gettysburg the movie, who was there?

[m35gibson]

hello all,

i was just wondering how many of you from this site, paticipated as extras?
i thought it was a well done movie, great cast, funny, im now living in pa, just about 40 minutes from gettysburg, and im embarresed to say, i have not been to any reenactments matter of fact, back in the eraly 90s, when i was still living in mclean va,, some reenactors pulled in, just getting back from gettysburg, it was some big celebratiion/ anniversary , they had told me some of the actors were there, im thinking one might have been the gentelman playing general hood. anyway **** good movie.

kevin

[Army30th]

I was there. I was 24 at the time, and was 5'6" with a 34 inch waist. I'm 42 now. Waist is a little bit bigger than that now. It was a good time. Saw a lot about what goes into 10 seconds of film.....a lot of hurry up and wait!

But some of the actors were cool. A few other extras I knew personally, actually quit their day jobs to work full time as extras on this film.

After it was over, I got a call to do Andersonville, which was **** working for John Frankenheimer, but was still an experience.

[Tom Scoufalos]

Yeah, I was out for a couple days of it...half of my lifetime ago (18/36!). Still, it was cool. Jeff Daniels is a pretty tall dude.

[billwatson2]

Andersonville, not Gettysburg. 11 weeks in the field = about 35 seconds onscreen in tiny bursts. The fun part was being in the crowd greeting myself arriving at the prison while also in the guard tower over the gate. If I could be three places at once in the real world ...

Making movies, even as a core extra, kind of puts you off watching movies. For every Harrison Ford there are 50,000 people going through poorly paid drudgery and excruciating boredom.

I did, however, use the same portapottie as Jane Fonda. I'm not sure where that fits on the scale of lifetime achievements, though.

[sbl]

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I did, however, use the same portapottie as Jane Fonda. I'm not sure where that fits on the scale of lifetime achievements, though.

Remind me to tell you about the time I accidentally messed up Jane Fonda's slide show at Holy Cross College back in the 70s.

[Thad Gallagher]

Made it over for a few days during the filming of Little Round Top. I must have been about 15 then. Geesh, that was a while back!

[sbl]

A couple of guys from my old unit the 5th NHV went for the summer. One shows up mostly with the Confederates. I didn't go because the word was only young thin extras were wanted.

[Dunn Browne]

I was there for Pickett's Charge week and five days on Little Round Top before heading off to the 130th Antietam at Monmouth Battlefield in New Jersey. My first time on the Gettysburg Battlefield was stepping off the bus at the Virginia Monument dressed in a Confederate uniform for the filming of Pickett's Charge. I have many great memories from my time spent on the set, but that should be another thread. I still have the "The Killer Angels" tee shirt they gave us, but gave the hat away.

[Anders]

ws there on and off at age 16 or so....

Pards,

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo!

I wasn't.

I was one of the leaders of a small group of lads who boycotted the production due to Ted Turner setting the precedent for not wanting to pay reenactors as extras and give a
T-shirt or "certificate of participation" instead.

While it seemed a Hot Button Concern at the time... in the end it was a Fool's Errand, as it just made room for more lads to go to meet the demand.



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