Was going to get some DVD movies to watch over the Holy Week break and it occurred to me that there are so few movies about our profession. Lawyers & doctors have their Grisham & Crichton based movies.
The only movie that I remember about surveyors was - The Gentleman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain.
Any other movies that has significant shots about surveying?
"No Sad Songs for Me" - but good luck finding it. If you can't find it, drop me a note and I can burn you a copy. But please guys and gals, I hope I don't get a thousand requests. Maybe I'll have to start doing a "movie night" when I do workshops.
Also an Australian, John Brock, has gathered all sorts of clips from the big screen. I think there may have been a mag article or two about his efforts and he has presented a couple of sessions at state and national meetings. Try Google.
Jihn Brock paper
I remember John doing some compiling on the old board with the mambers.
http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2009/papers/hs03/hs03_brock_3234.pdf
John Brock's Surveyor Movie List
Jihn Brock paper
Thanks for posting those papers links. I am occasionally in touch with John and have provided him with some movie references that he had not found.
And BTW, he'll be in the states late this summer.
There Will be Blood, w Daniel Day Lewis has some survey scenes in it. Great movie too.
-V
"The Ghost and the Darkness" is pretty good. Val Kilmer is an Engineer, but it is still kinda survey related. John Wayne did a couple where he was a surveyor, the titles escape me at the moment.
-JD-
The Fighting Kentuckian 1949
7 years in Tibet
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No Sad Song for Me. The main character is a surveyor in the movie.
> Dont forget about this little "gem" that I helped produce :'(
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Road...
I helped 'produce' that epic also...Did you ever figure out the ending? (or the beginning or middle?)
Did the Surveyor die of lack of tobacco or from a knife wound?...Did the 'indian' die of a knife wound or a burst appendix?
DDSM:-S
Durzu is a great movie...have not seen it in years.
I may have missed this in the previous posts.
Wasn't the husband in "The Amityville Horror" a land surveyor?
His character was portrayed by James Brolin, I believe.
> Wasn't the husband in "The Amityville Horror" a land surveyor?
He was. The Amityville Horror was based on a true story, and the real guy was a surveyor as well. The did a remake of that movie, a couple of years ago, and for some reason they made the guy a general contractor in the remake. I can't believe they changed it...
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> No Sad Song for Me. The main character is a surveyor in the movie.
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DOH!
I glanced at this yesterday and remember thinking "hmmm no plumb bob in his scabbard, wonder where it is?"
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> DOH!
> I glanced at this yesterday and remember thinking "hmmm no plumb bob in his scabbard, wonder where it is?"
Haha...I missed that. When I looked at it, I was wondering if that was a transit and a level rod. It looks like the instrument isn't level, and it looks like he isn't setting over a point. What are they going to do stadia topo but no point to set on with known coordinates?
(hmmm...maybe that's why they don't make many survey/surveyor movies. Too many surveyors call up and say "what kind of surveying is that?")
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Left the bob in the bush 😀 I was never lucky enought to have a chaingirl that looked that good.B-) Jp
DDSM .....
The bob is hanging under the tripod!
-JDl
DDSM .....
By golly it is. And that means that the tripod is set up more level than it looked too, if you look at that plumb line.