No horsing around, an eastern Iowa man says he’s extremely proud of the new film “Seabiscuit” and he should be, since he helped make it. Troy Peters worked for four months on several locations across the U-S as a set-dresser for the action drama, which is based on a real-life race horse during the 1930s. Peters, who lives in Tipton, is on the set when the filming is being done to make sure the set decoration looks like the directors and producers want it to look, making it look as authentic as possible to try and fool people into believing it’s an actual location. Peters says it’s a bigger challenge to shoot a film in modern day that’s supposed to be taking place 60 or 70 years ago. “Seabiscuit” was set in the 1930s and ’40s and it took him to race tracks in New York, Kentucky and California. He says it’s hard to avoid putting technology into the frame — things like satellite dishs, antennaes and jumbo-tron-type big screen T-Vs at the race tracks. As a bonus, Peters says his son Andrew came to visit the shoot in Kentucky and is visible in a race track crowd scene. Peters saw the film in Iowa City over the weekend and was very pleased with the end result, especially after he enjoyed the book so much. He’s also done set dressing on films including: “Catch Me If You Can,” “Eight Mile,” “Twister,” “L.A. Confidential,” “Bridges of Madison County” and “Pleasantville.”
