Production GuideObservations: The Troubled Spirit
Production Guide
As the camera tracks down the corridor towards Hydroponics Unit 2, we pass a communications post. On the sign pointing left it says "Hydroponics Unit 2", but the actual Hydroponics Unit 2 is visible beyond. Later, when the camera tracks out of the Unit past the same communications post, the opposite signs can be seen. Seen from this side, "Hydroponics Unit 2" points to the other direction (still not in the direction we came from).
As the camera tracks through the door of Hydroponics, the shadow of the cameraman can be seen on the door frame (or is it Mateo's ghost?)
As the camera tracks towards the window, we can see a white reflection moving over the shoulder of the man on the left. This is probably the camera crew.
Helena's commlock prop is different when she uses it. When she sees the ghost in Medical, her commlock has all 9 keypad buttons with numbers. In the next scene as she explains to Koenig, the prop on her belt is missing the top left button and none of them have numbers.
One wall of the Hydroponics Unit is a large window to the lunar surface (probably inspired by the film Silent Running which featured a spaceship with domes full of plants). The painted backdrop of the lunar surface is barely glimpsed, but this shot shows a painted antenna.
There are many reflections of lights and indistinct shapes of camera equipment in the glass, but this shot reveals the ghostly head of a man in glasses, top left.
Koenig orders "restrict access for everyone except Doctor Russell, Professor Bergman, Doctor Mathias and myself." Yet a guard (Tony Allan) is present at the door.
Bergman's forcefield terminals are actually National PB3 folding flash guns with a metal spike where the bulb should be screwed in. The same type of flash guns (possibly these props) were used as hand-held scanners in Year 2.
Who's at the recital? There are 34 people (including Jim Sullivan, the musician). Note that almost everyone here also appears in the corridor evacuation scene later.
Copyright Martin Willey.