late summer
1998
A "forgotten" report
Somehow even the most exemplary projects on which I've worked manage to miss getting a report written up,
particularly the earliest projects.
Considering
The X-Files
was a show I never missed since its premier episode,
one would think I'd have written up quite a report.
Sadly somehow this was not the case.
Technically this was a single day shoot, filmed at Culver City high school in the gymnasium
(a second date of pick-up shots was added, filmed at 20th Century Fox).
The scene was the high school reunion scene at the comedy episode's climax.
The majority of the time I can be seen dancing; I started out with a rather pretty "wife," but the girl essentially vanished after a couple of hours
(turning up later and claiming she's simply gotten bored).
I had struck up conversations with an actress named Beth
(I cannot recall her surname)
My partner having done a bunk, Beth and I danced for the rest of the scene.
Before she vanished,
the former girl,
(who could have been considered a Trophy Wife),
was with me long enough for the action sequence, as it were, as the photos below reflect.
As it was a high school reunion, I did what I would have done: left my jacket on my table chair's seat, as I danced with my Trophy Wife and later with Beth.
Somehow, and I can only conclude this was after lunch, I forgot to put the jacket on the seat Right Away.
When the episode aired, my brother pointed out that for one shot while dancing, my suit jacket suddenly reappears on me, then vanishes again.
The pick-up shots
(when the power shuts down for a few moments),
were done a week or so later, in the same sound stage as the FBI office sets.
The FBI hallway walls contained framed letters, but on reading the set-dressing props, they were written very tongue-in-cheek, generally regarding various sexual harassment charges and such.
I am visible for like three frames during that sequence
(leaving the shot from sitting at a table):
99% of those ten or so backgroundes who were recalled stayed in the holding area on the soundstage well into overtime.
The episode aired on
The DVD is available.
"Rain King": Season Six (I'm in the blue shirt.) |
Dancing with Beth. (Early in scene, shot later in the night.)
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Dancing with Trophy Wife (Early in scene, shot earlier in the night.)
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Daryl Mootz (Clayton Rohner) takes a swing at Mulder (David Duchovney). My Trophy Wife and I notice.
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Swing follow through; my Wife grabs me tight.
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Mulder "helps" Daryl go down; my Wife still holding me tight just over Duchovney's shoulder.
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Daryl's girlfriend Cindy (Francesca Ingrassia) returns to him his prosthetic leg. Filmed later, I am now dancing with Beth (for the rest of the night and the rest of the scene.)
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Holman (David Manis) and Sheila (Victoria Jackson) approach Mulder and Scully (Gillian Anderson) (notice Beth is looking at them/the camera and notice that [mysteriously] my jacket is on me).
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Beth and I dance next to Scully and Mulder as the scene ends (notice my jacket is gone again).
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