Cape Fear 1991

This remake by Martin Scorsese features some very realistic miniature house boat effects supervised by Derek Meddings.

The miniature eventually disintegrates in a storm lashed river in a very effective manner. As the model is smashed and stripped during its destruction, there is a fidelity apparent in the materials and the method of construction used in the model, that matches a full sized house boat very convincingly.

Behind the scenes

The movie

     
                     

Botany Bay 1953

This film can be found in its entirety on You tube. The quality of the pictures is not the greatest, the source looks to be digitised from a VHS recording off TV.

There are some pretty decent model ship effects supervised by Paramount studios' photographic effects chief Gordon Jennings, however the scenes set in Australia are pretty unconvincing with a couple of Koalas in a tree in a studio set.