No Animals Were Harmed

We can safely say that no animals were harmed on our last film, Dear J.

Oh… Hmmm… Except… Maybe… One.

Ooopps! Guess we can’t use that statement after all in the film credits. Because, to our knowledge, at least one animal was harmed during the film shoot. And not only harmed, but brutally massacred. Killed. Dead. Gone.

That’s right. A poor house fly lost the battle in the ruthless onslaught against its life.

Here’s what happened. We were filming in "James’ Library". There was fly buzzing about. Now, that might not seem like much, but to the sound guys, this was the end of the world. We needed to get rid of that fly. Quick!

Unfortunately, we were not properly equipped with the right weapons for the mass destruction of flies (Some people like to call these weapons "fly swatters"). So our boom operator decided to take matters into his own hands. Literally. He smacked the fly with the palm of his hand. The fly was dead. But what our boom operator didn’t realize (before committing this rash act) was that the fly would have his revenge.

That clever house fly was sitting on a cement wall. And if you’ve ever smacked your hand against a cement wall, you might find out what our boom operator found out. Your hand gets sprained. He had to keep ice on the hand for days. Not easy to do when you’re trying to hold up a boom microphone. All because of a little sound problem called a fly...

Hmmm. Maybe we should have put:

"No animals--except one house fly--were harmed during the filming of this motion picture."

Well, our next film has animals in it (since it takes place in a Russian village). Guess we'll have to be a little less ruthless. Or maybe get some animal handlers.

{{ photo :: No, it's not the fly. But perhaps it's a close relative of the slain. }}

Note: Again, this was taken from a past post from our other blog. We're finding ourselves with not a lot of time on our hands.