Fictional Towers - Middle-Earth Towers, Cirith Ungol, Icy Tower, Towers of High Sorcery, Stark Tower, Titans Tower, Money Bin, Glass Towe (Paperback)

Chapters: Middle-Earth Towers, Cirith Ungol, Icy Tower, Towers of High Sorcery, Stark Tower, Titans Tower, Money Bin, Glass Tower, Orthanc, Elostirion, Tower of Ecthelion, Tower of Amon Sul, Carchost, Narchost, Durin's Tower, Barad Eithel, Barad Nimras, Calmindon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 218. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Trailer from the film.The Glass Tower is the fictional skyscraper featured in the 1974 Irwin Allen disaster film The Towering Inferno .Filming Faye Dunaway in a scene from The Towering Inferno .Interiors The Glass Tower was designed by production illustrator Dan Goozee under the direction of the production designer William J. Creber. The largest of these was a 70 feet (21 m) model built on the concrete floor of the man-made Sersen Lake at the Twentieth Century-Fox Ranch located in Malibu.Irwin Allen Productions utilized a 340 feet (100 m) cyclorama of the San Francisco skyline for the view outside the Promenade Room windows. This artwork was completed by set designer Gary Coakley. (The cyclorama was also utilised in the Paramount Pictures, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in 1986)The view depicted from the Glass Tower would be one seen from a vantage point 1,800 feet (550 m) above the center of San Francisco looking across the bay towards Oakland . The lights, which appeared to twinkle, were made by punching small holes in the backing and placing small quartz lights behind them. Blinking lights, representing aircraft warning lights on radio antennae and high hills, were lighted with red Christmas tree decorative lights. Shimmer was created on the "bay" waterby cutting slightly curly slits in the backing and hanging silk strips behind the backing. The strips were back lit and activated by gently by air fans to give the illusion of wave movement.The scenes involving the water tanks and the ...