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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
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The Apollo Chronicles has a short scene near the end where a dozen or more buses are grouped up to watch the launches, actual footage from the late 60s.

I watched that program and remember the scene, probably shot from a helicopter. I tried to view that program on YouTube but did not want to subscribe. But I found another similar YT program "Apollo 11 liftoff- the unseen spectators" where there's this ivory panel van TV support vehicle parked:
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And a boy applying an "event" bumper sticker to a splittie:
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
Rome wrote:
RWK wrote:
The Apollo Chronicles has a short scene near the end where a dozen or more buses are grouped up to watch the launches, actual footage from the late 60s.

I watched that program and remember the scene, probably shot from a helicopter. I tried to view that program on YouTube but did not want to subscribe. But I found another similar YT program "Apollo 11 liftoff- the unseen spectators" where there's this ivory panel van TV support vehicle parked:
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And a boy applying an "event" bumper sticker to a splittie:
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Was it similar to this?: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=628793&highlight=moon
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2025 10:01 am    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
Red splittie standard parked on a New York City street, movie "Three the hard way" (1974).
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Beige splittie in left foreground, movie "Hook, line and sinker" with Jerry Lewis (1969).
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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2025 10:07 am    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
Composite photo of turquoise splittie standard, movie "Hook, line and sinker" with Jerry Lewis (1969).
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Ivory splittie dual cab pickup, German movie "Rocker" (1972).
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From the same movie:
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2025 12:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
Here is an outtake of an accident on the set of the TV show "Adam-12". The cop car and the green car collide and the tail of the cop car clips the bus.

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https://www.facebook.com/ClassicHollywoodLosAngelessfv/videos/1452095222614476


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
I wonder if that is how it was supposed to go down?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 2:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
BarryL wrote:
I wonder if that is how it was supposed to go down?


Watching the video it looks like the green car was supposed to turn left and the cop car was to follow. The reactions of the two drivers after the accident was probably someone f*cked up that one. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
Getting back to movie sightings:

Movie "Abenteuer in Rio" (1964); English title "That man in Rio"-
Ivory Splittie on street on dirt embankment. Main character French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is the man who is running.
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Same movie:
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Blue Splittie Deluxe in background seen through the metal gate; movie "Pretty poison" (1968).
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 6:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Old movies with Split busses. Reply with quote
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