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3 unusual facts about Silent Running


Expo '70

Director Douglas Trumbull said that the design of the space freighter Valley Forge in the 1971 science fiction drama Silent Running was inspired by the Landmark Tower.

John Gaeta

Trumbull was visual effects supervisor for such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as the director of such films as Silent Running and Brainstorm.

Missouri Botanical Garden

Douglas Trumbull, director of the 1972 science fiction classic film Silent Running, stated that the geodesic domes on the spaceship Valley Forge were based on the Missouri Botanical Garden's Climatron dome.


Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

Next to classic feature films as The Fountainhead and Blade Runner or documentaries about architects as Louis Kahn or Frank Gehry, films are screened about the influence of media on the city, the depiction of cities in film and outstanding set design such as in Silent Running.


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