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Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of the CSS Virginia from the remains of the USS Merrimack and the battle between the Virginia and the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862-March 9, 1862.
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Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events behind the creation of the CSS Virginia from the remains of the USS Merrimack and the battle between the Virginia and the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862-March 9, 1862.
Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects | 1991 | Martin
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special | 1991 | Burton
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special | 1991 | George R. Groves
Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special | 1991
The Monitor and the Merrimack were re-created in models one third of their actual size, and the battle scenes between them were filmed in the big tank at Pinewood Studios, England.
Full scale cannons on the ironclads sets and sailing ships were made of fiberglass, designed and molded by armorer Roger Ragland. The molds were pulled from original guns at the Confederate Naval Museum Columbus, Georgia. In total, there were seven guns made: one Brooks Rifle Cannon, two eleven-inch Dahlgrens, and four nine-inch Dahlgrens, as well as three thirty-two pounders from Raglands earlier Glory (1989). A total of ten guns were used in all scenes.
If you watch carefully during the opening credits, you will see a horse fall and the rider strike his head on the ground. That was not an effect, but rather a real event where the rider suffered a head laceration and required transportation to a local hospital. There were multiple cameras used for that shot, and they continued to roll for about twenty seconds to capture the explosion effects before medics were clear to assess and treat the rider.
In a 2017 interview, Alex Hyde-White mentioned that most of the film's extras were Civil War re-enactors who contributed their own costumes, weapons, and props.
Michael Stanton Kennedy (Patten), George Kelly (Greene), J. Michael Hunter (Simms), and Chris Northup (Brown) all went on to make guest appearances on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) while Reed Diamond (Harmon) was a series regular.
"Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Where is the Monitor? Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Commodore Smith? [Smith wordlessly passes a dispatch to Davis] Cmdr. Davis: The Monitor was last sighted off the Delaware-Maryland border, floundering in the very heavy weather. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: In other words, she may already be at the bottom of the ocean! Abraham Lincoln: I'm sure the Monitor is still afloat. I look for her to be the veritable sling with a stone that smites the Merrimack Philistine in the forehead. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Mr. President, do you really have that much faith in Ericsson's untested experiment? Abraham Lincoln: I have that much faith in Providence, which did not create this great Union to see it be destroyed by the invention of a weapon. If the Monitor doesn't stop the Merrimack, something else will. Good night, gentlemen."
"Abraham Lincoln: [after meeting John Ericsson and viewing the Monitor concept] Unassuming son of Sweden, isn't he? Cmdr. Davis: [sourly] He didn't mention that a cannon on the Princeton blew up and killed some people. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Ericsson designed that cannon, but he had nothing to do with building it. Well, gentlemen? Yes or no? Commdr. Smith: We have information from Gosport that the Merrimack will come out of the drydock in four to five months. No one can start from scratch and build us an ironclad in that time except Ericsson. He's promised to deliver us one within ninety days. On that basis, I say yes. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Commodore? Commdr. Paulding: I agree with Commodore Smith. Cmdr. Davis: I say take the thing home and worship it! It resembles nothing on the earth, or in the seas or in the skies, so you can't be accused of idolatry. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: A simple 'no' would have sufficed, Commander. Mr. President? Abraham Lincoln: [studying the Monitor model] All I can say is what the girl said when she put her foot in the stocking. It strikes me there's something in it."
