{"id":25678,"date":"2014-06-23T06:33:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T10:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25678"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:09:54","slug":"gort-klaatu-barada-niktojust-for-fun-here-is-a-rare-production-shot-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25678","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, here is a rare production shot from the 1951 classic &#8216;The Day The Earth Stood Still&#8217;. Peeking out of the forty pound Gort costume is 7&#8242; 7&#8243; Joseph &#8220;Lock&#8221; Martin. Before the film rolls, wardrobe will add his visor and gloves. Martin could only handle a half hour at a time in the suit because of it&#8217;s weight and inflexibility. There were two versions of it&#8230;the one he is wearing here has the lace up on the back for front shots, the other laced up the front for back shots.<\/p>\n<p>Principal photography for the movie was done on the 20th Century Fox sound stages and on its studio backlot, with a second unit shooting background plates and other scenes in Washington DC and at Fort Meade in Maryland. The primary actors never traveled to Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/693101184060767\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gort-Klaatu-Barada-Nikto-Just-for-fun-here-is-a-rare-production-shot-from\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/693104477393771\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto!&#8221; Just for fun, here is a rare production shot from the 1951 classic &#8216;The Day The Earth Stood Still&#8217;. Peeking out of the forty pound Gort costume is 7&#8242; 7&#8243; Joseph &#8220;Lock&#8221; Martin. Before the film rolls, wardrobe will add his visor and gloves. Martin could only handle a half hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}