this is truly beautiful, coverage of a scene, from reaction shots, to closeups of all the principals and the clap board used for the editors and the point of view from the actors, its a lesson in film making
Thanks for the clip. Really is allot of work to make. I grew up watching Gunsmoke and at 62 I still watch everyone I can find, or get a chance to watch. I never get tired of them. James Arness was a great person and actor. I really liked him in "Hondo" with Wayne. Arness, for his bravery and service to country, IS a true hero.
If I remember correctly, he took a machine gun bullet in the foot at Anzio, Had a small but noticeable effect on his gait the rest of his life. Well they didn't shoot horses of Arness' stature.
@@Arbeedubya That sounds about right. 'Hey, you're taller than anyone else... if you drown we'll all know we need to get in closer'. Might like to think he later gave msg of 'Thanksalot for using me as depth gauge and ensuring I was first to take fire' but given who he was, quite sure he didn't. Duty, purpose, and class
The last one or two seasons were filmed at the Old Tucson film set,Got to watch for a whole afternoon,Saw Jim ride right by me, still remember what a big man he was, saw doc and Festus too.
I recently watched this episode, and was amazed that both John Anderson & James Arness performed their own fight sequence here without stunt doubles! The scene turned out to be very convincing. James was 6'-7" tall, and weighed 235 lbs, so it's doubly impressive that he displayed such athleticism here. This & many other Gunsmoke episodes were first-rate TV entertainment that depicted frontier life with authenticity, the reason for the show's longevity.
I would submit that the shows' longevity and even popularity today is a result of the uniquely American values that it embodies - a no nonsense sense of right and wrong. As those values are degraded and even spit on in an agenda driven society, hopefully the series will always maintain at least a few incorruptible hardcore devotees. Btw, athleticism has very little to do with size in healthy people (non obese). Some people are born with it, others not, regardless of size.
@@emansnas You're preaching to the choir! I'm also a tall, big guy, and was quite athletic into my 40's, but have never been fond of hitting the ground because of raw physics that really doesn't affect smaller guys as much. F=m*a. As for James, I take into account that he suffered from war injuries to his leg that was shot up in battle, *and* was huge.
@@Tonetwisters Color TV was in its infancy back then, so the production values of costumes and technology were not so well developed as with B&W. It seemed a bit cartoonish.
@@SIMKINETICS Good point on the effects of larger guys hitting the ground. On the other hand, that small guy who ran into us on the field is the one who got bounced up into the stands. People who wonder how an ant can lift so much don't get it do they. My understanding is that Arness took a machine gun bullet in the foot (accounts vary) at Anzio and the wound never healed properly (yeah bullets tend to cause irreparable damage to complex bony structures). In any case the old wound was bothersome and caused a barely noticeable limp. Who knows, maybe that occasional physical irritation/pain was an asset to his acting when emoting on the bad guys. Glad he had a good long run, a very deserving fellow.
I was a whopping nine years old when this was filmed. I don't think we even had a TV set when this show first began, as we had just moved from a four-room tarpaper shack in mid-1953 ...
I believe it was John Anderson in an episode of Star Trek Next Generation where he plays an omnipotent alien who wipes out a whole civilization just by a thought! He was an outstanding and versatile actor.
It cracks me up when a criminal is lying to Matt Dillon and instead of tipping his hand and calling him a liar before he can prove it, Matts' only response is to just stand there and say Ummm humm. Most people use that response to agree with the person they are talking with, but Matt Dillon NEVER uses it that way. He never says umm, humm, to agree with what he has just been told. Viewers always know that and most of the liars probably knew it too. This is probably one of my favorite lines that is frequently repeated in Gunsmoke and I sometimes wonder if this is something James Arness just started doing or was that written into the scripts (?) It drives my wife crazy when I do this to her which always give me a little chuckle. WRZ 2021-07-10
The only thing I have to say is I see their hats fell off. There's an episode of the Lawman where Marshal Dan Troop and an outlaw are fighting and they dive out of a window on to the boardwalk and they still have their hats on. Same thing happens on Wells Fargo Days where Dale Robinson is fighting somebody and jumps off a stagecoach in his hat doesn't fall off.
A lot of hard work for a few minutes. What a pity time won't wait; they should have made a few thousand of them. In 1957 I was still at College having a hard time, at the age of 17. Where have all those years gone ? I'll have to start packing soon, I'm in the last wagon.
I agree. It also requires a lot of time too. I've seen TV production crews spend an entire 8-hour day just to film one 2-minute scene for a single episode.
@@christophertsiliacos8958 Christopher looking at that time in our culture when this was filmed, the people and the general attitude of the time period-the 1950's I feel like jumping through my computer screen and into that time and never coming back.
I often wonder when you see fights like this with the actors doing their own stunts, how many bruises they end up with when filming is finished. OK, they aren't taking punches but they do take some flyers on to the (very hard) ground and even if you have been trained and are used to relax and rolling with it, some of the landings have got to hurt. And being dragged across the ground by one arm is a sore shoulder if nothing else. Anybody out there in the know?
Yes, Lee Majors did most of his stunts on Six Million Dollar Man and he said it aged him 20 years faster... same for James Garner. He quit Rockford Files due to the physical strain.
Wonder if anyone who watches all the gunsmoke episodes noticed this mistake. In the episode "unloaded gun" when chester unloaded Mats gun you could plainly see he unloaded six bullets. Later in the episode the camera zoomed in on the bullets that were left on the table verifiying mat had not reloaded the gun,, well there were 7 bullets on table in this scene.
What did Chester Goode keep in his left back pocket??? Maybe a wallet? Never seen anybody on Gunsmoke (or any western for that matter) pull out a wallet.
Some stores would rent out space upstairs for extra money. Doctors, attorneys just starting out or even a seamstress might be using that space, cheaper rent.
50s when gunsmoke was greatest, a younger better looking matt dillion, and his side kick chester the best, when he left got stale, and Arness the alcoholic face there after, but still the best tv western
There is a certain kind of woman that cries out for the bitch slap she knows she deserves. It is a test for her man. One you'll have to learn to recognize if your ever going to be an adult.
@@emansnas There are certain men who should be bitched slapped because they deserve it too. Maybe you'll learn this if YOU ever become an adult! You probably want to slap me for speaking against you. Have some pride in yourself and then you will see women as human beings - not punching bags!
@@judyharrison9844 Just had to dive right in didn't you. Hmm.. your comment indicates a distinct lack of perception regarding mine... which stands. But thank you for tendering evidence in support of my observation... and no I don't feel any need at present to slap you (hope that doesn't disappoint), hell I don't even much know you. Though I may resort to a fly swatter if necessary. Has this gotten the appropriate 'give a shit' msg across... maybe you'd like to take a cool down lap lol. Yeah, I tried the nice guy thing once... but it didn't work out... but then it never does without an edge does it.
Obviously. The whole point of this video is to show the various angles and takes (including those with stuntmen) needed to make a complete scene. The final edit is shown at about 13:15, so you can see how they combined the actors' takes with the stunt doubles' takes to make a complete scene that will be included in the actual broadcast.
this is truly beautiful, coverage of a scene, from reaction shots, to closeups of all the principals and the clap board used for the editors and the point of view from the actors, its a lesson in film making
Where Do They Keep The Clapperboard?
To think this is just one scene. I'm amazed how quickly they get each episode done!
Thanks for the clip. Really is allot of work to make. I grew up watching Gunsmoke and at 62 I still watch everyone I can find, or get a chance to watch. I never get tired of them. James Arness was a great person and actor. I really liked him in "Hondo" with Wayne. Arness, for his bravery and service to country, IS a true hero.
If I remember correctly, he took a machine gun bullet in the foot at Anzio, Had a small but noticeable effect on his gait the rest of his life. Well they didn't shoot horses of Arness' stature.
@@emansnas I remember reading that his company commander had him get off the landing craft first to make sure the water wasn't too deep.
@@Arbeedubya That sounds about right. 'Hey, you're taller than anyone else... if you drown we'll all know we need to get in closer'. Might like to think he later gave msg of 'Thanksalot for using me as depth gauge and ensuring I was first to take fire' but given who he was, quite sure he didn't. Duty, purpose, and class
100% on 🎯 John...dont make em like that anymore!
@@emansnas They Use Stage Combat Fighting
I still watch Gunsmoke everyday reruns and it still bring back memorise
Really exemplary job of showing the history of making an episode of Gunsmoke! Thanks for putting this up!
Gunsmoke is my favorite Western. Great cast.
The last one or two seasons were filmed at the Old Tucson film set,Got to watch for a whole afternoon,Saw Jim ride right by me, still remember what a big man he was, saw doc and Festus too.
Really cool to see how its done. Love Gunsmoke !!
Wow. This is fascinating. So much work went into making a 30 minute show!
You mean ... it wasn't real?!?
I recently watched this episode, and was amazed that both John Anderson & James Arness performed their own fight sequence here without stunt doubles! The scene turned out to be very convincing. James was 6'-7" tall, and weighed 235 lbs, so it's doubly impressive that he displayed such athleticism here. This & many other Gunsmoke episodes were first-rate TV entertainment that depicted frontier life with authenticity, the reason for the show's longevity.
I would submit that the shows' longevity and even popularity today is a result of the uniquely American values that it embodies - a no nonsense sense of right and wrong. As those values are degraded and even spit on in an agenda driven society, hopefully the series will always maintain at least a few incorruptible hardcore devotees. Btw, athleticism has very little to do with size in healthy people (non obese). Some people are born with it, others not, regardless of size.
But I seemed to remember enjoying it much better in B&W ...
@@emansnas You're preaching to the choir! I'm also a tall, big guy, and was quite athletic into my 40's, but have never been fond of hitting the ground because of raw physics that really doesn't affect smaller guys as much. F=m*a. As for James, I take into account that he suffered from war injuries to his leg that was shot up in battle, *and* was huge.
@@Tonetwisters Color TV was in its infancy back then, so the production values of costumes and technology were not so well developed as with B&W. It seemed a bit cartoonish.
@@SIMKINETICS Good point on the effects of larger guys hitting the ground. On the other hand, that small guy who ran into us on the field is the one who got bounced up into the stands. People who wonder how an ant can lift so much don't get it do they.
My understanding is that Arness took a machine gun bullet in the foot (accounts vary) at Anzio and the wound never healed properly (yeah bullets tend to cause irreparable damage to complex bony structures). In any case the old wound was bothersome and caused a barely noticeable limp. Who knows, maybe that occasional physical irritation/pain was an asset to his acting when emoting on the bad guys. Glad he had a good long run, a very deserving fellow.
Cool as all getout. A real lesson in film editing 🙂 Thank-you!
Fascinating insight into the complexity of setting up just one scene of a show. Thanks.
I really enjoyed how they break everything down. Very interesting
I was a whopping nine years old when this was filmed. I don't think we even had a TV set when this show first began, as we had just moved from a four-room tarpaper shack in mid-1953 ...
I am 47 and I watch and record this shows every day love it
Me too lol
Sure would like to see how they do a
Scene between Matt and Kitty!
Especially the way they look at each other.
This is fabulous! Thanks for posting it, and thanks especially to whoever put this together.
thankyou for showing the behind the scenes film. Great job
I believe it was John Anderson in an episode of Star Trek Next Generation where he plays an omnipotent alien who wipes out a whole civilization just by a thought! He was an outstanding and versatile actor.
It cracks me up when a criminal is lying to Matt Dillon and instead of tipping his hand
and calling him a liar before he can prove it, Matts' only response is to just stand there
and say Ummm humm. Most people use that response to agree with the person they are
talking with, but Matt Dillon NEVER uses it that way. He never says umm, humm, to agree
with what he has just been told. Viewers always know that
and most of the liars probably knew it too. This is probably one of my favorite lines
that is frequently repeated in Gunsmoke and I sometimes wonder if this is something
James Arness just started doing or was that written into the scripts (?)
It drives my wife crazy when I do this to her which always give me a little chuckle.
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Didn’t recognize Jack Klugman until I saw his name in the credits. I’ve never seen him when he was younger only older when he was in The Odd Couple.
Best TV western ever and ran 20 years. First show to have part 1, part 2. As it progressed it got better and better and way ahead of it's time,
Bonanza christmas
Do you have any western Christmas shows
How do I get a gunsmoke Christmas show
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fantastic post. thank you!!!
Doing good it's good to hear from you.
“Look up at Jim”.
Just excellent!
John Anderson.Outstanding character actor.
He was also the main character in the classic "The Old Man in the Cave" episode of Twilight Zone.
john Anderson in my opinion-one of the greatest of all time-love seeing him he makes the show work! Did a great lincoln!
Reminds me a little of John Dehner, was in about every radio episode.
me 2 , I just watched it a week or so ago .
Yes! Great actor indeed!Perhaps Patricia Smith was not full as good an actress but she was a beauty!
The only thing I have to say is I see their hats fell off. There's an episode of the Lawman where Marshal Dan Troop and an outlaw are fighting and they dive out of a window on to the boardwalk and they still have their hats on. Same thing happens on Wells Fargo Days where Dale Robinson is fighting somebody and jumps off a stagecoach in his hat doesn't fall off.
Best show ever 👍🏻
Nicely done.
This clip makes you appreciate the Foley artists and the music. Without them, the film would seem pretty dull.
Pretty cool stuff! . Love this show.,
BS?? NO! Friend, that is how we make movies & TV shows - piece by piece, scene by scene.
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At 10:45, two TV icons, Jack Klugman and James Arness.
I recognized Klugman as much or more, from his voice ...
A lot of hard work for a few minutes. What a pity time won't wait; they should have made a few thousand of them. In 1957 I was still at College having a hard time, at the age of 17. Where have all those years gone ? I'll have to start packing soon, I'm in the last wagon.
Yeah, a lament everyone will one will eventually deal with. if that's any consolation, which it probably isn't.
Thats Jack Klugman in the scene by himself. Oscar Madison
WHen I studied tv production in College, we had to edit these clips into one coherent sets of scenes....
Watch this every night
When making a television show required people whom were true craftsmen of their trade.
"Whom" receives the action. "Who" does the action.
I agree. It also requires a lot of time too. I've seen TV production crews spend an entire 8-hour day just to film one 2-minute scene for a single episode.
@@christophertsiliacos8958 Christopher looking at that time in our culture when this was filmed, the people and the general attitude of the time period-the 1950's I feel like jumping through my computer screen and into that time and never coming back.
I watched the first one they put on the other night
I often wonder when you see fights like this with the actors doing their own stunts, how many bruises they end up with when filming is finished. OK, they aren't taking punches but they do take some flyers on to the (very hard) ground and even if you have been trained and are used to relax and rolling with it, some of the landings have got to hurt. And being dragged across the ground by one arm is a sore shoulder if nothing else. Anybody out there in the know?
Yes, Lee Majors did most of his stunts on Six Million Dollar Man and he said it aged him 20 years faster... same for James Garner. He quit Rockford Files due to the physical strain.
Wonder if anyone who watches all the gunsmoke episodes noticed this mistake. In the episode "unloaded gun" when chester unloaded Mats gun you could plainly see he unloaded six bullets. Later in the episode the camera zoomed in on the bullets that were left on the table verifiying mat had not reloaded the gun,, well there were 7 bullets on table in this scene.
Really, are you sure... Well maybe Chester unloaded one twice, wouldn't put it past him.
There’s a video somewhere on UA-cam that zooms in and shows a pickup truck driving by in the far background lol
I edited this during my freshman year of high school, it was a great editing exercise
What did Chester Goode keep in his left back pocket??? Maybe a wallet? Never seen anybody on Gunsmoke (or any western for that matter) pull out a wallet.
somebody said that was james arness doing his own stunts but that's not him when the shots are from a distance.
Why would a Doctor's office be located at the top of steep rickety stairs?
Cheap rent
"Old Doc Brown has moved upstairs... " Johnny Cash .
No one paid Doc Adams..
The stairs were a test of how badly one needed help.
Some stores would rent out space upstairs for extra money. Doctors, attorneys just starting out or even a seamstress might be using that space, cheaper rent.
my dad like gunsmoke
My granddad's favorite show
50s when gunsmoke was greatest, a younger better looking matt dillion, and his side kick chester the best, when he left got stale, and Arness the alcoholic face there after, but still the best tv western
Acting can be hard work, I wonder where this was filmed, obviously outdoors.
Early shows the town was outdoors but when during season 7-11 it looked like a soundstage .
Didn't anyone ever check the gate between setups?
There was a serious problem with debris at the top of the frame!
If it was so serious why didn't anyone notice it and complain about it.
This is how you stop going to the movies. You lose the magic, and stop believing.
Yeah knowing how sausage is made isn't for everyone, and properly so.
@@emansnas Especially when you are the sausage maker.
@@melvina628 Ha Ok then... I take it you have special insight. I wouldn't mind elaboration but I'm okay either way.
@@emansnas People who work in the industry, like these folks on this set, probably have lost a little bit of the magic about going to the movies.
@@melvina628 I'm sure. Guess there *are* circumstances where one can know too much.
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Don't ever slap a woman when Matt Dillon's around....or when I'm around.
There is a certain kind of woman that cries out for the bitch slap she knows she deserves. It is a test for her man. One you'll have to learn to recognize if your ever going to be an adult.
@@emansnas Nope. If they need to be slapped, then they just need to be divorced, period. Just turn and walk away to the nearest attorney.
@@Tonetwisters Sorry, but recounting your life style doesn't make it right for everyone.
@@emansnas There are certain men who should be bitched slapped because they deserve it too. Maybe you'll learn this if YOU ever become an adult! You probably want to slap me for speaking against you. Have some pride in yourself and then you will see women as human beings - not punching bags!
@@judyharrison9844 Just had to dive right in didn't you. Hmm.. your comment indicates a distinct lack of perception regarding mine... which stands. But thank you for tendering evidence in support of my observation... and no I don't feel any need at present to slap you (hope that doesn't disappoint), hell I don't even much know you. Though I may resort to a fly swatter if necessary. Has this gotten the appropriate 'give a shit' msg across... maybe you'd like to take a cool down lap lol. Yeah, I tried the nice guy thing once... but it didn't work out... but then it never does without an edge does it.
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Funny how boring it is without music and sound effects.
It is very interesting. The number of likes way outweigh dislikes!
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5;00 time frame stunt double for matt and and john anderson possibly.
Obviously. The whole point of this video is to show the various angles and takes (including those with stuntmen) needed to make a complete scene. The final edit is shown at about 13:15, so you can see how they combined the actors' takes with the stunt doubles' takes to make a complete scene that will be included in the actual broadcast.
Made an edit of this in my film class. What do you think? ua-cam.com/video/oqHpa1scbBs/v-deo.html
Wow, they had a LOT of cover shots for just one scene. Radio Gunsmoke was so much better.