sam+n
...@zoy.org wrote:
> The scenes clearly show the Los Angeles four-level
> stacked interchange.
Can't say if they match your frames for certain, but two movies that
come to my mind are 1980's "The Great American Traffic Jam", a TV
movie, and 1990's "Air America", starring Mel Gibson.
In "Great American Traffic Jam", an aerial view of the "stack" was
shown in the opening credits, and again towards the end of the movie.
In "Air America", the first scenes introducing Mel Gibson's character
(a LA helicopter traffic reporter) have several aerial views of the
"stack" and approaches, all taken at different angles.
>(hence not Duel or Mad, mad, mad, mad world)
Note that the LA "stack" wasn't featured in either of those movies at
all. The opening sequence in the theatrical version of "Duel" (as
opposed to the original TV movie, which started with Dennis Weaver
already on the isolated desert road) includes a driver's eye view of
passing though the Pasadena Freeway tunnels and then entering the
Gilden State Freeway. And, apart from a short sequence shot on a
divided four lane highway (when Phil Silvers gets a ride from Don
Knotts, and then steals his car), "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" has no
freeway footage at all.
>>>and most probably from the 70s.
You said your frames were from a movie, but it's also worth noting that
the early episodes of CHiPs (1977?) featured lots of aerial shots of
the various LA freeways.
Hope this helps you.
