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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Partly because they still had a real corvette to film on.  |
In 1957, when they made the film, "The Yangtse Incident", about HMS
Amethyst being trapped in the Yangtse River by Communist Chinese artillery in 1949, the had the real
Amethyst to film on, but in those pre-CGI days the real explosives used for the special effects did more damage to the ship that the Chinese artillery ever did.