The Sci-Fi Corridor Archive
August 11, 2015 11:17 PM Subscribe
Screenshots of corridors from SF movies.
via a comment from this post on ceilings in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Surprisingly not a Tumblr blog.
Also see Anime Power-Lines, previously.
via a comment from this post on ceilings in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Surprisingly not a Tumblr blog.
Also see Anime Power-Lines, previously.
I saw a pic from 'Beneath The Planet of the Apes'. Here's the Mendez dynasty corridor.
posted by clavdivs at 11:33 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by clavdivs at 11:33 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
I love the post about ceilings in Deus Ex
I spoke to gameplay director Patrick Fortier about this at Gamescom and unfortunately it sounds as if sequel Deus Ex: Mankind Divided won’t carry on the game’s ceiling-based legacy in quite the same way. “That dream is dying,” he said.posted by Joe in Australia at 11:35 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
Do music videos count? Because Gesaffelstein's 'Pursuit' is my favorite corridor-based sci-fi film.
posted by dgaicun at 11:57 PM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by dgaicun at 11:57 PM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm glad the Resident Evil films all seem to be about 90% corridor, faithfully recreating the feel of the games.
posted by dng at 2:14 AM on August 12, 2015
posted by dng at 2:14 AM on August 12, 2015
This is one of the ways in which sf films are just like not-sf films. It's not sf that loves corridors, it's film that loves corridors. Why?
1. It's a great place to shoot walking and talking.
b) It's a great place to plausibly hide and force an encounter with antagonist (eg monster, badguy, big bad wolf) or plot point (eg space leak, corpse of redshirt, memorial placque).
iii - They're relatively cheap to build and easy to dolly a camera in.
posted by Herodios at 4:23 AM on August 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
1. It's a great place to shoot walking and talking.
b) It's a great place to plausibly hide and force an encounter with antagonist (eg monster, badguy, big bad wolf) or plot point (eg space leak, corpse of redshirt, memorial placque).
iii - They're relatively cheap to build and easy to dolly a camera in.
posted by Herodios at 4:23 AM on August 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
Not enough Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
posted by fairmettle at 4:29 AM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by fairmettle at 4:29 AM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
iii - They're relatively cheap to build and easy to dolly a camera in.
Also they're infinity reusable. I'm pretty sure that Star Trek:TOS only had one set that it used for every corridor on every ship.
posted by octothorpe at 4:41 AM on August 12, 2015
Also they're infinity reusable. I'm pretty sure that Star Trek:TOS only had one set that it used for every corridor on every ship.
posted by octothorpe at 4:41 AM on August 12, 2015
Star Trek shot everything in one short straight corridor intersecting one semi-circular one, about 45 degrees worth. Surprisingly little. Diagrams abound on the web if you're interested. Puts the Bele/ Lokai chase scene into perspective.
posted by Herodios at 4:52 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Herodios at 4:52 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oooh, I just learned from BBC that "corridor" is somewhat an invention of 19th century Spanish architecture. Previously, to go to a room at the far end of a wing, you had to pass through intervening rooms or go 'round outside. Hallways and paths were more associated with prisons and boarding houses. "No English king at that time would have had a corridor in his palace". So, Who invented the corridor and why? If only by extrapolation, the future has more corridors.
posted by gregoreo at 4:54 AM on August 12, 2015 [25 favorites]
posted by gregoreo at 4:54 AM on August 12, 2015 [25 favorites]
this Guardians of the Galaxy shot immediately preceding this image from Edge of Tomorrow seems like a quiet comment on orange and teal. In contrast, vintage footage from, say 2001, feels more human if less eye-popping
(also, I now feel old because I grew up watching Captain Harlock and this is the first time that I've heard of a CGI update. I'm now wondering if Galaxy Express 999 will ever get the same love)
posted by bl1nk at 5:03 AM on August 12, 2015
(also, I now feel old because I grew up watching Captain Harlock and this is the first time that I've heard of a CGI update. I'm now wondering if Galaxy Express 999 will ever get the same love)
posted by bl1nk at 5:03 AM on August 12, 2015
"No English king at that time would have had a corridor in his palace".
You were lucky. We used to dream of shooting in a corridor. It would have been a palace to us.
posted by Herodios at 5:17 AM on August 12, 2015 [8 favorites]
You were lucky. We used to dream of shooting in a corridor. It would have been a palace to us.
posted by Herodios at 5:17 AM on August 12, 2015 [8 favorites]
Two thoughts:
One, Just because a corridor is in a sci-fi movie doesn't make it a sci-fi corridor (thus the bewildering inclusion of the "Robocop 3" screenshots).
Two, I must seek out this "Space Pirate Captain Harlock"!
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:20 AM on August 12, 2015
One, Just because a corridor is in a sci-fi movie doesn't make it a sci-fi corridor (thus the bewildering inclusion of the "Robocop 3" screenshots).
Two, I must seek out this "Space Pirate Captain Harlock"!
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:20 AM on August 12, 2015
Two, I must seek out this "Space Pirate Captain Harlock"!
Be warned: it is a labyrinth of wonders and terrors.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:22 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Be warned: it is a labyrinth of wonders and terrors.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:22 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
. . . and twisty passages, all alike?
posted by Herodios at 5:31 AM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Herodios at 5:31 AM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
This was super neat, and I hadn't heard of Predestination, and now it's in my DVD queue!
posted by numaner at 5:31 AM on August 12, 2015
posted by numaner at 5:31 AM on August 12, 2015
Also by Serafín Álvarez:
Maze Walkthrough
An interactive virtual maze built by assembling 3D reproductions of various corridors from science fiction films. The environment of an empty video-game: there is no way out, no action, no narrative and no other objective than the exploration of the maze itself. (Scroll down for video)
A Collection of Camera Movements Through Science Fiction Film Corridors
A supercut video with hundreds of clips from films, edited together by associations.
Part of Case Study: Sci-Fi Corridor, a project about corridors in science fiction film.
59 min (color, sound). (Teaser video is at the bottom)
posted by Kabanos at 6:43 AM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
Maze Walkthrough
An interactive virtual maze built by assembling 3D reproductions of various corridors from science fiction films. The environment of an empty video-game: there is no way out, no action, no narrative and no other objective than the exploration of the maze itself. (Scroll down for video)
A Collection of Camera Movements Through Science Fiction Film Corridors
A supercut video with hundreds of clips from films, edited together by associations.
Part of Case Study: Sci-Fi Corridor, a project about corridors in science fiction film.
59 min (color, sound). (Teaser video is at the bottom)
posted by Kabanos at 6:43 AM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
Scifi corridors: Universal tripping hazards.
posted by blue_beetle at 6:49 AM on August 12, 2015
posted by blue_beetle at 6:49 AM on August 12, 2015
I see that WALL-E is included in the Archive, but the animated short BURN-E has been ignored.
Without the corridor, the whole story of BURN-E falls apart.
posted by Kabanos at 6:50 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Without the corridor, the whole story of BURN-E falls apart.
posted by Kabanos at 6:50 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm looking through this for my favorite feature of low-budget sci-fi corridors: plastic shipping pallets as walls.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:56 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:56 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
I watched Alien Resurection again the other night, and learned that they only built two corridors for filming. They progressively darkened the lighting to provide a better feeling of continuity.
posted by Brocktoon at 8:07 AM on August 12, 2015
posted by Brocktoon at 8:07 AM on August 12, 2015
> If only by extrapolation, the future has more corridors.
Indeed, if current rates of corridor expansion continue, it can be reasonably assumed that by the 35th century all new architecture will be entirely corridor.
posted by ardgedee at 8:20 AM on August 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
Indeed, if current rates of corridor expansion continue, it can be reasonably assumed that by the 35th century all new architecture will be entirely corridor.
posted by ardgedee at 8:20 AM on August 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
Two, I must seek out this "Space Pirate Captain Harlock"!
I agree - I don't care that much for hallways/corridors/passages, but I love old sci-fi, and wow did I not know about a wholelotta 70's-80's European sci-fi.
posted by eclectist at 8:40 AM on August 12, 2015
I agree - I don't care that much for hallways/corridors/passages, but I love old sci-fi, and wow did I not know about a wholelotta 70's-80's European sci-fi.
posted by eclectist at 8:40 AM on August 12, 2015
From the plot summary for Space Captain Harlock (source: wikipedia):
"In the future, mankind has discovered a way to travel faster than light and has builtcolonies corridors on thousands of planets."
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 8:46 AM on August 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
"In the future, mankind has discovered a way to travel faster than light and has built
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 8:46 AM on August 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
Well, shit--the novel I've been working on for the last twelve years is also called "Space Pirate Captain Harlock."
posted by Zerowensboring at 8:50 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Zerowensboring at 8:50 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Does the glowing tunnel in The Secret of Bigfoot episode of the Six Million Dollar Man that used the Glacier Avalanche ride at Universal Studios count as a corridor?
posted by straight at 9:25 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by straight at 9:25 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
> "No English king at that time would have had a corridor in his palace"
Wow, thanks for that, gregoreo—that's the most illuminating thing I've read in a while. I'd say it should be its own FPP, but nobody's going to read a 45-page pdf, and it would have just one comment (from me, saying "This is great!"). It's made me look at the world, and my house, in a new way. (Along one axis, the house is old-fashioned, one room leading into the next; along the other, it has rooms opening off a corridor: modernity!) And who knew a corridor was originally for couriers (etymologically, the two words are identical) and it started in 17th-century Italy (not 19th-century Spain, as the BBC seems to have misled you into believing)? Great stuff!
posted by languagehat at 9:26 AM on August 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
Wow, thanks for that, gregoreo—that's the most illuminating thing I've read in a while. I'd say it should be its own FPP, but nobody's going to read a 45-page pdf, and it would have just one comment (from me, saying "This is great!"). It's made me look at the world, and my house, in a new way. (Along one axis, the house is old-fashioned, one room leading into the next; along the other, it has rooms opening off a corridor: modernity!) And who knew a corridor was originally for couriers (etymologically, the two words are identical) and it started in 17th-century Italy (not 19th-century Spain, as the BBC seems to have misled you into believing)? Great stuff!
posted by languagehat at 9:26 AM on August 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
Maze Walkthrough
An interactive virtual maze built by assembling 3D reproductions of various corridors from science fiction films. The environment of an empty video-game: there is no way out, no action, no narrative and no other objective than the exploration of the maze itself. (Scroll down for video)
If you've got a sufficiently beefy computer, that Serafín Álvarez sci-fi corridor walking simulator is pretty mind-warpingly great (although the walking speed is so slow it almost ruins it) and a fun way to test how many corridors you can identify.
posted by straight at 9:33 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
An interactive virtual maze built by assembling 3D reproductions of various corridors from science fiction films. The environment of an empty video-game: there is no way out, no action, no narrative and no other objective than the exploration of the maze itself. (Scroll down for video)
If you've got a sufficiently beefy computer, that Serafín Álvarez sci-fi corridor walking simulator is pretty mind-warpingly great (although the walking speed is so slow it almost ruins it) and a fun way to test how many corridors you can identify.
posted by straight at 9:33 AM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
The original Mission Impossible TV series was all shot in one corridor. Occasionally the corridor was given a set of doors to make it a lift lobby, or some bars to make it a gaol, but it was always recognisably the same corridor. Most distracting once you notice it.
posted by tinkletown at 2:17 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tinkletown at 2:17 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also Star Trek was always shot on the same planet every week, gussied up to look like other planets or even spaceships.
posted by JHarris at 2:37 PM on August 12, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 2:37 PM on August 12, 2015 [5 favorites]
Star Trek was always shot on the same planet every week . . .
;)
posted by rochrobbb at 3:25 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
;)
posted by rochrobbb at 3:25 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
Also see: every story that even briefly has a high-school.
The most memorable corridor shot scenes in cinema to me are not from sci-fi, but from Oldboy and The Professional.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:27 PM on August 14, 2015
The most memorable corridor shot scenes in cinema to me are not from sci-fi, but from Oldboy and The Professional.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:27 PM on August 14, 2015
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