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Driving a Desk
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Back in the early days of motion pictures, when woolly mammoths trudged through the streets of Hollywood, scenes still took place in areas where a full film crew would be practically impossible. One of the most popular and common varieties of such a scene was when the characters were driving, either for a car chase or for a leisurely chat. For obvious reasons, it was very impractical for directors to have their whole camera crew perched on the hood of a moving car being driven by remote control by someone in the trunk (although today there are such things as cameras that can be rigged onto the hood of a vehicle). Thus, there was something called "rear window" projection, wherein the moving background was filmed separately, then projected onto a screen behind the actors, who sat in a mockup of a car and acted as normal. This was also known as a "process shot". |
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, when the T-1000 climbs on the back of the escaping police car from the insane asylum, in shots featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick the scene noticeably switches from live driving stunts to a stationary police car with the asylum and street becoming rear projection. Many of the nighttime driving scenes, particularly in the police car with its lights turned off, are also process. | |
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In My Führer, there's an obvious rear projection behind the car driving Adolf Grünbaum to the Third Reich's Chancellery in Berlin, with Real Life footage from 1945 Berlin. | |
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Pee-wee's Playhouse did this with Pee-Wee's scooter in the end credits. It was a combination of this trope and the Chroma Key regularly used by the show. | |
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Chumbawamba: Among other things, the video for "Timebomb" shows various people sitting at tables and desks, only for the furniture to accelerate into the road and carry them through the traffic. | |
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Like everything else in Bottom, the back projection when Richie and Eddie are "driving" was sped up to such a ludicrous rate that it couldn't help but be hilarious. | |
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The 200th episode of Bones, "The 200th in the 10th, is a Homage to movies of The '50s. As such, this trope is in full force whenever the characters are driving a car. | |
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The Naked Gun makes use of outrageous backdrops, such as showing the Colosseum in Rome when Drebin is allegedly driving in "Little Italy". | |
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Some Like It Hot uses this when Osgood helps Joe, Jerry, and Sugar escape the last Chase Scene in his motorboat. | |
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The MythBusters have done this a few times, though generally they show the chroma key background to the audience at some point as a Lampshade Hanging. | |
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Done deliberately in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, among many other elements (successfully) intended to recreate the "flavor" of '50s and '60s movies. | |
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Harry Hill's TV Burp: Done literally when Harry converts his desk into a car, drives out of the studio, then onto the highway... then a racetrack... then a ski slope... then he takes flight before finally returning to the studio. | |
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Done as a stylistic choice in The Matrix, when Neo makes his first trip into the Matrix after finding out its true nature. The street outside the car windows looks vague and fake, because it is just that. | |
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Seen throughout The Love Bug and its sequels, Herbie Rides Again, Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo, and Herbie Goes Bananas. | |
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Spoofed in Carrotblanca, where during a flashback the rear-projection is actually live-action to further distract from the animated characters. | |
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Taz-Mania: In "To Catch a Taz" (a homage to Alfred Hitchcock films, especially North By Northwest), this is revealed to be happening during a chase scene when Wendal gets out of his car (which is on rollers) and casually walks up to Taz as the scenery continues to race by in the background. | |
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In Charade, scenes of Audrey Hepburn's and Cary Grant's characters riding cars and a boat have rear-projection effects. When they ride the boat through tunnels, their dialogue has an echo effect added for realism. | |
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Parodied in Black Dynamite where the rear projection shows Chicago Wind's car making some pretty big turns, despite him not looking at the road or moving the steering wheel. Then he turns to look at the road and instantly screams as he's about to run over a cliff that wasn't in the rear projection. | |
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H.R. Pufnstuf: Witchy-Poo drives her Flying Broomstick with a steering wheel, except her movements of the wheel don't seem to affect which way the broom goes at all. | |
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Lucifer does this deliberately in the 5th season episode It Never Ends Well For The Chicken. The whole episode is done as a story that Lucifer is telling to Trixie about something that he did back in the 1940s, and all the visuals are handled like something straight from a noir film of the time. Of course the driving scenes would therefore have to use this trope rather than show the characters actually driving like in most episodes. | |
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent has some driving scenes that actually consist of the actors sitting in front of LED screens. | |
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Averted in Bulldog Drummond by the simple expediency of having a night-driving scene take place against a pitch-black background. | |
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In MADtv (1995)'s parody of Trapped in the Closet, there's a scene where R. Kelly drives in front of a green screen image without a car (he at least still has a steering wheel). | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. Kit sometimes uses green-screened backgrounds to simulate him either driving or jogging somewhere to supposedly get gift cards for a scammer. This can sometimes result in this effect, such as here where it looks like Kit is jogging in place and the background is moving behind him. | |
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Naturally occurs in Columbo as a series that mostly was filmed in the 70s, but Requiem for a Falling Star stands out for a fakeout where it looks like the murderer of the episode is fleeing the cops in an obvious Driving a Desk moment... and then the camera zooms out to reveal it is an in-universe Driving a Desk moment — she's filming a driving scene for her movie. | |
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Nearly all car scenes on 3rd Rock from the Sun budget-savingly took place at night with a car mockup simply placed in front of a black background. | |
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Early James Bond films were offenders in this category. While the bobsled chase in On Her Majesty's Secret Service was mainly shot on the actual run, the actors were not able to actually operate a bobsled so they had to have stunt doubles do the actual sledding instead. They tried to avert the need for this trope as much as possible with tricks such as having the stunt double duck to avoid a bullet as they pass the camera, hiding their face in the process, but in close-up shots of the action where you can easily see their faces, a blue-screen was used. If you look closely, you can just about see the seams in it. Dr. No has a particularly egregious shot of a nervous Sean Connery being pursued by a car that appeared at least twice as large as his own. This continues until even Licence to Kill, where we see Sanchez and his cronies pretend to drive through long stretches of Mexican highway. |
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Done extensively in Perry Mason. | |
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Mr. Robot: Used to highlight the unnatural nature of the scenario during the sitcom sequence in "m4ster-sl4ve.aes". Attention is even drawn to it when Tyrell Wellick crashes into the green screen at the back of the set while trying to escape. | |
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Often averted on Quantum Leap, but very visible in the episode "It's a Wonderful Leap", which has Sam driving a taxi against a very obvious Chroma Key background. The episode is heavy on conversations in the cab, and it allows Sam to do things such as check out his brand-new reflection in the mirror - which, in-universe, causes him to take his eyes off the road and hit a pedestrian. | |
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Used surreally in Pepe Deluxé's "Go Supersonic" video. The racecar drivers are just sitting in chairs, holding steering wheels that aren't attached to anything, sitting in front of a projected backdrop... and every camera shot is positioned to draw attention to this. Then, in some scenes, the chair actually do move as if they were cars. At one point, a chair even breaks down and starts belching smoke. | |
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Seinfeld did this all the time in its later seasons. It looks especially cheap because the backdrop footage is shot at a faster framerate than the bluescreen footage. | |
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Employed in the otherwise-groundbreaking Aliens during the crash of the Dropship. | |
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While the bobsled chase in On Her Majesty's Secret Service was mainly shot on the actual run, the actors were not able to actually operate a bobsled so they had to have stunt doubles do the actual sledding instead. They tried to avert the need for this trope as much as possible with tricks such as having the stunt double duck to avoid a bullet as they pass the camera, hiding their face in the process, but in close-up shots of the action where you can easily see their faces, a blue-screen was used. If you look closely, you can just about see the seams in it. | |
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An episode of The Goodies (Punky Business) parodied this and then subverted it. The three Goodies are in the back of a van and we see the road in the van's back window via backscreen projection, then it starts showing footage of punks. The subversion comes when Bill shoves Graeme and Tim out of the back of the van and we see a screen with the punk footage projected onto it, being watched by several policemen. | |
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Done in The Aquabats! Super Show! episode "EagleClaw!" with Eaglebones' motorcycle ride, mixed with real time footage of Eaglebones actually driving down the road. | |
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Three Wise Girls had Boating A Desk in a scene where Cassie takes a ride on Jerry's yacht. | |
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Averted in The French Connection, which was shot entirely on location and mostly in one take. There were even a few unscripted collisions with other vehicles. | |
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Commonly observed in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, usually when the minister is being driven from the airport to his office. | |
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This continues until even Licence to Kill, where we see Sanchez and his cronies pretend to drive through long stretches of Mexican highway. | |
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Star Wars had a cut rear-projection scene of Luke and C3PO driving in Luke's landspeeder looking for R2. | |
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NCIS: While this show is usually pretty good about avoiding this trope, In the Season 15 finale, Vance is driving a car that is clearly still in park. | |
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In Midnight Lace as the characters travel by taxi around London. | |
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In the Madness Jukebox Musical, Our House. Joe and his friends sit in his alleged car while a moving road is projected into the background to the tune of "Driving In My Car". The road changes to a rollercoaster track, then Death Star trenches while the gang swing lightsabers. | |
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Used in The Wizard of Oz to create the view out Dorothy's window during the tornado. | |
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One host segment from Mystery Science Theater 3000 parodied this, with the footage being projected the incredibly long driving sequence from "Manos" The Hands of Fate. | |
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Results in an obvious goof in Topaze, when the cars visible in the street behind Topaze and Coco's taxi disappear into thin air, presumably due to a bad splice. | |
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Used with projection in pretty much any driving scene in Murder, She Wrote, even into the mid 1990s when Chroma Key became a more common method. | |
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Most scenes from The Wages of Fear inside the truck cabins are shot on a sound stage with back projection. | |
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Inverted in the Don Adams Get Smart movie The Nude Bomb. In one scene, Maxwell Smart is literally driving a desk (the bad guy had stolen his car and Max was in pursuit). It had built-in machine guns. | |
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Italian Spiderman, in its many homages to poorly-made foreign movies, includes this in the motorcycle chase scene. | |
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In Bringing Up Baby this is used not only for exterior scenery, but also for the rear of the car interior, to create the illusion that Baby the leopard is on the back seat. | |
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace, being one of the most thorough examples of Stylistic Suck out there, HAD to do this, and they didn't even bother with the backdrop, just lights moving on an obviously non functional car. Seen at the beginning of that clip. Plus there's that awesome motorbike variant. | |
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Used for comedy in Saturday Night Live, due to the necessity of churning out a new, live show every week. Notable offenders include the recurring "Toonces, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car" and "Butabi Brothers" sketches. Here's an example of sorts. Done with Melissa McCarthy's portrayal of Sean Spicer. The crew build a motorized podium (using parts from an electric wheel chair) which she would drive around during sketches, including one situation where she actually drove it through the streets of New York. |
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Parodied on Schmigadoon!, where the Countess drives Melissa down an obviously projected road in an obviously stationary car — so obvious that she has a whole musical number while shimmying around in the carseat. | |
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Dr. No has a particularly egregious shot of a nervous Sean Connery being pursued by a car that appeared at least twice as large as his own. | |
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Modern Family: In "Manny Get Your Gun", the Dunphys are seen driving to Manny's party. The steering wheel fails to turn in spite of curvy streets. In one of the cars, the steering wheel seems to be locked. | |
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Doctor Who had the worst case of this in "The Claws of Axos." The effect used blue-screen... but the driving footage wasn't overlaid onto the bluescreen. | |
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In Pushing Daisies, an episode featured a flashback of Olive as a horse jockey. The racing scene was so obviously green screen they didn't even bother to hide it. | |
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In Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, this effect is painfully obvious during the convertible driving scene. | |
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Casablanca uses this as Rick and Ilsa drive through Paris, then through the French countryside. Roger Ebert admitted that despite his love of Casablanca, this scene looked like the worst rear projection effect he ever saw. | |
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Police Squad! did this, and would employ some sort of gag nearly every single time. Some were obvious, like the "Little Italy" gag (which was reused for The Naked Gun), or the bit where Lt. Frank Drebin narrates that he "drove back to the office" and is then shown driving his car in reverse. And some were more subtle, like the times Drebin drives through red lights and barely avoids getting hit by cross traffic, or the bizarre scene where Drebin is seated in the backseat of the car with his disembodied hands steering. | |
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Referenced in Top Gear during the Alfa Romeo challenge, when Jeremy notices how far he can move the steering wheel of Richard's Spider without the wheels moving: | |
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The video for Yello's "The Race" features one band member sitting in front of a rather abstract rear projection holding an unattached steering wheel. (Surreal, colorful rear projections were something of a Signature Style for the band.) | |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Mecha Streisand" when Chef's driving and the background behind him is a live action mountain road. | |
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One impressive subversion occurs in Touch of Evil: a fairly long sequence where Charlton Heston is actually driving (and acting) as he sends his car zipping down narrow back-alleys and blowing straight through intersections. | |
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In White Dog, Julie plays a small role in a movie that involves sitting in a gondola while footage of the canals of Venice plays on a screen behind her. | |
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In Robbie Williams's Millennium music video, the background projection suddenly changes from a moving background to what's seen at the end of the film. | |
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Homestar Runner features an especially low-tech variation. For any driving scenes in the various in-universe Dangeresque movies, Strong Bad would film himself in a stationary car, outdoors. To simulate the car's motion, another character would repeatedly run past the window while wearing a prop on their head. | |
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The more-than usually surreal The Prisoner (1967) episode "The Girl Who Was Death" has a car chase sequence in which the super-assassin of the title tries to make Number Six crash his car by making the back-projection road behind him spin around. | |
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Done purposefully in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: This is seen in Xander's dream in "Restless" when his girlfriend Anya is driving their ice cream truck. "I think I've figured out how to steer by gesturing emphatically." | |
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Notably averted in Ronin (1998), with the actors being driven around in right-hand-drive cars (in France, where everyone drives on the right) so they could act in sync with the actual driver and spliced with external shots. | |
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Lampshaded in Strange Brew. Doug takes his hands off the wheel and turns to Bob. He asks if he ever notices how in movies people can drive without looking at the road and without the background matching their steering. | |
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Aussie variety/comedy show Hey Hey It's Saturday had host Daryl Somers occasionally driving his desk around the studio. Unlike the Conan O'Brien example above, though, he didn't just have the desk mounted onto a normal vehicle, but had the wheels and engine built-in while he stood on a small platform jutting out of the back and using a pair of recessed dials to control it. | |
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MacGyver (1985): Unfortunately painfully obvious in "Three for the Road" where much of the plot involves Mac being in a car with the two guest stars. | |
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A truly glaring example in an early I Love Lucy episode; there is no "desk," usually there is at least the windshield frame between the viewer and the characters, usually with windshield removed, whence no rear view mirror, portions of the upper dash may even be visible. In this case there is nothing between Lucy and Desi in the front seat except a steering wheel and a steering column which is visible below where it would be hidden by dash or even engine compartment. In fact the passengers are visible down to, and briefly past, the waist line. Possibly Rule of Funny. | |
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