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.

Peter Beale

In message , at 19:10:07 on Wed, 16
Jul 2008, Peter Beale 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.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/locations
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Roland Perry

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Peter Beale wrote:

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.

Presumably, they're magic.

In tenuously related news, there's famously (FSVO 'famously') one lone
anachronism in the whole of the otherwise painstakingly crafted language
of rival Inkling fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, and that's also rail
transport related:

"They all ducked, and many fell flat on their faces. The dragon passed
like an express train, turned a somersault, and burst over Bywater with a
deafening explosion."

An express train is a rather odd thing to draw a simile to in Middle
Earth. Moar he

http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/247878.php

Although at least one modeller has taken the idea and run with it:

http://www.rickdavis.co.uk/rail/index.php

tom

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