What's Behind The Clock Tower? | Back to the Future

What's Behind The Clock Tower? | Back to the Future | Retro Recipes

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@chane2k1 4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad to see the original building face is still actually there, hidden. When I started seeing the new face of the courthouse I was appalled that they'd even consider replacing it.

@coffeecuparcade 4 ай бұрын

One of the greatest "behind the scenes" I have ever seen on Back to the Future. Thank you so much Perifractic!!!! My kids watched with me and now they want to see the movie. You have inspired them! 10/10 mate

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Glad it did the trick!

@coffeecuparcade 4 ай бұрын

@@RetroRecipes Great Scott!!!!!

@gswithen 4 ай бұрын

I worked on the Universal backlot several times. The first being in 1991 on the film, Newsies. It was magical to see the set.

@Yuushiboy 4 ай бұрын

No one can pull me back to the 80s like you! I feel warm inside with every Retro Recipe! You do it with passion and that shines through every episode! From the bottom of my heart, thank you for what you do for me and others! ♥

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹

@kylereese4822 4 ай бұрын

@@RetroRecipes Fun Fact, there are 2 DeLorean's in Back to the Future 2 the other is Centauri`s Starcar from the movie The Last Star Fighter... and technically it`s a 4 door DeLorean.... :):)

@tommyovesen 4 ай бұрын

Being from Norway I can proudly say that I visited the Universal Studios theme park in Hollywood twice. It was great!

@derekllewellyn6663 4 ай бұрын

I remember it being called back in time time travel into really real life look back

@magiccheeseball 4 ай бұрын

That's really cool that's a long way to see it I live in the USA and have never even been there but at least I've seen some other screen used stuff at the Universal Studios down the street from me in Orlando

@glennlrw 4 ай бұрын

I really enjoy the voice of our host in this video.

@MrBrandonOBrien 4 ай бұрын

You’re raising the bar with each episode. Well done 🎉

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@activeobserver6503 4 ай бұрын

This was fantastic, Perifractic. You are so respectful and reverent of our formative childhood memories. Kudos to Universal Studios and the based production managers who were so generous, lenient and trusting while you captured the nostalgia for our enjoyment.

@dembalachannel 4 ай бұрын

One of the best and most entertaining video you have ever made bro. Highlight of my day. Bravo!

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Brill to hear!!

@ThundercatDarklion 3 ай бұрын

Awesome!!!! I am an Back to The Future fan. Also a 1980s kid and a 1990s Teen. I turned age 44 on July 28th.

@merman1974 4 ай бұрын

That's great fun. Seeing behind the facade is cool - when you climbed up, it reminded me of the Back to the Future DLC for Powerwash Simulator where you get to clean the clocktower!

@bruehlt 3 ай бұрын

I just discovered your channel - thanks for bringing me back to my childhood - the BTTF movies were some of the best movies of all time! Also, I wasn't aware that the clock tower was featured in so many other productions!! Freakin' awesome!!

@joen8529 4 ай бұрын

9:55 Christopher Lloyd said recently in a video filmed at a major collectors’ house that indeed, Christopher himself was lifted (?) up to the clock. But he was indeed up there! 😎

@ccj79 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for all this episodes and the 80 nostalgia A Portoghese guy living in Italy

@jonathanthomas4722 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Christopher Loyd stated in an interview that he was lifted in a cherry picker to the clock from the outside where technicians where leaning from the inside-out to strap him in.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Great Scott!

@magicknight8412 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking us with you on these retro adventures, seeing things most of us would never get the chance to see. Nice one !

@trackah123 4 ай бұрын

So cool to see behind the scenes like that, big part of my childhood all those movies. Greetings from The Netherlands.

@CodeProfessor 4 ай бұрын

Before I clicked the video, I spent an embarrassing number of seconds looking at the thumbnail wondering why Michael J. Fox had facial hair. 😂

@VectrexForever 4 ай бұрын

"He reminds me of someone... wait a minute, is this a Retro Recipes video?"

@fabriziotamigi972 4 ай бұрын

As of today, Michael J. Fox actually has facial hair! 😂

@Buyemsellem 4 ай бұрын

I was more interested in where the authentic bttf life preserve came from, are they actually still available 😅

@derekllewellyn6663 4 ай бұрын

@@fabriziotamigi97260 years tram tour guide Legends of universal studios hollywood 60 years and New 🆕 in side effects from universal studios hollywood

@Pug71 4 ай бұрын

Me too😂

@basvanteylingen_ 4 ай бұрын

Amazing video! Thank you!

@Quacks0 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing (and trepidatiously exploring --- if I'm making a movie of a locale of interest, I, too, try to do the exact same thing as you did; namely, go everywhere in the scene that an audience who's viewing my video would likely be curious about, so that my camera can capture all of the interesting/lovely details!) this timeless treasure! :D :D

@davidh4548 4 ай бұрын

Wow!!! Okay, this is my favorite behind the scenes reveal of the year!!! I'm sooo glad yhe original columns are still there and just cleverly hidden!

@virtualpaintstudio 4 ай бұрын

I remember Adam the Woo peeking in that door several years back on his channel "The Daliy Woo", confirming that there is another facade under that current one. ....Bring the 1980's facede back. Dang, it looked better and more real looking. ...Great video; Thank you!

@silentvoidx9267 4 ай бұрын

I noticed it in the twilight zone just yesterday!

@JeffBreyer 4 ай бұрын

Back to the Future is my absolute favourite movie. Great to see some love for it here.

@ericflower9855 4 ай бұрын

the best KZbin add ..not add I've seen in some time..

@germaninvenice 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely incredible footage. I’ve been to many movie locations from back to the future. This is on my bucket list. To match up pictures at Courthouse Square. I did not met the right person to get permission any advice. Thank you German in Venice.

@elissitdesign 4 ай бұрын

I feel so much better knowing the original facade is still in place! Wow wow wow. It’s perfect.

@arri275555 4 ай бұрын

I worked on the lot about 3 weeks after the fire in 08. It was so heart breaking seeing all of that section completely destroyed. I got to stand on those steps at an event in 2016. I didn't know the columns were still there. That so awesome and you are so lucky.Thank you I really enjoyed the video.

@jimbotron70 3 ай бұрын

Also in that fire many master tapes from relevant recordings were lost, the storage building was just next to the square.

@tonifreeman4947 4 ай бұрын

I love the "times up runt" scene with tannen and Marty

@stephanepiquemal8297 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the visit, what an awesome place!

@DeloreanRental 4 ай бұрын

Yep, have been in many times. We have also been on the roof, it's pretty amazing, but a little sketch as well. It is still a working set BTW... a lot of stuff continues to be filmed there which is amazing.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Haha yep that's why I didn't go all the way up!

@more.power. 4 ай бұрын

"Wow, this video is absolutely mind-blowing! It's mesmerizing to embark on a journey to see where 'Back to the Future' was filmed. Perifractic, you've taken us to a place we've only ever dreamed of visiting. Your attention to detail and passion truly shine through, making this an unforgettable experience. Thank you for sharing this incredible adventure with us!"

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. It was my pleasure, really.

@Landrew0 4 ай бұрын

A wonderful Saturday morning excursion, while enjoying bagels and coffee. Thanks.

@TheBowersj 4 ай бұрын

kudos to Universal Studios for envisioning a future where the original studio sets would become a role playing/tourist paradise for all of us kids that lived this 20 years or more ago. I honestly can't believe this isn't a tour yet based on the popularity of the studio lot tours and the BTF movies. Universal missed out on using this lot during the filming of wandavision as that would of fit well in this area, though Disney handled it in my opinion. Thanks for the virtual onset tour.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Kudos indeed. I'm fairly sure if you book a VIP tour and it isn't being used that day for filming, they will swing you by there and inside the courthouse.

@JeffWeselyan 4 ай бұрын

@@RetroRecipesvery cheesy lol but love it

@JeffWeselyan 4 ай бұрын

@@RetroRecipes u just earned new subscriber! Keep it up I love it

@High.Sobriety 4 ай бұрын

this was awesome!

@tomwilson2112 4 ай бұрын

I’m always watching to see what films and/or TV shows are filmed there. Never disappointed when I see a new one.

@guillaumemaurice3503 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video that was so amazing. 😀 I am a massive fan of the Back to the future movies and I have the trilogy set. 💞

@falksweden 4 ай бұрын

Fascinating! Thank for bringing us with you!

@djvoo19 4 ай бұрын

Wow just wow wow wow. Unbelievable you are so lucky to get to go there. Great video 👍

@FreeJohnDoe2006 4 ай бұрын

It was also used in the tv series weird science

@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P 4 ай бұрын

this was awesome I would be running around throwing out lines from 'Back to the Future'

@egroegartfart 4 ай бұрын

I know where the clock is from the clock tower. This is so weird. A video popped up on my feed so I clicked on it. This dad and son in Massachusetts have the largest back to the future movie memorabilia collection and they have the clock. Their collection is unbelievable. Christopher Lloyd was in the video also and went to see all the stuff. What a cool video. They have hundreds and probably thousands of original props from the movies. It's crazy. Cool video to watch. It's just weird but good that it just popped up a couple days after I watched this video. Well, mystery solved.

@bobdefalco 4 ай бұрын

That really is a special place; I've been several times and it always impresses. "Hallowed ground" indeed!

@gmirwin 4 ай бұрын

Turbo Boost is great, but imagine if KITT had a hover conversion. At least he always arrives on time, even without a Flux Capacitor. Great video, Peri!

@PlayBASIC-Developer 4 ай бұрын

Incredible .. Thanks for taking the time to bring back so many memories for this coder!

@LeShark75 4 ай бұрын

My God I'd have been through that door at the top of the tower to see what was still there Lol. Brilliant episode again, love the Cinema from Gremlins at the end of the street too.

@raypierce5818 4 ай бұрын

This video back so many great memories! About a decade ago, I was hired to rig and stunt coordinate a 500 foot zip line coming from the clock tower down to the street below for a BTTF event. I literally took that same path up to the roof. Unfortunately, the small door you saw just leads to the inside of the façade. For the film, there were several ports that you could remove to get outside that small ledge. When they rebuilt the top, they didn’t put those in so there is no way to get to that ledge easily. Once I rigged the 3/8 inch steel cable and cut it locked off on both ends, I had to climb up on the roof, then hold onto the line at the edge and swing down and then jumped over to reach the ledge below. Lol… Yes, I have pictures! Then I had the Zipline trolley and was the first one to test the system, as I usually am.. Yes, the zip line was insanely fun but getting to that launch spot was always a pain! The biggest problem for installing it was that that top peak with the clock façade didn’t have much structure up there so we had to run it back another 85 feet to get to the steel behind it. Even with all that trouble it was still such a joy to get to bring that scene to life.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

That's incredible. If you'd like to please share the photos/video at retrorecip.es/submit and I can share it on The ЯRetro Show 🙏

@raypierce5818 4 ай бұрын

@@RetroRecipes I was busy setting this up but a friend did manage to document some of the fun!. I sent what I had!

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

@@raypierce5818 Received with thanks!

@stuartclark3779 4 ай бұрын

I like how your fingertips are touching when in auto cruise, they had him do it likely to emphasise KITT driving, nice details 😎

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. That's a pose Michael Knight would often adopt, likely for that reason.

@tbonemaloneknowsitall 4 ай бұрын

in 1994, I saw the whole BTTF downtown set at Universal Studios Hollywood. --

@alexk3948 4 ай бұрын

I visited around 35 years ago when they had the empty water pool outside. Love that place.

@smrp1984 4 ай бұрын

I enjoy all of your content but this especially I feel like I need to say thank you for!

@tinovanderzwan-km7ou 4 ай бұрын

I met Christopher Lloyd about 20 years ago and, he's a darling! I forgot what the event was about but I met him early in the event and we tugged along as mates from morning to the after party post 10 in the evening and past 12 at night! we had some amazing teriyaki chicken drumsticks in between! the very ones I'm going to make for my extended family tomorrow just a dab to the past into the future!

@deniswalch8280 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic !!! Thanks for the video, the editing, this brings back so many memories !! This is really great.

@roycem4945 4 ай бұрын

the two clock tower panthers "cats" are actually from the movie Cat People 1982. The Universal prop department made several cats for the movie's faux zoo set - and later the art director on Back to the Future re-used them. You can see the "cats" in the movie Cat People - located above the entrance/cages of the panthers.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Great info thanks!

@freshtapcoke 4 ай бұрын

I was like wow, how did you get this kind of access and just now realized you’re in the industry!

@dazecivic 4 ай бұрын

As a big back to the future fan I’ve always wanted to see what inside the clock tower looked like!!! This is awesome

@sokola311 4 ай бұрын

That was incredible. Thank you!! :)

@ajkradio8398 4 ай бұрын

Tugging at my childhood / Adult heart strings, we had the best childhood

@itsmephil2255 4 ай бұрын

1 thing iv just noticed, in '2015' Hill Valley there is a massive scotch mark on the clock face from the lightning strike ⚡

@Doesnotcare12 4 ай бұрын

Just started watching and I have goosebumps already.

@squib311 4 ай бұрын

Construction workers are the unsung heroes of Hollywood.

@jprexthegeek5049 4 ай бұрын

At least the original facade is well protected from the elements as the new one covers it up. They can always remove the new one. Great video!

@georgemccune2923 4 ай бұрын

What's crazy is that in the small town i live in we had an old bank that looked very similar to how that building looked in the movie minus the clock on the front but with the 4 columns and it sat vacant for nearly 20 years until a coin and card shop moved in and the had the front of the building under construction forever and when done it was just awful and people complained and threw fits because it did not fit in with all the rest of how downtown looked and after 10 years or so they went out of business and the building was bought by a Jewelry store that was expanding and moving from another location. A week after they bought the building they were featured in the local paper because it was discovered that that card shop had just done like this is shown in the video around the pillars only he followed on thru on the inside and actually between the pillars and the wall back behind it built rooms for storage. Anyway the paper ran this huge section dedicated to this because even though the jewelry store owner wanted to get his store back open once they had discovered this they decided to rip all the added on stuff down from the building and restore it to how it looked as a bank. they sought out this building because it still had the old huge vault inside. Anyway a few months later they had an open house and i could not even imagine the money they had sank in the place. As an added plus when they were working in the old attic they discovered the original large 4 sided clock that use to sit on a pole on the sidewalk by the curb and that had it rebuilt and installed back where it was close to 100 years before. they are still in business in that building and it looked so nice when it was done it started a whole thing of the other owners restoring the faces of their buildings and now the downtown looks for the most part like it did late 60s to mid 70s it really depended on how crazy the owners went it. the whole downtown looking so nice even gained some attention because some indie filmmaker came here and they shot some 3 part mini series set post vietnam and they used the downtown for a parts of it. I have no idea what it really was and a few people I knew did see it and they said the downtown looked good but the movie was unbearable so i never watched it.

@patrickdodson1713 4 ай бұрын

I get Franchise-ception by KITT mentioning Back to the Future. So wild lol. Nice touch.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

I'd like to think he knew about it at the time. Also note when he drives past the Marty cinema in 1986, there's an ET poster on the cinema wall. Another Franchise-ception.

@TheShornak 4 ай бұрын

That's so cool that the original facade is behind the new facade of the clock tower. I wonder what happened to the original clock. The new one looks less fancy as the original. I still remember touring Universal in the mid 80's and the tram car went pass a car carrier full of KITT Cars. Was pretty cool.

@UrSammich 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if the BTTF super fans (featured on discovery channel) have the clock. They didn't say, but they showed it and it might be a replica. They do have two the cats as well as a few other screen used items.

@UgurOnderBozkurt 4 ай бұрын

10:40 the red boxes are fire alarm system (aes intellinet) also light probably for visual for night. they look like space lights for big areas (like this building)

@AlanEllis-s5g 4 ай бұрын

Long time watcher, first time botherer. We went to Universal Studios Florida (not California) in 1992 and again in 1993 and on one of those occasions, on the back lot tour, amongst various props (Including part of the Casablanca aeroplane) we saw the ‘original clock’ from the BTTF courthouse. So assuming this was the truth it seems it somehow made its way to the other side of the US after the late 80s renovation you describe in the video. I can’t remember if I took a picture - back then you had to use your 24 exposures sparingly so not sure if I deemed it pic worthy at the time. I’d have taken 50 of it now and probably made it my Lock Screen. I’ll have a look though. Brilliant video, absolutely loved it. Thanks!

@voxtek 4 ай бұрын

This is awesome first time I've seen one of your videos and you cover my favorite movie, instant sub!

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

🙌

@slipperyjim1497 4 ай бұрын

Those red lights you saw on stands inside the building are 1000 watt Mole Richardson "pups". Workhorse light from the old days of film/tv before so many lights have been replaced by LED. At one point you see the fresnel lens opened. This is known as "open eye" and was used sometimes to give a harder pin point of light usually to cast hard shadows from blinds and such. This is also how you change the burnt out bulb too, lol.

@mrjsv4935 4 ай бұрын

Very cool to see what's behind that famous clocktower, awesome filming location tour :)

@subman721 4 ай бұрын

I was there on May 29 2023. The clock face was Installed, with the structure in the video.

@trapezekid 4 ай бұрын

Just watched a video and showed the crash that we did through the window on the back to the future part two I am one of the Stuntman on the far right side that went through the window. We did all the Hoverboard stuff.

@surject 4 ай бұрын

Man, almost got tears :/ Btw. music at 8:16 ? Reminds me a lot of Star Citizens' tutorial mission from 2015...

$@jasonfractic595$

@jasonfractic595 4 ай бұрын

Great Scott! 🪖🎖️ I hope you haven't disrupted the space-time continuum! 🪐 🕰️ That would be disastrous! 😂

@tbonemaloneknowsitall 4 ай бұрын

My greatest BTTF experience has to be getting into the church gymnasium where I personally duck walked across the famous stage where Marty played Johnny B Good...I highly recommend it. (as well as seeing the McFly house and Twin/Lone Pine Malls themselves) (real locations). Bucketlist stuff for me ......

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Yup been there too. They were so accommodating!

@dronyland 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video ! You are always realizing all my dreams right there on all your Knight Rider (and Back to the future) videos. 💖

@thewiseman80 4 ай бұрын

in 2008 we got to see the clock tower roof and the cats on our vip tour, the roof was indeed taken off to film ghost whisperer but we got to have a photo whilst leaning in the window dock climbed through. The roof was the original with the 1955 red pristine bricks, and also had some grey paneling on it from bruce almighty. The roof thats on the court house today isnt the original it was completely re built. Wish could post you a photo to show you the original and the cats as well before some were sold to various places.

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Wow! Could you send to it to me via retrorecip.es/submit please? 🙏

@williamnessanbaum7464 4 ай бұрын

Very few people know this: In the footage on the arcade laserdisc, COPS, the court building and behind the building are clearly visible. I'll have to scour KZbin to see if anybody upscaled that footage.

@electronraygun6346 4 ай бұрын

So many of my favourites filmed at that location! Always loved To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Twilight Zone and of course Back to The Future! I always recognise the set and it feels like a kinda second home. Seeing it in The Twilight Zone, even though it was filmed before I was born, it makes it seem more real and vivid somehow, kinda like time travel oddly enough!

@timmooney7528 4 ай бұрын

Interesting how many TV shows and movies used those sets.

@OntheroxwithJameson 4 ай бұрын

When you say, “Don’t try this at home” How can I “try this at Home”? 😂🤦🏽‍♂️😬 Pretty cool content.

@freednighthawk 4 ай бұрын

The lightbulb on a stick you showed is whats known as a "Ghost light". It's a light placed in the middle of a dark stage for safety. You will also see them in used in Theater.

@apb3251 4 ай бұрын

Some high end video production in this one. You’ve come a long way

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹

@MrHeem94 4 ай бұрын

I was blessed to live during 30 years of the last of the old. It will never be that good again. Now, insanity reigns.

@Roger__Wilco 4 ай бұрын

Great video and well produced too, really put a smile on my face!

@thepawll 4 ай бұрын

Nicely done 🙌🏼👏🏼

@ARCE_ANGELS-en4pg 4 ай бұрын

every time he screamed i just died laughing but i loved this video, im just a big fan of back to the future, nothing beats back to the future, nor the classics

@RetroRecipes 4 ай бұрын

😅

@mortenpedersen6149 4 ай бұрын

Always great to see your videos. Thanks for the set tour of my favorit film (BTTF) 👏🏻😃

@lanatrzczka 3 ай бұрын

"Analyzing this footage Devin sent us..." You folks crack me up. At work there is one person who knows what I'm talking about when I deadpan, "We should probably get back to Devin on this..."