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Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: Roland PerryRoland Perry Date: Jul 16, 2008 13:22
In message <6e6rs0F5lmndU1@ mid.individual.net>, at 19:10:07 on Wed, 16
Jul 2008, Peter Beale pjbeale.net> remarked:
>Went to see "Prince Caspian" last night - it opens with a very
>authentic-looking London scene during the war, including 1940s taxis
>and buses, and the entrance to Strand Underground station - then down
>on to the platform, and 1938 stock. Presumably the scenes on the
>platform are actually Alwych - but I am fascinated to know how the
>outside scenes were done. Is it a combination of computer-generated
>stuff and the genuine article? The street outside Strand Station had
>tramlines - in itself inauthentic, the trams only reached "Savoy St
>Strand" - but also they had no conduit slot, and I did not notice OHL
>either. I note from the end credits that Prague was one of the places
>where filming took place, along with New Zealand, Slovenia and others.
>I wondered if this scene was done there.
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Roland Perry
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