Wednesday, February 16 2005 @ 04:04 PM CST
X-Files Mythology
 Fox Home Entertainment is releasing a new DVD series on the X-Files Mythology. Garnet operated camera for local director David Vandas as we interviewed some of the production crew from those early days of filming in Vancouver. We had a very relaxed day as we listened to the crazy stories of how they produced some of those amazing shots. People like Shirley Inget (Set Decorator), Rob Maier (Construction Coordinator)  and Toby Lindala (FX- Makeup)In 1992, Lindala was hired to simulate blood running unexpectedly from a girl's nose in the middle of a two-minute monologue for an obscure TV pilot called The X-Files. "We did this prosthetic that went down this girl's forehead, down one side of her nose," Lindala recalled. "It was a little wacky, but it worked fine. Thank God." Lindala was called back for more work that first year: Getting worms to burst out of three actors and a dog in the episode Ice -- "a neat little gag" -- and an otherworldly extraterrestrial pickled in a jar for the season-ending cliffhanger, The Erlenmeyer Flask. Lindala worked by himself, handling effects and creating prosthetic moulds, and operating out of the basement of his Vancouver home. The next year, his workload doubled and he hired three assistants. |
