WOW! Roddy McDowall’s Home Movies…’Planet Of The Apes’
Thanks to Mike Clark for sending this amazing link to us. The first 8 minutes show Roddy being transformed into “Cornelius” in the makeup trailer at 20th Century Fox, but then he takes a helicopter to the set which gives us a great look at the Fox studios.
Mike points out that at 9:20, you can see the full-sized ‘Lost In Space’ Jupiter II mockup from the 3rd season episode “Visit to a Hostile Planet.” At the oceanfront set, we almost all of the principals, including Charlton Heston. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCm74dnwujk
Roddy McDowall’s home movies showing Don Cash applying his Cornelius make-up for original “Planet Of The Apes” (1968) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143587/
Of course, we now know that pictures shot by a monkey cannot by copyrighted.
Speaking of Lost In Space, John Chamber’s work was given a sort of “test run” in the “Fugitives in Space” episode of LIS, which aired about a month before the premiere of “Apes”… Michael Conrad appears as “Creech”, and would later be featured in an episode of the television version of Planet of the Apes. He went onto greater fame in Hill Street Blues as Sgt. Esterhaus.
One of the most oft-confused stories is that John Chambers was responsible for designing Spock’s ears…..when Leonard Nimoy himself has clarified that in fact it was original Star Trek makeup artist Fred Phillips who designed the ears.
A couple more connections between LIS and Apes… in this shot, you can make out one of the Jupiter-2’s landing struts in the spacecraft debris from Beneath The Planet Of The Apes….
And one more: The skeleton of the torch from the Statue of Liberty in the first Apes film, seen here in the LIS episode “Junkyard of Space”.