daifly
Western Thunderer
Please Sir, me Sir. For a very similar reason! But I just let it pass.
Dave
Sister Boniface Mysteries - where filmed?
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JimG
Western Thunderer
Good lord - just googled it and it's all there on Youtube.
Jim.
Boyblunder
Western Thunderer
For purely research reasons I watched the new BBC show "Famous 5 and the Curse of Kirrin Island" The Famous Five - CBBC - BBC. Can someone else on this forum also watch it please and tell me what train is shown taking the kids up to the Smoke from Dorset?
The conclusion of my research is that it will be a suitable programme for my 9 year old grandson to watch over the Christmas period but he is not going to be at all happy with the train.
The conclusion of my research is that it will be a suitable programme for my 9 year old grandson to watch over the Christmas period but he is not going to be at all happy with the train.
Osgood
Western Thunderer
Tried a short cut googling Famous 5 etc train but didn’t get a bite - other than a reference on the Enid Blyton Society forum to possibly the next EB book adaptation featuring ‘spook trains’ so that’ll be interesting!
Looking forward to adaptations of these too
You have to feel for the film producers though - can’t see them slipping anything past this reviewer…..
Looking forward to adaptations of these too
You have to feel for the film producers though - can’t see them slipping anything past this reviewer…..
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oldravendale
Western Thunderer
For me the test of a really good movie was when I never noticed any of the imperfections. Otherwise I'd spend the whole screening looking for dirt, scratches etc...
Brian
Brian
Osgood
Western Thunderer
Business opportunity, Brian?For me the test of a really good movie was when I never noticed any of the imperfections. Otherwise I'd spend the whole screening looking for dirt, scratches etc...
Brian
Glasses with computer chip driven lenses that also display stuff - no, not useful stuff like showing the route to the takeaway, but 'screen effects'.
You, for example might select 'old movie mode', where scratches and smudges flash down past your eyes and the frame judders occasionally as well as focus going out every now and then.
Would add a whole new meaning to 'getting your lenses chipped'.
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
That's already done, Tony, to make for example, movies within movies look "old". But I suspect you're well aware of that. Equally old movies can be improved to look like new, as we do with old photos. And don't start me off about "Colourisation" - the spawn of the devil.
Brian
Oz7mm
Western Thunderer
Robin
Well I found it eventually (at 37:26) but I have no idea what the loco is or the location. The train seems to be running right hand road towards a timber viaduct so is it even in the UK? The loco doesn't look British either.
I'll be interested to see what it is.
John
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Not seen it but I suspect a library shot. It's a steam train, isn't it? Well, no-one'll know the difference...
Boyblunder
Western Thunderer
I thought German, thanks guys for confirming my suspicions. Pretty rubbish for the BBC considering how many suitable heritage lines there are in the UK. For your next mission have a look at Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Christmas Eve viewing at my daughters and I’m labelled an anorak within 10 minutes of the start because the loco of the train full of Nazis looks auspiciously British…..
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas
JimG
Western Thunderer
For a fairly short shot or sequence, using a heritage line would have entailed a location crew for probably a couple of days and people at the heritage site to operate the loco and stock and everything else. That could cost a fair bit of money.
It's more likely that someone in a cutting room ordered a library shot, probably didn't really know what they should be ordering and didn't see anything wrong with what they got. Don't let facts get in the way of art. Jim.
adrian
Flying Squad
Well that was an interesting bit of digging on the t'internet - the result of which I'd like to suggest that it is the Epfenhofer Viaduct on the "pigtail line". Near the German Swiss border, the houses in the valley look to match correctly.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/47%C2%B049'13.9%22N+8%C2%B033'11.6%22E/@47.8205234,8.5506499,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d47.8205234!4d8.5532248?entry=ttu
Interestingly this is part of a loop - the return can be seen by the viaduct in the background.
Viadukte
Die Viadukte der "Sauschwänzlebahn" Der einmalige Charakter der "Sauschwänzlebahn" wird unter anderem geprägt durch die vier großen, in seiner Art jeweils unterschiedlichen, Viadukte. Alle Viadukte sind für ein Gewicht von 140 Tonnen berechnet, da die Strecke ursprünglich strategischen Charakter...
sauschwaenzlebahn.de
It certainly looks to be an interesting line to visit if we ever get over to that neck of the woods.
Lancastrian
Western Thunderer
Brian,That's already done, Tony, to make for example, movies within movies look "old". But I suspect you're well aware of that. Equally old movies can be improved to look like new, as we do with old photos. And don't start me off about "Colourisation" - the spawn of the devil.
Brian
I did the TK conversion for the first of the "missing" Dr. Who episodes which was colourised.
Ian
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Not really, Simon. It simply comes down to personal preference.Oooh, controversy!
wheres the popcorn?
Brian