A scene from an episode of NCIS, one of my favourite tv shows. I think it is in series 4. The black car at the foot of the is on its way to a stake out at a nearby warehouse somewhere in Virginia. A reasonably tight shot, but the sunshine in thr bg is not the only problem with this shot. Virginia it ain't: NCIS is shot in California. Smack bang in the middle of the screen is what we on this side of the world call a gum tree.
Here is Agent Ziva aiming at the warehouse, just before the team launch their assault.
This is not the first gum tree I have seen in the movies either. NCIS has a few, and I will go back and look for them. Any film shot in Australia is going to contain lots of them, but I think the it was either The Big Red One or The Thin Red Line where the denouement of the film, set in Europe, takes place beside a tree lined ditch, and every one of those trees is a gum tree.
The tree in the NCIS shot is E. leucoxylon, Blue Gum.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
NCIS
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There are lots of Gums in southern California, aparently they grow well in that climate, and of course have very little in the way of local pests.
I know, however NCIS pretends it is set in the eastern seaboard. I think the film makers don't see what's in front of them because they have always seen gum trees about.The particlar tree is a very fine tree, and I guess it has a trunk of almost 3m in diam, Can't work out what the tarpaulin is doing.
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