Maybe I am going to get my trained noticer badge yet. (Or I could just get told that this has already been noticed and that I need to pay more attention to the digest lol)
I was watching the first season on DVD again over the holiday weekend and noticed a few things. At Andy's house: In one of the first few episodes when you see someone walk into Andy's house there is almost like a porch area inside the house that runs from the kitchen wall to the entry door. It is about 3 feet wide and then you step down onto the floor of the house. This only shows up on the one episode that I can tell. Another thing I saw was that on the left side of the Rock fireplace there was a set of double wooden doors that evidently exited the rear of the house. They never show up again. (I think the stairs that went to the second floor were missing as well and when they were installed the doors were removed.) They were replaced with a curtained off window that is about the width of one door. The stairs take up the rest of the room where the second room would have been. Speaking of the fireplace in the early episodes there is not a full length mantle like you see in the later seasons. It has two small shelves on either side of the fireplace with a Deer head in the center above the fireplace. On one episode in the kitchen the camera is backed up or unzoomed enough that you can see the back of the kitchen stove and even floor behind it. There should actually be a wall there. I think the camera man realized it and quickly zooms or dollies in. At the Courthouse: We all have noticed the dissappearing door but did you ever notice that there are no windows on the inside views of the courthouse for almost half the first season. But on the outside views of the courthouse the windows exist. When windows finally do come on the inside only the window behind Andy's desk and the one to the left (if you were sitting at the desk) of the desk show up. The window that would be on the left side of the court house doors from the outside never shows up I guess until after the mysterious door dissapears. When the first two windows do show up they dont have the weird window boxes like they do later on. Also the window directly behind Andy's desk gets moved on down towards the corner of the wall later since most of the season 2 and later episodes have a solid wall behind Andy's desk with a map on it. Also in the first episode there is a little swinging gate at the area where you go from the sherriff's office to the jail. This is removed pretty quickly too. Dapper Dan On my word as a gentleman. _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
