were same.

What i wonder is were these props or real aircraft they built or just what? They were made of metal and etc

[Mudge]

The movie is from 1984 so they quite possibly be real.

Mudge the researcher

[Jerry O'Neill]

I believe they used a bunch of T-6 fueslages in the factory scenes, dressed up as SBD's. I can't recall, but I think Jim Farmer or Bruce Orriss helped put that stuff together for the film. It had a great look!
Jerry

[snj-5]

Yes, Orriss supplied many of the props for that movie. My SNJ came
from a batch of carcasses that were left over from the movie. Story I
got is most of the stuff used in the movie came from the Sam Goldman
cache of airframes parts (held back on the east coast at the time).

There have been 2, maybe 3 static displays built up from parts left
over from the cache of parts left over from the movie. Most
of what was left over is corroded stuff (the stuff sat in the open
in Flordia prior to being surplused in the mid 1950's, then it sat
on the upper east coast 'till the late 1970's, then after being used
for the movie, the stuff sat in Hawthorne, CA for the remainder
of time).

Bela P. Havasreti