[KeyLargo]

Just a thought on How Hillary can increase turnouts at her speeches:

Georgetown Blames Low Turnout At Hillary Clinton Speech On Final Exams

Amanda Macias and Hunter Walker

Dec. 3, 2014

UniversityFormer Secretary of State Hillary speaks at Georgetown University on December 3, 2014.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Georgetown Institute For Women, Peace and Security and it seems like hardly anyone showed up.

[Perseverando]

Oh crap! More democrat voters!

[Sgt_Schultze]

That’s a racist looking prop

[Ray76]

The Dems used them at their convention

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Inflatable people have rights too!!

[golux]

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[cuban leaf]

Actually, this is old stuff. There were a lot of cardboard cutouts in the crowd in The Natural - 1984.

“About 3,000 people were recruited to play extras in the stands — at the then-minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. Obviously, there still weren’t enough folks to fill the stadium. According to a contributor to Digital City Buffalo’s Movies bulletin board, “FN Burt, [a printing company] made cardboard people to be placed in the stadium during filming to cut back on the cost of extras.””

From here: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020918.html

[V_TWIN]

OMG, their all CRACKERS!

[a fool in paradise]

They look like Bob Dole and OJ Simpson!

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Many, many years ago there was a special on TV about cut-outs of people being used to fill stadiums in movies. They were called, if I remember correctly, hanging cut-outs to simulate stadiums being full.

[Stegall Tx]

I was warm scenery for a Scott Bakula flick called “Necessary Roughness”. Filmed at North Texas State and they paid us with a boxed lunch and a lottery for a car.

It was interesting watching how the film was made and how mad the powers that be got at the bored crowd for behaving like a bored crowd.

[Vince Ferrer]

Sports teams fake their crowds.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"On the set of any movie, along with the crew, actors and stunt doubles you'll also have 'extra's' - people like you and I paid to simply be a warm prop, background fodder if you will."

My parents (now that they are long retired and have nothing to do) have been doing work on movies filmed locally for a while now. However, they are not called extras. Extras are people that may have contact with the movie stars or even a speaking part occasionally. However, the term for the people that you see just milling around, the "background fodder" is background. From what my parents told me, it's a big difference between background and extras. Extras is a big step up. They are obviously "background"....

[Oatka]

The Chinese did it the hard way:

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Not new. Dummies were used for some of the wounded soldiers at the train yard in GONE WITH THE WIND. The Union (Organized labor) protested but caved when not enough live extras could be found for the scene.

I still like epics with a cast of thousands! FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, HELEN OF TROY(1956), EL CID, BONDARCHUK’S WAR AND PEACE, WATERLOO.

Now you press a keyboard and you have a cast of ten thousand.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Canedawg]

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