Why is the paint on Andy Griffith's cars so dull?

On Car 54 they had red & white cars.

The TV show's police cars on location shots were actually bright red, but appeared the right shade of grey for a NYPD police car on black and white film. NYPD cars of that era were black and green with a white roof and trunk. This way, the filmmakers achieved a realistic appearance without alarming bystanders during production


The magic of the TEE-VEE box.

 

That song actually has lyrics.

It's called the Fishin' Hole.


[SIZE=-1]Well, now, take down your fishin' pole and meet me at The Fishin' Hole, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]We may not get a bite all day, but don't you rush away. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]What a great place to rest your bones and mighty fine for skippin' stones, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]You'll feel fresh as a lemonade, a-settin' in the shade. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Whether it's hot, whether it's cool, oh what a spot for whistlin' like a fool. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]What a fine day to take a stroll and wander by The Fishin' Hole, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]I can't think of a better way to p*** the time o' day. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]We'll have no need to call the roll when we get to The Fishin' Hole, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]There'll be you, me, and Old Dog Trey, to doodle time away. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]If we don't hook a perch or b***, we'll cool our toes in dewy gr***, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Or else pull up a weed to chaw, and maybe set and jaw. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Hangin' around, takin' our ease, watchin' that hound a-scratchin' at his fleas. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Come on, take down your fishin' pole and meet me at The Fishin' Hole, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]I can't think of a better way to p*** the time o' day.[/SIZE]

 

Tell Goober I said "hey" back......k............

 

Sam, when is the October festival (dates) ?

 

^ 6 years ago.
So you could talk about TV shows on the old Hamb? Funny stuff, "Citizens Arrressst!..... Citizens Arrressst"!

 

Is anyone interested in a real life online love story? My wife and I met each other through The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club a/k/a Mayberry.com (which is now iMayberry.com). I bought my first computer in March 1998 when I lived in San Diego. It came with a list of websites so I went to Mayberry.com and signed up. They ask for a little info so I told them that I was 46 and single and lived in San Diego. Every few days they put the info from the new members on the website and ask current members to greet the new members. A few days after I signed up I got an email from a woman in Louisville who was 45 and single who welcomed me to the club. We started corresponding by emails and then phone calls after a few weeks. That August I took a trip here and met her. In November I quit my law enforcement job and moved here and we were married on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend (November 28) about 7 1/2 months after meeting online. It was the first marriage for each of us. My Mom had died the previous year and I had been praying to her to help me meet a nice Catholic woman who was never married if possible so my prayers were answered. In a couple of months Nanette and I will be celebrating our 18th anniversary. She had never run a singles ad or responded to one either but when she saw my note on the website she said she felt the need to email me for some reason. A lot of people in San Diego thought I was nuts to quit a good job and move 2000 miles to Kentucky but it has worked out great and I'm glad I did. I know nobody asked for this story but when I saw the ***le of the thread I thought I would mention it anyway. Here's our wedding photo...

 

I am an adoption worker with Polk and Haralson County DFCS in Georgia. I just placed two sisters, ages 7 and 12, with an excellent adoptive family in Mt. Airy NC.

 

Very nice story Lebowski. Isn't it ironic that the Andy Griffith show brought you together but nobody on the show was married except for the Darling girl who was always chasing Andy.

 

As others have pointed out they dulled down the shine to prevent annoying reflections. I heard in the 1940s they wiped cars down with ****ermilk! It wasn't a popular thing to do because of the smell. No doubt they found better ways.

The reason the old 55 or 56 Ford was shiny, was that was kind of the point of the episode, I think it was Aunt Bea's pride and joy so they wanted to show it shiny to get across the impression this was not just another old jalopy. I suppose they must have set up the shots carefully so the lights would not glare.

 

Some guy in Calhoun GA has a beautiful black '55 Ford convertible that is supposed to be the one that Aunt Bea had. Saw it about 10 0r 12 years ago, nice car.

 

Charlene Darling was eventually married to Dudley Wash, but Otis, the town drunk was also married. Andy's housekeeper Rose got married and moved away which is when Aunt Bee came to live with Andy and Opie!
And of course Andy was a Widower

 

Reflections. Same reason they took the windshields out on the Beverly Hillbillies

 

Andy and Barney didn't have personal cars so they had to take the Mayberry girls out on the dusty back roads to strip search them!

 

From another thread a few years ago, actual dulling spray in use (note the label):

 

I HOPE YOU WILL ‘TAKE THE TOUR’ BY LOOKING THROUGH THE LIST OF THE BELOW MILITARY PERSONNEL. GREAT MEMORIES ARE IN STORE FOR YOU. Good Luck!

I can only send this to people of our generation, since most of today’s people don't
have any idea who these men were...and that's a pity.
They were all heroes in their own right and made America great in it's own right!
Back then Hollywood went to war!


Alan Hale - Jr. - US Coast Guard.
Aldo Ray . US Navy. UDT frogman- Okinawa .
Art Carney - US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach- D-Day.
Limped for the rest of his life.
Brian Keith - US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.
Buddy Hackett - US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
Burgess Meredith - US Army Air Corps.
Clark Gable - US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe .
Cesar Romero - US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the ***ault transport USS Cavalier.
Charles Bronson - US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner- wounded in action.
Charles Durning - US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times, so awarded the Silver & Bronze & 3 Purple Hearts. Survived Malmedy M***acre.
Charlton Heston - US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25. Aleutians ( Alaska ).
Chuck Connors - US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
Claude Akins - US Army. Signal Corps. - Burma and the Philippines .
Clifton James - US Army- South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star- Bronze Star- and Purple Heart.
Dale Robertson - US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under General Patton’s command. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission.
Danny Aiello - US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.
DeForest Kelley - US Army Air Corps.
Dennis Weaver - US Navy. Pilot.
Denver Pyle - US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalc**** . Medically discharged.
Don Adams - US Marines. Wounded on Guadalc**** - then served as a Drill Instructor.
Don Knotts - US Army- Pacific Theater.
Don Rickles - US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.
Earl Holliman . US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a year when the Navy found out.
Ed McMahon - US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)
Eddie Albert - US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa .
Efram Zimbalist Jr. - US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest .
Ernest Borgnine - US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c- destroyer USS Lamberton. 10 years active duty. Discharged 1941- re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor .
Fess Parker - US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall- joined Marines as a radio operator.
Forrest Tucker - US Army. Enlisted as a private- rose to Lieutenant.
Frank Sutton - US Army. Took part in 14 ***ault landings- including Leyte- Luzon- Bataan and Corregidor .
Fred Gwynne - US Navy. Radioman.
Gene Autry - US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China- Burma-India Theater.
George Gobel - comedian, Army Air Corps, taught fighter pilots. Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, to which George said "the **** didn't get past us.”
George Kennedy - US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor - stayed in sixteen years.
Harry Carey Jr - US Navy.
Harry Dean Stanton - US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa .
Harvey Korman - US Navy.
Henry Fonda - US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
Hugh O'Brian - US Marines.
Jack Klugman - US Army.
Jack Palance - US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber.
Jack Warden - US Navy- 1938-1942- then US Army- 1942-1945. 101st Airborne Division.
Jackie Coogan - US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines.
James Arness - US Army. As an infantryman- he was severely wounded at Anzio - Italy .
James Gregory - US Navy and US Marines.
James Stewart - US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General.
Jason Robards - US Navy. was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalc**** . Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines - surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
John Carroll - US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa . Broke his back in a crash.
John Wayne - Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries- (from playing football @ Southern Cal) - he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army- Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets ‘honorable mention’.
Jonathan Winters - USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner- Battle of Okinawa .
Karl Malden - US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force- NCO.
Kirk Douglas - US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged.
Larry Storch . US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.
Lee Marvin - US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan . Buried in Arlington National Cemetery - Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.
Lee Van Cleef - US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper.
Mel Brooks - US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Mickey Rooney - US Army under General Patton’s command. Bronze Star.
Mickey Spillane - US Army Air Corps - Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot.
Neville Brand - US Army- Europe. Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Norman Fell - US Army Air Corps.- Tail Gunner- Pacific Theater.
Pat Hingle - US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall
Paul Newman - US Navy Rear seat gunner/radsioman- torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill .
Peter Graves - US Army Air Corps.
Randolph Scott - Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, during World War I.
Robert Altman - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.
Robert Mitchum - US Army.
Robert Montgomery - US Navy.
Robert Preston - US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer
Robert Ryan - US Marines.
Robert Stack - US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
Robert Taylor - US Navy. Instructor Pilot.
Rock Hudson - US Navy. Aircraft mechanic- the Philippines .
Rod Serling - US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila .
Rod Steiger - US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.
Ronald Reagan - US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps
Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration.
Russell Johnson - US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines .
Soupy Sales - US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.
(that’s the ship which transported Elvis Presley...who was a tank driver in the U S Army from 1957-1960...to Bremerhaven , Germany . In 1959 I also traveled from Southhampton , England to New York on the USS Randall.) [ Chuck Allen...USAF aircraft radio repairman 1962-1966) ]
Sterling Hayden - US Marines and OSS . Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia . Silver Star.
Steve Forrest - US Army. Wounded- Battle of the Bulge.
Steve Reeves - US Army - Philippines .
Ted Knight - US Army- Combat Engineers.
Telly Savalas - US Army.
Tom Bosley - US Navy.
Tony Curtis - US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan .
Tyrone Power - US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.
Victor Mature - US Coast Guard.
Walter Matthau - US Army Air Corps. B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.
Wayne Morris - US Navy fighter pilot- USS Es*** . Downed seven Japanese fighters.
Wiliam Holden - US Army Air Corps.
William Conrad - US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.
And of course we have Audie Murphy, America 's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor.

 

Re the George Gobel story - this is the one everyone remembers-

Air force story begins about 12:20

 

Not trying to get too off course here, but another car with dull paint that was on film. IIRC, This was a rush job the movie people were happy with. We won't get into the red abomination.

 

This list is amazing. Deserves a thread of its own on Memorial Day.

 

Lebowski, it pains me to say it - pains me to say it about anybody - but I like you!

 

Great story, Lebowski..............now change your avatar photo, it's gettin' on my nerves.

 

Are you sure that's not room deodorant?

 

Exactly. They still make it. On set right now, just used some. They also make "dirt", "rust", "dust", "cobwebs" all in a can. That's also why most people's gl***es on old films don't have lenses.

 

We also use Aquanet because it's cheaper. I can't tell you how much of it I scrubbed off of picture cars with Windex and a paper towel. Remember this before you rent your car to the motion picture industry.

 

Looks like this stuff comes in a bunch of effects!

 

If only they made one containing "interesting", and they sprayed it on everyone and everything that they filmed, I might watch TV more.