Author: Huang Yan /Anitama Cover Source: Ultraman
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<h4>The ninth time the "Ultraman" photography scene, and then to the second quarter</h4>
In July 1966, Ultraman finally began airing on television, and the filming front was in the final stages of the first quarter. There are still 4 books left in the 13 episodes in the first quarter, and the 2 main articles are responsible for 2 books each, which are 1 Round Valley and 2 masters and apprentices of Manda, as shown in the following table.
After experiencing the crisis that Episode 1 "Otter Operation No. 1" could not keep up with the progress of the broadcast, there was no longer a big difference between the production shun and the screening shun from the 10th episode onwards. After that, until the end of the 39 episodes of the third quarter, there will be a difference between the production and the screening, at best, just like the 10th and 11th episodes are exactly reversed, and the same degree of supervision of the crew in the same block.
The first is the 2 books that Manda is supervising, "Bear Child from the Universe" and "Enigma Dinosaur Base". 2 Plots are the story of crazy people who trigger monsters, "Bear Child from the Universe" is a human brainwave delusion to turn the stones of the universe into monsters, and "Enigma Dinosaur Base" is a mad scientist raising monsters. In addition, since "Otter Q" to the first half of "Ultraman", Suzuki Shunji, who has been serving as the assistant supervisor of the special technical class, has moved to this class to serve as the assistant supervisor.
Manda was a first-time debut in 1966 after his official debut as a regular supervisor in "Ultra Q", but only played twice in "Ultraman", and this time it was once in the final set at the end of the game. Because he is busy with the production of "Fast Beast Buska" in the same period, the superintendent of this part of Ultraman also served as "Fast Beast Buska" during the production, and Manda is the only one. "Ultraman" has a performer sent by TBS as a supervisor, and a Toho supervisor who has continued since "Otter Q", and "Fast Beast Buska" has no TV station people. Therefore, Manda is mainly based on "Fast Beast Buska", and as for showing his skills in the Otter series, he has to wait until "OtterSevern" to occupy the main lineup.
The script for Bear Child from the Universe is Named Tatsuo Miyata, and is his only book in the entire Ott series, and the first draft of this book is titled "The Evil Actor from the Universe". Another copy of "Enigma Dinosaur Base" was written by Tetsuo Kaneshiro himself, which is also Kaneshiro's first script in "Ultraman", because the various copywriters who are the director of the literary and art planning office of the Round Valley Stunt Studio are too busy. The 3 books I have written before, "Balaji's Bluestone", "Monster Wanton Zone", and "Otter Operation No. 1", are all helping others to revise the draft.
Previously said that the full name of the Science Special Search Team is "Science Special Mobile Search Team", the prototype is taken from the longevity popular TV drama "Special Mobile Search Team" that has broadcast more than 800 words since 1961, and Miyata Tatsuo is the guiding script of this TV series. At TBS, there is also a TV series "Seven-Man Criminal Police" with the same criminal drama theme, so this time "Ultraman" simply commissioned him to write a single script. However, miyata's level of people of course also means that they are very busy, so busy that after writing the first draft, only Tetsuo Kaneshiro and Shozo Uehara of the planning office helped to revise the draft, and Miyata himself did not have time to meet with The Manda Supervisor to discuss it.
The monsters that appear in the 2 books are also transformed into money-saving transformations, Bermura transforms into the brainwave monster Yang Ge in "The Bear Child from the Universe", and Godzilla wears a scarf to become the Gilas of "Enigma Dinosaur Base". However, there is a difference, at first glance you may not be able to see that the brainwave monster Yang Ge is transformed from Bermula, in addition to adding mechanical tentacles, it is also colorful. The reason is still an old saying, in order to reflect and emphasize that "Ultraman" is a "color TV drama", a pioneering existence in all of Japan at that time. And Gilas, it was obvious, that the difference from Godzilla was almost an extra scarf. Objectively, at that time, it also made big news in terms of marketing and media, because this was the dream showdown between Ultraman vs. Godzilla.
The reason for the small changes is that Godjira is the monster of the parent company Toho, and Bermura is originally the monster of Round Valley Stunt Studios itself, so it is more bold to change it boldly. Although The father borrowed the child's things, although Toho did not want to rent, but at that time, there was a condition for borrowing Godjira, that is, you had to return it as it was. So only a scarf was added, and then the scarf was originally to be withdrawn and returned to Toho, so it was simply handled on the show, and Ultraman and Gilas ripped off the scarf in the fight. In addition, because Godzilla's puppet costume was originally based on the body of Gojira's royal actor Haruo Nakajima, of course, Gilas's actor is still Haruo Nakajima, and he has played a monster in "Ultraman" 3 times in one breath.
"Bear Child from the Universe" has a segment made into a comedy, and the picture is not cut (in fact, the whole episode is a comedy). It is the cosmic stone that can capture brain waves and visualize the imagination, and when it is 9 minutes, a reporter comes to experiment and then imagines a bride. The cameo actor is Yukio Aoshima, who starred in the 1964 TBS TV series "Let's Look At the Present", which is the TV series that Kushii is a producer, Ichi Marutani supervises, Akasa Manda supervises, and Tetsuo Kaneshiro scripts.
At that time, he was a big red, and in 1966, Qingdao also engaged in a big project, the movie "Zhong" was also produced, supervised, scripted, and starred by himself, and was selected for the International Film Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. Man Tian helped in the production of this piece, so he said in passing, you come to my supervision to play a soy sauce back, and Qingdao agreed to it because of the return of the gift. He participated in the Round Valley Studios more than once, and later turned to politics, and by the time Ultraman was broadcasting his 30th anniversary work, he was already the governor of Tokyo.
The biggest difficulty in photography is in the special technical class, because Ultraman has a water battle with monsters. Just before the "Coast Guard Order" also had a water battle, Ultraman and the monster water battle several times need to completely bury the head in the water, the water entered through the small gap in the mask and then could not go out on its own, it would accumulate more and more affect the breathing. Hikari gugu min can still endure, did not expect that immediately followed by "Bear Child from the Universe" has come again, making him out of the psychological shadow. GuGu confessed that although the most terrible thing is water and fire, water is even more terrible than fire, because once you are in a masked state, you have no place to escape.
Especially in the plot arrangement this time, Hayata team members took out beta capsules to transform in the case of falling into the water, so the shot to be filmed by the special technical class was Ultraman flying out of the water. Furutani toshi was ready underwater first, listening to the shouts of Hiroichi Takano's stunt supervisor outside, shouting 1, 2, 3 and then he jumped out. But shouting to 2 Furuya could not bear it, jumped out in advance and immediately signaled the acting artist Sadashi Numari to come over and help take off the mask to breathe. After the successful filming of this sentence, Furuya was completely afraid, and asked Takano to supervise that the scene of dealing with water really couldn't stand it, could he have less in the future. Takano promised him to go back to Kanejo, so he would not play Ultraman's water battle again.
"Enigma Dinosaur Base" is a bit more cheerful, this class has to go out to shoot scenes by the lake, and Manda supervisor calls Takano Supervisor and Furutani, who are special technical classes, to go for a ride. Yasuhiko Saijo, the co-star who played Ichihei in "Otter Q", lived in a nearby apartment at the time and was called by Manda to play a cameo as an angler. After all, Furuya was a descendant of Saijo in Toho, and he also came to say hello to him. However, Gu Gu can not be regarded as a cameo, pure dragon set of extras, playing a hotel waiter, the official release of the version of the camera has been cut.
Takano is also a dragon who does not steal the camera, and wears sunglasses to cover it tightly, but people who recognize him recognize his teeth. In addition, this special technical class used the footage shots taken by this class to synthesize the complete transformation process of Hayata team members for the first time, and it can only be transformed after being irradiated by a sufficient amount of beta lines according to the initial definition principle.
July 17th came in this location photography, and Manda can also use this to inspire the military, saying that we can watch Ultraman after shooting early and tonight! So that night they really watched "Otter Operation No. 1" in the hotel where they lived, an era when color televisions were still far from popular, and the hotel only had a color TV in the lobby. The cast and crew brought out totaled about 30 people, and they watched the small 14-inch screen in the hall, and then all the staff applauded excitedly, and the pure passers-by who happened to be in this hotel that day also stared straight.
This is followed by 2 books supervised by Round Valley, episode 12 "The Cry of the Dead Body" and episode 13 "Oil SOS", and this time it is also the supervision of this article and the special effects supervisor. Originally, "The Cry of the Dead Corpse" was assigned to the Manda Group, so the Manda Group was 3 books together, after all, there had been 3 books of the Iijima Toshihiro Group and 4 books of the No nagase Samadhi Group before. However, the Iijima group dragged on for two and a half months before it finally made a difference, and the No nagase group was even more urgently interrupted to let the screening of Ichi Marutani supervise shun the first episode of the first film, and after these incidents, the system of eating a fat man in one bite collapsed, and the usual mode of returning to 2 books and one block was restored step by step.
Episode 12 "The Cry of the Dead Corpse" is the second script written by scripter Keisuke Fujikawa, introduced by Toshihiro Iijima, and the first time to cooperate with supervisors outside Iijima, the original manuscript was titled "7000 Years of Sleep". Episode 13 "Oil SOS" was written by Tetsuo Kaneshiro himself, premised on the momentum of the finale of the first quarter, with large-scale close-up scenes of explosions and fires in the ocean and oil tanker and oil industry areas, and the title of "Oil SOS", which was previously scrapped by Shozo Uehara at the time of "Otter Q", was borrowed directly.
These two Round Valley works at the same time as the supervision of this article and the stunt supervision, setting a precedent for the works of the Round Valley Studios, at least for two reasons. The first one is because of the old topic, buying time, Takano Hiroichi stunt supervision is also too busy. The original main stunt supervisor was the field, to bear the special technology of "Fast Beast Buska" alone, and then the special technology of "Ultraman" became Takano alone. Kiyoshi Suzuki, a photography assistant in the special technical class at the time, testified that Eiji's father had a decisive trust in Takano, but people still have physical limits.
The second is that after all, the first brother himself also wants to try to be a stunt supervisor. It was also said before that because the aura of The Second Father was too strong, the first brother wanted to take a completely different path from the Father. Obviously, he worked in the special technical class of "Godzilla" and "Godzilla's Counterattack", and went to TBS to take up a job and enter the video work line, which is also the result of Daddy Amway, but he has worked hard in the company to become a literary and artistic performer, and has won a national award to become a signature performer of TBS.
Originally, I did not intend to participate in "Otter Q" in person, but when this film was called "Imbalance" before the name was changed, I became interested in one of the science fiction routes and fell into this pit. Now that it comes to "Ultraman", TBS requires the complete implementation of simple and direct monster films to attract children, and if the brother wants to take some road that is not illuminated by the aura of the father, then there is a possible option to double the supervision of this article and the special effects supervision. We also said that Dad personally tried the performance of this class video, and then found that he could not do it and gave up with self-knowledge.
Brother Yi, who had originally practiced in the special technical class and was born as a supervisor of this article, finally succeeded in serving as the supervision of this article and the supervision of special effects, which opened a precedent for this kind of operation that was gradually normalized in the Later Heisei era. However, the nominal stunt supervisor on the staff table is still written by Koichi Takano, which is the same as his habits in scripting, no matter how many ideas he has given to Kaneshiro, the name is still not put in. As for the specific actions of acting as a stunt supervisor, one of the things that has always been talked about by monster fans is that these 2 monsters are against the norm, and each is played by 2 actors. By the way, the last time Minoru Nakano reproduced the complete process of Hayata's transformation into Ultraman at the beginning of the game, and this time he reproduced the complete process of Ultraman becoming a Hayata player after the game.
In addition, of course, there is also an emphasis, and the set installation of the miniature model is also extremely grand, and this sentence ends with a large-scale close-up scene in the mountain factory. If it is the Toho Anvil Photography Studio, which is usually used to make blockbuster movies, it would be fine, but because the Otter series uses Toho's second-tier photography studio, the Tokyo Art Center, there is not enough space and height to set up the set installation for this demand. Technically, even if there is a curtain wall to disguise it as the background of the distant blue sky and white clouds, the ceiling is so high, the edge of the curtain wall is leaked at a slight distance, and the huge sense of monsters and Ultraman is gone. So I had to dig three feet into the ground, three feet in the literal sense, at the cost of damaging the hardware of the photography institute itself, to make up for the lack of height of the site, to be precise, I actually dug down more than one meter to about one meter and five meters.
One of the two people who co-played the monster is Yukihiro Kiyono, who played the popular monster Peggira who appeared twice in "Otter Q", and the other is Keiio Aragaki, who played Bermula before, and it is both of them in episodes 12 and 13. 2 people wear the same monster doll costume at the same time, and it is not long before the acting skills of the action are fierce and prone to lack of oxygen. In particular, episode 13 "Oil SOS" also explodes and plays in a field of fire, surrounded by high heat and rapid oxygen consumption. The brother's countermeasure was that he brought portable oxygen absorbers to the scene, which was far from popular at that time, so it was not something that could be easily bought on the rotten street.
Episode 13 "Oil SOS" focuses on close-up scenes where the oil-eating monster Besta lands from the sea and attacks the oil industry area, there is a series of explosions and pillars of fire and then form a fire, and the actual photography also requires a lot of gunpowder and gasoline. Once there was a real fire in the studio, it was discussed where to run, and on this day Koichi Takano also came to help, taking care of the dangerous goods. After the photography was completed, he took off the monster's puppet suit, and the 2 people inside were all pale and obviously hypoxic.
Special photography technician Kazuo Sagawa and his photography assistant Kiyoshi Suzuki overlook the explosion of the photographic oil tank from a high place, and the hot wind of the explosion blows in, and the hair and eyebrows are also burned out of Mars. As for Ultraman, there is a scene of running and jumping inside the fire field, and finally the monster Besta spits fire and hits Ultraman's shoulder back. Although it was a professional manipulator, Sadashi Numaza, and a special effects technician, a pan skill, a precision calculation and several tests, the burning and frying of course still had to be true. Several pillars of fire in front of him were as high as Gu Gumin, and the heat wave poured in through the gap in the mask from the surrounding area, and then the back of his shoulder had to be mentally prepared to hurt.
The next step was to march to the 13 books in the second quarter, and the first and biggest new elements in the second quarter were Yuzo Higuchi and Akio Shishiroji also entering the war. Two TBS-born performers who are responsible for the performance of "Ultraman Eve Festival" have finally joined the main film's supervising lineup. In mid-September 1966, the initial full scheduling for Episodes 14 to 26 of The Second Quarter of Ultraman was as follows.
Block 1: This article supervises Toshihiro Iijima
The first book, Four-Dimensional Monsters, scripted by Keisuke Fujikawa. (→ corresponds to the later historical facts of the screening shun episode 17 "Passport to Infinity") the second "Baltan Starman", the script Ofashi Kitano. (→ Corresponding to the later historical facts of the screening Shun Episode 16 "The Cotter Team Marches into the Universe")
Block 2: This article oversees Yuzo Higuchi
The third book, "Breakthrough Smoke", scriptEdo Taro Kaido. (→ corresponding to the later historical facts of the screening Shun episode 21) the 4th book "Terrible Highway 87", scripted by Tetsuo Kaneshiro. (→ Corresponding to the screening of later historical facts, Episode 20)
Block 3: This article oversees Round Valley One
The 5th book "Crushing the Invasion Base", scripted by Tetsuo Kaneshiro and Shozo Uehara. (→ later historical facts do not exist) The 6th "Little Giant", scripted by Thousand Bundles of Kitano. (→ later historical facts do not exist)
Block 4: This article supervises Akio Shimoji
7th Book of Horror Cosmic Rays, scripted by Mori Sasaki. (→ Corresponding to the screening of later historical facts Shun Episode 15) The 8th "Pearl Shell Defense Instruction", scripted by Sasaki Mori. (→ Corresponding to the screening of later historical facts, Episode 14)
Block 5: This article oversees No Nagase Samadhi
The 9th book "The Demon Returns", scripted by Masahiro Yamada and Ryu Minamikawa. (→ corresponding to the later historical facts of the screening Shun episode 19) The 10th book "Brothers from the Planets", scripted by Tetsuo Kaneshiro and Ryu Minamikawa. (→ Corresponding to the screening of later historical facts, Episode 18)
Block 6: This article supervises Round Valley Ichi, and the titles and scripts of the 11th and 12th books are undecided
Block 7: This article supervises Toshihiro Iijima
The 13th book "Tokyo Crisis One Blows!" ), script Keisuke Fujikawa. (→ later historical facts do not exist)
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