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🗓️ 23 July 2024
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July 23, 1982. Three people are killed when a helicopter crashes on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
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0:06.0 | As a member of NoisorPlus at noisor.com or in Apple Podcasts, |
0:10.6 | or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's the middle of the night on July 23, 1982, on a movie set in Valencia, California, 30 miles north of Los Angeles. |
0:34.5 | There's a hive of activity. Keeping out of the way by the craft service table, 53-year-old actor Vic Morrow sips on a cup |
0:41.8 | of coffee. |
0:42.8 | He needs the caffeine for these long night shoots, but it isn't helping him calm his anxiety. |
0:48.3 | As a veteran television actor, Vic knows he can remember his lines, but he's being called |
0:53.0 | to do much more than that. |
0:54.7 | Tonight he'll be filming the biggest stunt of his career. |
0:58.1 | This area is usually home to a quiet, shallow river in the California Mountains, |
1:02.7 | but tonight it's been transformed by Hollywood set directors into the jungles of Vietnam. |
1:07.7 | The film in production is Twilight Zone, The Movie, |
1:12.3 | and Vic is playing a racist bigot who finds himself supernaturally transformed into the people that he hates. |
1:17.4 | Tonight's big scene is when his character redeems himself by rescuing two small children |
1:21.9 | from an American attack during the Vietnam War. |
1:25.5 | A production assistant tells Vic the crew's almost ready to begin |
1:29.1 | and then leads him to his mark as lighting and pyrotechnic experts make last-minute adjustments. |
1:34.9 | The air will be filled with explosions as the helicopter flies over Vic, |
1:39.0 | who will be waiting through water with two children tucked under his arms. |
1:43.2 | Vic takes a moment to say hello to his two young co-stars, |
1:46.0 | Micah Din Li and Renee Sinyi Chen. |
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