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The Zeppelin Scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: When Harrison Ford and Sean Connery are on the zeppelin, the scene takes place in winter. However, the movie was filmed in the summertime, so the actors were drenched in sweat in their fur coats. So of course Connery’s solution was to do the scene with no pants on. When Ford saw that it worked, he followed suit.

Blood in Predator: Predator is one of the most famous villains ever, and to make him even more interesting his blood glows neon. But what did they make it out of? It’s not extra-terrestrial, it’s simply the juice from a glow stick mixed with K-Y Jelly.

Dream sequence in The Big Lebowski: Known as one of the most famous scenes in the film, it takes place after Jackie Treehorn drugs Lebowski. A surreal bowling-themed porno scene ensues. When Jeff Bridges slides between the legs of one of the woman dancers, his crazy grinning face isn’t exactly acting. The dancers played a joke on him and stuffed their shorts with pubic hair wigs. Only to make things better, this was the day Bridges decided to bring his family to set, making his reaction much more intense.

Woody’s horse in Toy Story: Sound effects are a huge deal in animation; everything has to “plop” or “vroom” correctly. The Toy Story sound team was on the quest for the perfect sound. To accurately portray a slobbering lick Woody’s horse gives the cowboy, they covered a man’s face with peanut butter and found a cow to go to town on him. The licking lasted for hours in order to get the perfect slurp.

Sirens in Swingers: Despite it’s classic fame, this movie was filmed on a tiny budget, and frankly everything was done by the seat of their pants. In the “You were so money and you didn’t even know it” scene, you might have noticed weird audio and strange angles. This is because it was all shot secretly with cops all around them demanding to see permits, because they didn’t have permission to be where they were shooting. You can even hear sirens in the background. They pushed off the police with stalling lies, such as telling them the producer had it but he just left, or they were waiting for the rest of their crew.

Lando Calrissian’s Helmet in Star Wars: The prop guys got a little confused about how to make Calrissian’s helmet, so they decided to clear their heads with a game of baseball. When one of the team members put a baseball glove on another’s head, a eureka moment occurred and the helmet in the movie is in fact a glove with a bunch of space stuff on it.

Ringwraiths from Lord of the Rings: The awful nightmarish screech these scary dudes from Mordor let out come from a much less terrifying origin. The sound team started experimenting with harbor seals, but someone said they just sounded like plastic scraping together. So, they switched to literally scraping plastic cups and bowls together, and that’s what you hear.

Spider-Man: Casting calls were difficult, but not for the people involved. Actual spiders were auditioned because they needed the perfect spider for the scene where Peter Parker gets bitten. The hard part was that the spider that resembled the vision the most was a black widow. Since this was too dangerous, an entomologist brought in several option to “try out.” Even after finding one, they still put makeup on the critter to make it look even better.

Krupps coffee grinder in Back to the Future II: At the end of the first film, Doc Brown digs through Marty’s trash for fuel, which is actually trash itself since Doc purchased a “Mr. Fusion” in the future to turn ordinary garbage into radioactive time travel juice. However, this super high-tech futuristic prop is literally just a coffee grinder. Nothing was even adjusted for its movie debut. It also shows up in Aliens and is used as a big part of the Nostromo spaceship.

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Unless you’re a photography buff, you probably have no idea what the people behind some of the most famous photos in the world actuall look like. US photographer Tim Mantoani, however, aims to fix all that with his epic “Behind Photographs” series.

Steve McCurry – Girl In Afghanistan
Steve McCurry: Peshawar, Pakistan 1984. I looked for this girl for 17 years and finally found her in 2002. Her name is Sharbat Gula.

Jeff Widener – Beijing 1989

Harry Benson – The Beatles
Harry Benson: Brian Epstein – Beatles Manager – had just told them they were number one in America – and I was coming with them to New York. 1964

Lyle Owerko – 9/11
Lyle Owerko: No one knew such beautiful warm day would serve as the backdrop to one of the most painful and confusing events to the heart of mankind. This picture is one small part of such a huge event that ties the threads of thousands of stories and millions of people together. Written words will never convey the whole scope of the event, nor summarize the sounds, the smells or even voices that are frozen in my memory bank from that day. I did the best job I could in photographing the 9/11 so that future generations would have the idea of the scope of what happened, to have the evidence how innocence can so easily be snatched away in a razor’s edged moment in time. My hope is that in time the wounds and pain will heal and that wisdom and peace will prevail among the darkness of this event, so that humanity could move forward into a time of grace and understanding.

Marry Ellen Mark – Ringmaster With Elephant
Marry Ellen Mark: I am holding my photograph of Ram Prakash Singh and his beloved elephant Shyama – taken in 1990. Ram Prakash Singh was the ringmaster of “The Great Golden Circus” – this photograph was done in Ahmedabad, India – This was part of my Indian Circus Project. I love India and I love the circus, so photographing eighteen circuses all around India was an incredible experience. Unfortunately Shyama died a few months after this photograph was taken – supposedly, he succumbed to poisoned chapatti – Ram Prakash Singh was heartbroken – me also.

Thomas Mangelsen – Brown bear
Thomas Mangelsen: Brown bear, Brooks Falls Katmai National Park, Alaska. July 1988. I pre-visualized this possibility (of an image like this) from watching documentary films about the bears at Katmai and seeing a photograph in Alaska Air Magazine of a group of bears here at the falls. At the time, I was on a flight to Anchorage working on a documentary film about Sandhill Cranes and had a week between shoots. I phoned the park headquarters from the airport in Achorage and asked about getting a campsite. They said they were all full – except for one site, that was near the bear trail and nobody wanted it. I told them I would take it. I spent a week on a small platform above the falls trying to captures this image. I would go most days before sunrise and stay until dark. During that time I shot 35 rolls of film of pretty much just head + shoulders of bears + sockeye salmon leaping the falls. Six weeks later I opened the yellow box to see this image. It was a nice surprise. I hadn’t known that I got it.

David Doubilet – Circle Of Barracuda
David Doubilet: Circle of Barracuda, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The school of chevron barracudas circled the diver three times and pow they were gone into a dark afternoon sea. The oceans of the world have no straight lines; geometry like a perfect circle is a rare thing, but these barracudas will do this as a defense. 70% of our planet is an ocean. It is a place of infinite hidden beauty. It is a place where light behaves in a very different manner. Global warming/ climate change is about water. Coral reefs where I have spent most of my life are very threatened now—not just from rising temperatures but from the change in ocean chemistry = This is a world where my partner Jennifer Hayes and I go into. It is most of our planet. A world without corners that may be gone by the end of the century.

May Pang – John Lennon
May Pang: Summer 1974 Long Island Sound NY. A relaxing time with his son Julian. I called this photo “Family Portrait”

Meil Leifer – Ali vs. Liston
Neil Leifer: Ali vs. Liston – May 25, 1965, Lewiston, Mayne

Bob Gruen – John Lennon
Bob Gruen: John Lennon asked me to come to his pentouse apt. on the east side of New York to take pictures for the cover of his ‘Walls + Bridges’ album. After we took a series of portraits for the record cover we took some informal shots to use for publicity. I asked him if he still had the New York City t-shirt I had given him a year earlier and he went a put it on and we made this photo.

Elliott Erwitt – Two Dogs With Owner
Elliott Erwitt: The picture I am holding was snapped in 1974 just across the street from my apartment in New York’s Central Park. It has been 38 years since that event and sadly I have lost track of the participants.

Lori Grinker – Mike Tyson
Lori Grinker: Mike Tyson – 1980, age 14. I began a project on young boxers when I was a student. The legendary Cus D’Amato told me Mike would be the next great heavy weight champion, he was right – and I continued on with him for nearly a decade. He was a trouble but sweet kid who veered off the good path he was led to with all that comes with being a celebrity in that world.

Nick Ut – Napalm Attack In Vietnam
Nick Ut: June 8, 1972 Trang Bang Village Kim Phuc 9 year-old girl South Vietnam drop napalm in her village.

Herman Leonard – Jazz Musicians
Herman Leonard: It was early 1948 at the Royal Roost in New York. An afternoon rehearsal gave me a unique opportunity to photograph many giants of jazz with my trusty 4×5 Speed Graphic. What a great career! To do what you love and be entertained at the same time!

Douglas Kirkland – Marilyn Monroe
Douglas Kirkland: This is from my Evening with Marilyn

Carl Fischer – Muhammad Ali
Carl Fischer: Muhammad Ali, New York, 1967

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Great things come from humble beginnings.

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The production of the iconic Guy Fawkes masks are pictured at a factory assembly line in Sao Goncalo near Rio de Janeiro.

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Girl with Pearl Earring Reproduced on an iPad Mini.

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The Goonies, 1985

 Grease, 1978

 When Harry Met Sally, 1989

Scream, 1996

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986

Donnie Darko, 2001

Thelma and Louise, 1991

Pretty Woman, 1990

Big, 1988

Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981

Fight Club, 1999

Taxi Driver, 1976

Rocky, 1976

Back to The Future, 1985

The Breakfast Club, 1985

Pulp Fiction, 1994

King Kong, 1933

The Godfather, 1972

Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966

Jurassic Park, 1993

The Shining, 1980

Forrest Gump, 1994

The Notebook, 2004

Scarface, 1983

Star Wars, 1977

Say Anything, 1989

Seven Year Itch, 1955

Titanic, 1997

E.T. 1982

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