"Get Smart" Used This SECRET TECHNIQUE While Filming And You Didn't Even Know! BLOOPER
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- "Get Smart" Used This SECRET TECHNIQUE While Filming And You Didn't Even Know! BLOOPER
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THE OLD FOOT IN THE MIRROR TRICK. LOL LOL
Good work, 99!
That's the third time I fell for it this week.
Yes!!!
I missed the image in the mirror by that much! 😂
Great video! Btw, I am 5’7 as well, but never asked someone to take their shoes off so I could look taller.
I still use that expression! 😂😂
Would you believe I missed it too?
I loved the moment (in another episode) when we find out that KAOS is a Delaware corporation. :)
After Get Smart was out of production I think that Barbara Feldon even admitted on some talk show that she was required in some scenes to crouch down(bend her knees) so that she would not appear to be taller than Don Adams.
See: "Walker, Texas Ranger"
Hey Rick, Thanks for pointing out the mirror. I had heard Barbara was about 3 inches taller than Don. Never saw an illistration before.
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The irony is that mirrors were always pointed downward in TV and movies so the filming crew, lights, and cameras wouldn't show! 😂
Exactly! I didn’t mention it but you’re totally right. If it was pointed up, no reflection of the feet. Oooh the irony!
The small screens and low definition hid a lot of bloopers back then.
Didn’t know that - learn a new thing every day
Never realized that. We all all loved that show as kids. Thanks, Rick.
I never noticed it either!
Good work, 99!
My favorite sitcom was Get Smart, and I agree that Max was about as much a bumbler as Don Knotts (Barney Fife), and Bob Denver (Gilligan). Of course Don's real life cousin, Robert Karvelas, who played Larrabee, was just as much of a bumbler as Max.
I didn't know they were related, cool fact.
Neither Did I!!!!@@kenlompart9905
I always knew that Maxwell Smart was shorter than just about everyone and that was part of what made the show funny - the little funny guy winning the day. (I first saw the show before I was 10 years old and grew up to be 5'7, 5'8 on a good day.)
I saw an interview with Barbara Feldon. She said she had to wear flats all the time and she developed a stoop in her posture because on camera she always had to hunch down to appear shorter. From Wiki Don Adams-> He joined the U.S. Marines in the early days of World War II. He saw combat in the invasion of Guadalcanal and was the only survivor of his platoon. He contracted blackwater fever and nearly died, remaining hospitalized for more than a year.
They also had height issues with Al Pacino and Rene Russo. In the film they had Pacino and Russo walking down the sidewalk where Russo had to walk 2 steps behind Pacino to get the heights balanced out.
Nice job Rick..👍
They used many similar tricks to adjust the height of the actors in _The Lord of the Rings_ , for example having John Rhys-Davies kneel in many shots, or Elijah Wood sit a few feet behind Ian McKellen on a cart.
In Blue Lagoon Brooke Shields stood in holes they dug in the sand because she was taller than her male co star.
I loved this show! I knew she was taller, but they did a good job of masking it !!
They really did do a good job!
I remember Barbara Feldon stating that sometimes she had to film with knees bent to make him look taller.
Also didn't notice! Great video and really like how you find these hidden treasures!
Glad you like them!
Watching "Get Smart" in the sixties I often wondered at such small person (Don Adams) being such a tough guy. Years later I'd read about his military service in WWII, and I never doubted again.
Thank you so very much for the video.
They call the extreme version of that "Napoleon syndrome."
many short men over compensate for being short, basically. They try harder, strive more, etc
Same situation with Lucy and Desi. Of course they had to perform in front of an audience, so they had fewer tricks available besides Desi's huge heels. You covered that one really well earlier.
On Three's Company they did the opposite for Mr and Mrs Roper. They wanted Audra Lindley to tower over Norman Fell to emphasize the domineering wife / henpecked husband comedic theme, so they gave her a tall hairdo and heels.
The nice detail with the last example is that it's something the character might do as well.
Like I've said many times....Eagle eye Rick does it again. Wow.
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1- my eyes never left Barbara
2 - Rick you are amazing spotting this
3 - there are pictures on the internet of Humphrey Bogart wearing really big LIFTS on his shoes for some of his movies
4 - my eyes never left Barbara
1.Haha
2. this comment is hilarious.
3. Thank you for watching
@@rickninegmy eyes never left Barbara either.
I noticed in many cases, the height of agent 99 would change.
They also:
Shot at an upwards angle and had the people they wanted taller to be closer to the camera.
In westerns, they used to have different height doors so that the women could be framed in a taller door way.
They used forced perspective to make streets look longer and would in those cases often place the hero a little further from the camera. The part of the set near the woman was taller and the bit near the male hero would be sorter as part of the forced perspective thing. They also dressed up children to put in the background.
They also would sometimes have a character stand on a box to get them framed right.
BTW: Don Adams was an extremely physically capable person. A lot of those falls and bumping into stuff he did required a lot of ability that most people simply don't have. He could appear to fall over in a scene and repeat it several times if needed.
Fun catch. Having the character be short would make sense though, as he has a bit of an overconfident Napoleon thing going on.
I’ve always loved this show!! In some episodes, I remember 99 was noticeably taller. I just admired 87 for not caring and actually ending up with her. She is so cute & beautiful!
I agree. Barbara Feldon is a cute and beautiful woman.
86.
@@Pygar2Yup! My mistake. Haha😅!
@@ternyb1391 missed it by THAT much. 🤏
An interview with Barbara Feldon I saw she shared several ways she adapted to look shorter so Max would appear taller: The kick off your shoes one you show here. And hip slant /slouch to appear shorter. Max on a box. Seen here but not pointed out: several times in your show clip they position Barbara behind Max: from the camera 2-shot angle she seems shorter. Plus she may be bending her {unseen} knees.
She told an interviewer that in reality he was 5-8, she was 5-10, so she either took her shoes off, or he was standing on a create, other times she's have to be moving in the scene so the height wasn't noticeable. , she said Don would often joke about it in bloopers.
I never understood this and know they did this for a lot of "leading men" who were not as tall as Hollywood wanted. We know people are of different heights, including male role models. Why not just get on with the story?
Thank you for this neat bit of trivia.
One of my all time favourite shows.
Mine too. it still holds up/funny, here in. 2024
Annnd….. loving it! 😂
I watched this in 1965. Analog TVs were smaller and poor resolution compared to what we have today. Unfair to call bloopers for details that were not visible during time of their production.
Old news for those who have seen all the other videos on this. Feldon effed up her ankles rolling over to shrink below Adam's height. I think it would have been funnier if he had eaten his ego and let her be taller. As it was, she always had to "stoop" to his level.
off subject but just thought of this .......at the end of hogans hero's it says a Bing Crosby production ???? never saw that production on any other shows ....was that the only one????
Pretty much! Google says "Slattery's People" a one-season show, "Breaking Point" and "Ben Casey" which atleast I've heard of!
Huge Get Smart fan, one of my favorite shows of the 60s, especially the early season (pre ugly late 60s/early 70s styles). I have heard Barbara Feldon comment on she would intentionally slump so she would look shorter than Don. I didn’t see the shoes reflection you shared but not surprising. Smaller leading men from Alan Ladd to Desi Arnaz to Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise have stood on things, wore lifts, etc. Keep the Get Smart episodes coming. What a great show. Do one about the brilliant Bernie Kopell. What a character Ziegfried was. Thanks for the fun facts.
Michael J Fox is another short actor.
The normal trick is to use a Scully Box (named after Gillian Anderson's character who sometime had to stand on a box for some scenes in the X-Files to appear taller).
Reminds me of Lucille Ball. Desi would wear lifts and use camera angles. I remember you covering that before. These still happen today ! Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise to name a couple modern actors. Good eye Rick !
Ya didn't mention the other half of the trick: they also shoot from below the main protag's eye line and then keep them in the front. You can see that trick used extensively in the first X-Men movie Hugh Jackman is a tall guy, but Wolverine is very short, so it was important to make him appear shorter than Cyclops. In many shots that was achieved with an exaggerated version of this trick by keeping Hugh back in the group and shooting low. You can see in one shot you use where the door frame is level with Don's eyebrows and Barbara is aligned with his back shoulder to achieve the effect.
Of course, in many other shots in the show, you do see Don and Barbara at their full heights next to each other often enough that I remember watching the reruns as a kid and wondering why they kept putting Don up on an apple crate for all the close-in shots. I just thought the short-guy-hero gag was part of the whimsy of the show.
I just love these kinds of short video essays, especially with this level of nostalgia.
"Secret Technique While Filming" - I expected some weird lens, or unique back-lighting, or awesome camera angle. Instead - "she took off her shoes." hahahaha
I'm wondering if her foot in the mirror would even be clear on a 1960s era TV set with much less clarity than we are accustomed to today. I've seen examples in other shows where there would obviously be wires running up the pants leg of an actor (like for a hidden mic or to trigger a special effect). They didn't worry about it back then, not anticipating the advent of modern HDTVs.
I knew about Don Adam's height, but never noticed it in this episode.
1:52 The man with the beard is actor Henry Brandon, who played the evil Silas Barnaby in the Laurel and Hardy movie, March of the Wooden Soldiers, which was released 31 years before this Get Smart episode.
I'm not sure if it makes as much of a difference in the Maxwell Smart persona if he's shorter than Barbara "99" Feldon, since the premise of the show was that he was a klutz. But Hollywood is Hollywood.
Hello Rick, I never noticed this blooper before, thanks for pointing it out!!! I know that in television & film they've been doing little tricks for years to make the man appear taller. A great example is your video showcasing Desi Arnaz' s special shoes!!! As always, excellent video!!! 👍👍🙂
Many many thanks!
I knew there was a height difference, but ... never made a difference to me. I kind of hope we've moved past this ... tradition. Adams character was so much more important than his height.
Max Smart never looks like the dominant character because his facially characteristics tries constantly not to the serious protagonist. I think it was more for his ego than screen presence.
I did see a documentary where Barbara talked about all of the contortions she used to go through. Bending knees, standing on the sides of her feet, etc. A real trooper.
You will also notice that when they are in the Chiefs office, 99 is usually sitting on the desk, which lowers her height
They use many of the same tricks today. Especially when Tom Cruise is on set…
Great show. My co-worker and I would try to say things just like agent 86 just to have a good time at 3AM in the morning.
Never noticed, Thank you
I love Get Smart. I loved this episode. I never noticed it! Thanks Rick.
Very welcome
They could have just used a soap box... missed it by that much.
Every time l see Don Adams l think of Tennessee Tuxedo.
Just curious, Rick, is this something that would never have been seen on the original NBC 35mm film broadcast to a standard colour/b&w 1960's TV?
From my understanding, many of these for-the-first-time-seen bloopers only became noticeable with due to remastering, digitization, HD quality and the visible area difference between 4:3 TVs and 16:9 TVs.
It’s always cool to learn how certain things were done with shows like this as today, special effects and practical effects have come along way compared to back when Get Smart was made. Thank you for the video Rick, I hope you’re doing well, keep up the great work. Take care!
I love the Art and Cinematography of Theater, and your videos give me more info to use when studying all these wonderful pieces of TV history - Thank you!
My pleasure!
Watching your videos are always fun. I can watch something a hundred times and never notice these things until you point them out. It's loads of fun to discover these things.....your sorta helping me to "get smart" in my viewing of the good old shows...thanks Rick.
I don’t think i noticed the difference 😮especially back then when it aired . 👍📺 Thanks Rick ! I’m currently watching I Love Lucy “s episode The Tour ” 😂
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You know it 😂
Tom cruise won’t go anywhere without his apple box to stand on
I love that this first aired on my birthday Oct 2, 1965!
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Excellent video. I love Hollywood movie magic. I grew up watching Get Smart. Thanks for the flash back.
Missed it by - that much!
Loved this show
Ha! Ha! Thats a fabulous find! I love your observations regarding things I’ve never seen even though I’ve watched these classic shows over and over. Thanks for posting!
TVcrazyman beat you to that mirror flub in his video "60's Television Bloopers and Goofs" from four days ago. :) You still did an excellent video though. Thanks for sharing.
I've seen this episode millions of times. Would you believe... hundreds? Would you believe... five times? Would you believe I'm not sure if I've seen it at all?
Rick,
Only YOU could find such a blooper! As I've said before, you are THE Sherlock Holmes of Classic TV. And this is why your loyal subscribers stay subscribed, "like" your videos and keep coming back to you.
I would really like to watch Get Smart again. Used to watch it in reruns all the time as a kid, and then I believe Nick at Nite aired episodes in the '90's.
Rick, do you know if this series is available on a streaming service or is hard copy DVD my only option?
Thanks again and Happy 2024!
Be hopeful,
Paul +
Many many thanks! GOOD Work, 99!
@@ricknineg
Rick,
What about my question above? Streaming? DVD?
That’s a GREAT catch! 🕵️♂️🔍
When first seeing this show, I was too young to care who was taller, but Barbara Felton always seemed taller. It looks like they also used different camera angles to not make the height difference too obvious.
You mean KAOS, not CONTROL.
Max worked for CONTROL. KAOS was CONTROL’s nemesis.
I loved that program. If Steve Carell won't do another Get Smart movie they should get Nick Swardson, Sam Rockwell, Elijah Wood, Seth Green, Rob Schnieder, David Spade or Tom Cruise to play Maxwell Smart secret agent 86. It's not like we need an Oscar performance FFS.
Don Adams is 6'0 tall.
I find that hard to believe.
Would you believe 5'10?
Hardly.
Would you believe 5'8 in heels?
I have met Sigourney Weaver. She is easily 6’1” and she started opposite diminutive Tim Allen in the film Galaxy Quest. The difference in height in that film dwarfs the difference between Adams and Feldman.
There are a number of _Not So Tall_ actors, they don't need to be freakishly short either, anyone under 6' in a leading man would be considered _NST_ even though National Average is 5' 9", there are any number of leading men who stand 5' 9"+ who will have a half-step platform to stand on when performing in camera with another (especially a woman) to make them appear 2-4" taller.
I guess they use these tricks a lot in Tom Cruise movies... I didn't know about the bare feet blooper, but I did hear in Barbara Feldon's interviews how she always had to wear flats and slouch slightly whenever she was next to Don Adams.
I've noticed that Angelina Jolie always looks a lot taller/bigger than she really is. Not that she is short at 5'7", but she is small skinny woman. Tiny compared to a 6'2" built guy. Yet, she never appears to be that much smaller than her male co-stars. And I have always wondered if this is something that is written is their contracts in that she must be filmed a certain way to make her look bigger than she really is.
Today I found out that Dick Gautier (beloved character Hymie the Robot) is the father of the guy who stole the sex tape from Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson 😮🤣
They did this in Wonder Woman - and it was infuriating. The entire film, she towers over everyone, including Chris Pines, until they are supposed to have a romantic moment in private when suddenly, he inexplicably is taller than she is, and she's looking up into his eyes. Many tall women I know got really pissed at this - because they wanted representation of a tall woman-shorter man romance scene.
Not just that, but in that two-shot, they also made sure he was closer to the camera in composition to make him look bigger, with her a bit further back to help with the size problem LMAO but yeah tricks like this were done all the time. Until, sitcoms in front of live audiences started to happen and they weren't worried about that any more. Michael J Fox, anyone?
Robert Conrad was mini-size as well and when he did the Wild West, any hired female actress had to be shorter than him....
"Secret technique"? Please, everyone knows all about this. It’s why we see Tom Cruise, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee look like big guys on film even though all three were near midgets in real life.
5' 7" was the average height of male Americans in the 1960s.
And is still the average height of men around the globe.
Would you believe . . . there's a manually pivoted bar on the bottom of the Tiger seats that might raise the seat up about 2 inches max., Max? Need to exit car, tilt seat forward and swing bar down.
Adams would also stand on a box or step, and often Feldman would bend her knees a bit. They do similar things with Tom Cruise. He too is only 5' 6" or 5' 7", although he is likely shorter with spine compression over the years.
This reminds me of an episode of Leave it to Beaver, wherein his older brother, Wally, is "tricked" into going on a date with a girl who is a bit taller than him (season 5 episode 8, Wally's Big Date). When the girl realizes his predicament, she wears shoes without high heels and wears her hair "down." It was a pretty nifty episode.
What you are talking about is called forced perspective. It’s used to trick your eye into to thinking something is bigger or smaller then it really is. You can make objects bigger or smaller to make people looking bigger or smaller. It was used a lot in the LOTR trilogy. Disney uses it make buildings looking taller. The2nd 3rd floors on the buildings on Main Street are a little small as to make them look taller.
On a tour of the Universal Studios Backlots they drive through an area known as "Western Town" - One side of the streets allows male actors of the time to appear taller, while the opposite side would make them appear shorter. And for close-up shots, yes female actresses would either remove their shoes or wear "flats."
According to the Universal back lot tour, the whole set in old western movies was designed to make the hero look larger than life. The saloon doors and building facades were built just a little under sized in order to make the hero appear larger. They'd also put a man on a box or a woman in a trench in order to make the man appear to be larger than the woman. It's easy to fool the audience when you control the perspective.
When it first came out, my Father watched that show faithfully, so I did too.
...and LOVING IT!
I was just watching Mission Impossible season 2 Trial by Fury. It looks like the it was filmed on the Hogan's Heros set. And a lot of the mood music in some of the episodes sounds like it from Star Trek.
In an age of HDTV/4K, large flat screens, and digital rewind, it's easy to forget that most TVs in the mid-60s were B/W, fuzzy, and less than 19" diagonally. And there was NO way to freeze-frame or reverse, so every second that you watched would come and go, not to be seen again... unless it was back on TV as a "repeat" episode. And the magicians that made television shows knew where to hide or obscure various elements, knowing that the viewer will be focused on the main action in the frame, not on irrelevant (or errant) details in the periphery. NOW it's easy to freeze and rewind so as to scrutinize every detail. ;P
You'll also notice that Barbra Feldon would also slouch when standing next to Don. Or as one of your screen shots show, there would be Don closer to the camera, and Barbra standing further away from the camera. But to spot bare feet in the mirror is an interesting catch
The other major trick used is forced perspective. In several shots, even tho it looks like they are both standing next to each other, in reality he's several feet closer to the camera, meaning he appears taller to the camera. Using a lens with a wide focal depth means visually they get "squashed" and appear on the same plane with each other.
Google Don Adams to see his war record in WWII. He was a decorated veteran, a D.I., and his commanding officer called him the toughest Marine ever,
Interesting title. I'd assume that a "secret technique" would be something I didn't know or it wouldn't be a secret, now would it?
Removing the shoes also helps with sound capture, although I didn't see the blocking on this shot, so I can't know if that's another reason for removing them.
The Beverly Hillbillies ep with Henry Gibson as a "tall" cowboy star, made real fun of these faking techniques!
Always noticed that women in Frank Sinatra’s films always wore flats, and very squashed down hairdos in eras of very big hair.
I did read some articles about some sets of adjustable wall heights that were adjustable or furniture was also altered to make sure the actor looked bigger than he or she would be. The interesting thing was the shoe size of the actors had to be honest in filming so in some action shots you see them running a wearing different footwear while in later shots they wearing shoes. Trainers were worn in action shots then back to plane shoes. Here's a little bit of oddness footwear usually was the actor's own because of comfort support and some had hidden features in them not a phone but a curious thing small film star had heals made for them to appear taller one famous actor Alan Ladd and possibly Charlie Chaplin had special footwear made for filming. And dancers on screen had many different footwear shoes made for one movie or more because the shoes would wear out on set.
Didn't catch it, but it proves what we've known all along: Barbara Feldon was stunning from head to foot!
I think this is more common than you think. I remember seeing the filming of a show and the female presenter was rather short. When she would be beside the male presenter , they would have her standing on a step (about 12 inches high) to make their heights a lot closer
Sometimes they even used a small platform to make the male look taller to especially for walking scenes. Lots of trickery simple and not so... funny show!
Claude Rains also had to endure efforts to compensate for height issues with the likes of Ingrid Bergman. They even built ramps for him to walk up to her. Must have been embarrasing. Rains is reported to have been 5'7" Ingrid 5'9"
Very interesting, Rick. I’ve never seen this show. I think I’d like to try it out. Thanks for sharing ❤
Hope you like it!
Sadly Joyce Randolph(Trixie - Honeymooners) died after this video on 1/13/24!