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Full-scale movie set of the battleship Yamato in Onomichi [3]
June 27, 2006, Onomichi, Hiroshima Pref, Japan. Writing: by Omami
Open period of the Yamato movie set came to end great success!!
An open period of the Yamato movie set ended on May 7, 2006. The original last day was March 31, but it was postponed for a favorable reception. Japan was consecutive holidays that is called "Golden Week" from the end of April to the beginning of May. Many tourists visited to watch the last imposing figure of the battleship Yamato from all over Japan to Onomichi, Hiroshima prefecture in these consecutive holidays. On May 6 that was the day before of the last day, people stood in a long line waited for 4 hours. (The last day was rainy.)
Open to the public of the battleship Yamato movie set started from July 17, 2005. Targets of total attendance was 250,000 people, but it drew audiences totaling 1,000,000 people as a result. This event came to the end of its 10 months run enjoying a favorable reception from the public.
(The left image was reprinted from then Asahi.com.)
The battleship Yamato movie set was dismantled from May 11, 2006 to the middle of June. About 50 workers stripped off the wooden deck with small shovel car and hoisted the sub-turret with a crane. The dismantling cost was about 50,000,000 yen.
The main gun barrel, machine gun and so on are transferred to Yamato museum of Kure-city. Properties and costumes of the film are transferred to Onomichi-city. (Onomichi is famous city as a Japanese movie location site, and they make it tourist attractions.)
(The right image was reprinted from then the Chugoku Shimbun ONLINE.)
I tried to observe dismantling work of the movie set by RCC live cam in Onomichi. Unfortunately it was not able to be accessed. When the live cam was restored, it was already the end of May. I began observing on the day.
This is not a picture by RCC live cam but it taken by my friend last April. I put it for comparison. This side is the bridge, and inner part is the bow.
May 25, 2006
I began to observe the dismantling of Yamato movie set by RCC live cam from this day. Half month passed from a dismantling work start. She had already been dismantled of her bow, turrets, and a lot of guns.
June 01, 2006
Dismantling of the deck was finished. And dismantling of the bridge was begun.
June 06, 2006
The bridge became only steel frames. The number of crane trucks were increased two to hoist the huge steel frames.
June 08, 2006
The bridge was completely dismantled, and foundation of the movie set began to be dismantled.
June 12, 2006
Dismantling of the foundation was finished. Remaining work is only carrying out of the steel frames piled up there.
June 13, 2006
All steel frames and scraps were carried out. There were only a few trucks and a small shovel car for clear away.
June 15, 2006
The dismantling work was completed. The movie set of battleship Yamato that was a great success was removed from this place, and it returned to a silent abolition dock.
And Then There Were None...
The first half part of the dismantling that I could not observe is introduced following blog. (Japanese)
- http://onomichi.no-blog.jp/log/2006/05/_part2_e036.html (Please copy & paste this URL)
I have updated the report about film set of battleship Yamato four times since May of last year, and it is an end this time. I was happy for this one year.
Good]by Yamato!
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