Re: Real HV Facility on TV?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

One can write to the production company and ask..
There's not a huge number of these labs around, so if you can find out what
part of the country they were in, generally, you can make some good guesses.
You could also look at pictures from the labs on their websites and compare.

Of course, bear in mind that with modern compositing technology, depending
on the shot, the HV lab could have been just a background plate from some
stock footage.


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Subject: Real HV Facility on TV?


 > Original poster: David Speck <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>
 >
 > Group:
 > This is a bit OT, but last night, they re-ran an episode of Stargate SG-1
 > entitled "Space Race"  that seems to have been filmed in some sort of real
 > life high voltage test facility.
 >
 > There were large skeleton toroids made of concentric tube rings hanging on
 > the walls, and a number of very authentic looking  HV devices on a grand
 > scale, including a Marx generator, and a couple of large voltage dividers
 > or cap towers.  Looks too large and authentic to be a movie set.  Ceiling
 > was at least 60 - 75 feet high.  I think I saw the same facility in an old
 > X-files episode (one of the season closers, IIRC)
 >
 > Anyone have any idea where it might have been filmed?  It would be a
really
 > neat place to visit.
 >
 > Dave
 >
 >