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Updated 1-13--2002 |
The date is May 7th, 1976 and You Are There in SanDiego CA for a special advance preview screening of the new motion picture form MGM called Logan's Run. Ok, so you were not there, and you didn't get to see it, and shortly thereafter the studio hacked a ton of stuff out of the movie to make it shorter, and gain the film a PG rating. While the cut footage no longer exists (it vanished mysteriously along with the preview print) Fay Popejoy, a wonderful person and soon to be presidenent of the LROoF took along a cassette tape recorder into the theater and recorded all the audio track of this preview screening. You only had to wait 25 years to listen to this, so remeber this site brought it to you first. The movie is divided up into 5 MP3 files. Each about 25mb in size. You will need a MP3 player program to listen to them. And unlike Nixon's missing tape, you can listen to these 15 minutes. Now online again!
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New 1-8-2000 A complete shooting schedule for Logan's Run the motion picture. Find out what order the scenes were filmed in., see what scenes were actually shot, what locations were used, and what cast members were present. This fascinating document tells the entire story of the production of the motions picture noting delays and holidays! Fascinating reading for the hardcore Logan fan! A two and a half month schedule which was stretched out much longer. Compare it to the TV pilot Shooting Schedule New 1-8-2001 which was shot in only 12 days! |
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Cut Scenes from Screenplay April 30, 1975 |
Cut Deleted Pictures (Coming Soon!) |
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New
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Professional stunt woman Paula Crist rembers back to
her days as a stunt woman on the Carousel sequence in
Logan's Run the movie. This Real Video clip is 3.6 mb in
size. You can click
here to view it online (about 14 minutes long). This
segement was taped on August 8th 1990 at Unicon ( a
fantactic convention) held in the bay area. The segemnt was
originaly edited with pictures and some footage from the
movie to illustrate the concepts and sequences she was
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What will life be like... Another of the promotional items designed to promote the film was this double folded brochure. The brochure is reporduced here for your enjoyment. The narative in the brochure is especialy interesting as it does not seem quite sure where it is leading to. The picture of the inside and the back are larger so the text can be readable. Follow the links below to start exploring this item. Cover, Inside1, Inside 2, Back |
The
Logan's Run page created in 1994 was split up a year later into
several pages. This following was of the original text of the very
first Logan's Run page on the internet.
Logan's Run recieved the oscar for Special Effects at the 1977 Oscar ceremony. The effects in Logan's Run, while tame by todays standards, were quite elaborate. most impressive was the huge miniature city built to depict life in the future. One thing that audiences fail to grasp was the large scale that these buildings were actualy created at. To the right is shown a group of workers painting some of the larger buildings. Depth of field and filming minatures was not at easy as it is today.
Of special note was the backdrop of Sandman Headquarters which is
seen out the window of Logan's apartment. This backdrop (part
miniature... part picture) has shown up in a bunch of produtions. It
was even in Star Trek The Next Generation in the episode where Wesley
Crusher is at Star Fleet Academy... he had the same view out of his
wondow that Logan did!
One other thing the production team worked on was designing a way to
actualy show three dimensional images without the aid of 3-D glasses.
They tried endless ideas and concept for gadgets to give the illusion
of things floating off of the screen. In the end this concept was
droped in favor of just taking pictures of some holograms. I am not
quite sure why this was a motion picture first (though I think it was
the last) but evidently it was the first time holograms were used in
a motion picture.
If you are interested in the production and effects that went into
the creaton of Logan's Run you will want to pick up a copy of the new
(Oct 97) laserdisc version of Logan's Run as it contains a digital
reprint of the 1976 American Cinematographer which dealt with the
production and more specificly the effects and matte paingins used in
the motion picture. Strangely enough this section of the laserdisk
contains pictures whic were used in the article and a few which wer
not used in the article.
The
tale of Logan's Run is an off again / on again production story
rivaled only by the production of Dune. The original screenplay
(written by Nolan and Johnson) was written at the same time as the
novel. From the start the novel was written with a motion picture in
mind. The sequencing of the different locations were comporable to
those in any James Bond movie. The Original Screenplay was a
fantastic work, and would still make an excellent motion picture even
today. In the late 60's locations were scouted in South America for
some elements of the productions. At one point George Pal was signed
to direct. He stayed on the production for only a short time. Later
Irwin Allen was slated to head the project. That too fell through.
The project was shelved and pulled out several times over the next
few years. The screenplay was readers-digested into a very very good
shooting script which was then constantly hacked down (even while
shooting) to the sort of basic story you see on the screen.
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Michael York |
Logan 5, Sandman |
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Richard Jordan |
Francis 7, Sandman |
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Jenny Agutter |
Jessica |
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Roscoe Lee Browne |
Box |
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Farrah Fawcett |
Holly 13 |
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Michael Anderson Jr. |
Doc, New You Facility |
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Peter Ustinov |
Ballard (The Old Man) |
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Randolph Roberts |
2nd Sanctuary Man |
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Lara Lindsay |
The Woman Runner/Computer Voice Sandman Headquarters |
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Gary Morgan |
Billy , leader of the Cubs |
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Michelle Stacy |
Mary 2 |
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Laura Hippe |
Woman Customer |
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David Westberg |
Sandman |
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Camilla Carr |
Sanctuary Woman |
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Greg Lewis |
Cub |
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Ashley Cox |
Timid Girl (from the final scene with Ustinov) |
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Bill Couch |
Sandman (stunt co-ordinator) |
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Glenn R. Wilder |
Runner (stunt co-ordinator) |
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Denny Arnold |
Runner #1 (cut from film) |
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Roger Borden |
Daniel (a Sandman) |
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Johnny Haymer |
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Greg Michaels |
Ambush Man (Runner) |
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Bob Neill |
First Sanctuary Man |
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Candice Rialson |
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Johnny Timko |
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