The Longship company was contacted by Curtis Productions as it seems they thought Skelmir and our company of historical re-enactors would fit right in for a production on which they were working. However, since the subject was "Atlantis", some adjustments had to be made. Remove the Dragon's Prow from Skelmir and you had a pretty good representation of a square sailed Mediterranean vessel of the Greek myth of Atlantis time. Since we regularly portray Vikings we could adjust to portray Phoenicians, with a new wardrobe of course. So that's what we did, in the middle of January, 2005 on Canyon Lake, near New Braunfels, Texas. |
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Skelmir
sans Dragon Prow looking like it could be of ancient Mediterranean origin
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may be alright for the sunny Mediterranean but its mid January, no sun,
cold enough to see your breath and, look how they had us dressed | |
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The
film and production crew stayed in their nice warm jackets and footgear
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between scenes, the more intelligent of us sought some warmer covering | |
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First
we had to row up the lake while the film crews shoot from the chase
boats
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we sailed down the lake. We repeated this four times before the day
was out. | |
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Meanwhile,
the rest of the Longship Company spectators stayed nice and comfortable
on the chase boats. All in all, we spent nearly 9 hours going up and
down the lake and numerous scenes on the shore for a grand total of
1 minute and 42 seconds of us being shown when the one hour long program
finally aired on the History Channel | ||
