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Why don't most houses and apartments on TV and movies have screened windows? And screened doors of houses?

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Posted - May 25, 2020
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  • 10052
    My guess is that they interfere with the shots when filming inside looking outside. I know they interfere with my wildlife shots from inside my house. 
      May 25, 2020 10:46 AM MDT
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  • Why doesn't anyone use the bathroom during a show?
      May 25, 2020 10:55 AM MDT
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  • 44654
    Yeah...only if the scene takes place in it. Can you imaging June Cleaver saying..."I gotta go take a crap."?
      May 25, 2020 11:12 AM MDT
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  • I'd stay tuned.
      May 25, 2020 11:13 AM MDT
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  • 23659
    [ That'd be way too much Beave? ;) ]
      May 25, 2020 4:55 PM MDT
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  • 11105
    Fun fact - 'Leave It To Beaver' was the first TV show to feature a toilet. It was supposed to be the first episode, but there was a delay in airing it while the censors decided whether or not to allow it. If I remember correctly, the boys got an alligator as a pet and kept in in the toilet tank. Only the tank was shown, not the whole toilet - that's probably how they got away with it.
      May 25, 2020 8:47 PM MDT
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  • 10664
    1.  There are no bugs allowed on set (against union rules).
    2.  They deflect light, making things look blurry (does that screen make my butt look fat?). 
    3.  They cost extra (they are on a budget, you know)
      May 25, 2020 11:24 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    I guess it has to do with the cameras' having difficulty with 'timing.'  I have seen striped shirts on TV that looked really weird. The lines were confusing to the electron gun in the camera. 
      May 25, 2020 11:25 AM MDT
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  • 44654
    I don't think cameras use electron guns.
      May 25, 2020 12:07 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     

    cameras’ — plural possessive noun (belonging to the cameras)
      cameras — plural noun (more than one camera)

      May 25, 2020 4:49 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    What are screened doors of houses? And on "The Brady Bunch," how did nine people share one bathroom?
      May 25, 2020 11:31 AM MDT
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  • 44654
    We call them storm doors here in the Midwest. They are outer doors that help keep oot weather and allow fresh air through the screen when the weather is pleasant. This one is similar to ours.

      May 25, 2020 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 23659
    I don't know.
    Good eye to you, though! :)

    And somewhere on the site over the past year or so, I posted some sort of post about a scene in "The Birds" that had four characters walking toward a door, opening the door and walking through the door -- and the door itself is never seen.
    :)

    But it's good to see you. Well - - I can't actually see you but you know what I mean. :)


      May 25, 2020 1:58 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    I catch stuff all of the time. Clocks that don't move, Passersby on sidewalks are not the same...all kinds of stuff. My wife hates when I do that.
      May 25, 2020 5:17 PM MDT
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  • 23659
    I really like your eye to catch stuff like that. I sometimes get details and sometimes not.

    Hey -- your eye for detail and what you said here reminds me of "The Shawshank Redemption" -- and one day "on the set" I was talking to one of the Extras Leaders / Captains ( he was really nice and funny) and he was telling me how detailed and careful they had to be in assigning guys in the background scenes and paying attention to what scenes were being filmed and where the scenes happened in the the plot -- because the movie takes place over a span of a couple of decades, maybe? And they had to make sure that viewers would not notice and say "Hey, that guy in the background - - he looks exactly the same as he did 25 years ago!"
    :)
    :)
      May 25, 2020 5:24 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    It's called continuity...a lost art. I find so many errors in the TV show 'The Last Ship', I had to stop watching it. Shows with a military them need good consultants. I would have been a great one.
      May 25, 2020 5:30 PM MDT
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  • 23659
    Yeah, "continuity" -- that's the word. I've not watched "The Last Ship."

    Thanks for your service, again.  I have a lot of challenges even trying to comprehend the challenges and requirements, participating in that kind of service. I have several very good military friends and they seem to agree I might not be too effective in that type of role, ha.
    :)
      May 25, 2020 5:46 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      It was either “Ben Hur” or “Cleopatra” that had a scene where one of the extras was wearing a wristwatch and another scene with a sports car driving by in the background. 

    ~

      May 25, 2020 9:52 PM MDT
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  • 23659
    Speaking of sadness (on my mind after answering your question) -- somehow such things can sadden me, too;  everyone making a movie, even though trying to do the best they all can do, things can still slip by.
      May 25, 2020 10:03 PM MDT
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  • 34452
    Most new homes do not have screen doors IRL either.  Why? New doors are too pretty to cover up. 


      May 25, 2020 5:50 PM MDT
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  • 44654
    That one...yeah. Not mine.
      May 25, 2020 8:48 PM MDT
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  • 34452
    Mine either. We have a screen door. I would love to replace with the door above. 
      May 26, 2020 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 17620
    Windows are much more attractive without screens; some HOAs prohibit using them on street-facing windows.  
      May 25, 2020 7:11 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    My guess...
    The film director or set designer is focused on what best shows the story.
    We see out the window or door because they want us to see what a character is looking at.
    If the setting or action required a particular kind of screen it would definitely be included.
      May 25, 2020 8:33 PM MDT
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