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My guess is that this is from the making of the movie MIDWAY.
I’m gonna guess Midway as well –although there are probably a dozen movies about Pacific WWII with these sort of miniature FX that this could have been from.
I agree, but the torpedo bomber in the background makes me think Midway for sure.
Pretty sure the dude on the right is none other than legendary director Akira Kurosawa which would make this Tora! Tora! Tora!
Kurosawa, who was charged with directing all of the Japanese stuff for the film actually did everything in his power to get fired from the movie (and succeeded!) once he found out David Lean wasn’t directing the American half as he was initially told. I think something like a minute of his footage actually made it into the final version of the movie.
I thought it might be Tora! Tora! Tora! also- but they didn’t bomb any aircraft carriers in that movie, so I dismissed the idea. And this appears to be an American carrier- not a Japanese carrier. Why would they have a scale model if they weren’t going to blow it up? We need moar info on the photo!
Sometimes you need to photograph something. If you can’t get, or can’t afford a full size aircraft carrier, you use a model like this.
There is a famous story from when Tony Scott(RIP) was filming top gun. They were filming on a real aircraft carrier and Tony Scott asked the Captain to turn the ship so he could get better lighting. The Captain informed Tony Scott that it cost 25000 dollars to turn the ship, so Tony Scott wrote out a check for 40 grand.
I remember hearing about that. 😀
I think I found it! A 1961 Japanese Toho Studios flick called “Storm over the Pacific” that was re-released as “I Bombed Pearl Harbor” in the U.S.
The actor appears to be Akihiko Hirata (Godzilla) and he is saluting special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Scroll down this page a ways and you’ll find my source: gcaptain.com/week-ending-april-twenty-three/
Studios re-used these big models all the time, so it might have been in several films. The pirate films used these huge models as well, and they would just change the flags and some trim and use them in the next film to save money.
Photographic evidence the giants have a military and all you can talk about is movies?!?