600 films and 19 000 location shots

Well, now more than six hundred films examined on site with almost nineteen thousand then and now comparative location photos. Thanks to all our contributors and especially to Phil wilkinson who has been pouring in films, and valuable location information, for the past month and whose contributions have rushed us forward to the six hundred mark. And those shots that you know about and were going to identify, what happened to those? When are you going to let us know about those dark cinematographic details which are lurking in the grey corners of your subconcious? Out with them, share with us your fascinating insites into the wonderful world of film scenes, sets, locations and all the other real streets that have been used all over the world and for the last hundred years of film making.

EARN MONEY FROM OUR SITE

Now here is a thought for you location sleuths; How you can make money from our site. Offer a year's advertising on our geographically oriented website to businesses located in the area of our on-site locations. Our viewers use our site in order to visit the locations that we, with your help, have identified. They already have an interest in the film, the actors, the location and the building and are poised to enter into a more personal involvement with anyone who shares their enthusiasm for the movie. Our site has almost 600 film/movies listed and some 18000 photos of movie locations. If a business appears in one of our “then” or “now” location shots then visitors to the location will be interested in the building. If the pub, bar, cafe, shop, hotel etc., has some extra connection to the film, perhaps a poster, a front of house still, newspaper clippings of the film being made or even a couple of shots pulled from our site, then it is likely that the tourist will pop in for a glass of beer, a bag of sweets, tea and a bun, or a night’s lodging. Film induced tourism is the fastest growing tourist industry, worldwide. We receive more than 3 000 000 hits a year, yes three million, which proves this interest. Many small towns have seen a huge increase in their tourist numbers because of films or TV shows made in their real streets. We charge £ 75.00 a year for an advertising space, the size of one of our on-line photos, for businesses to display their goods, services, offers, logos etc. All for less than a pound fifty a week. Anyone active enough to secure an ad for us will receive a discount of £ 25.00 per advert, and, if you secure, perhaps in one trip for one film, three, four or ten orders then you will more than pay for your time, your trip and your petrol. There are some 6000 “now” shots on-line, with perhaps 1500 businesses shown, who are our potential advertisers, at a possible £ 25.00 a time to you. You do the maths, if could be, as George Cole used to say, “a nice little earner”.

Brighton Weekend

Now the sun is beginning to shine, perhaps a weekend in Brighton? Peppermint rock, whelks, kiss-me-quick hats and damp pebbles. Can't beat it!
So, take your camera and get some fill-in snaps for: Running Man, 1963; Street of Shadows, 1953; Tommy, 1975; Villain; Brighton Rock, 1948; Brighton Strangler, 1945; Bank Holiday, 1938; Carry on Girls, 1973; Genevieve, 1954; Hundred Pound Window, 1943; Jigsaw, 1963; Night We Got the Bird, 1961; Oh, What a Lovely War, 1969; Playground Express; Quadrophenia, 1978, and the dozens of more recent films and movies which have used Brighton, Hove and the Sussex seafronts for their filming sets and locations.
Oh, and don't forget to send us a postcard!
Happy hols.

Hammersmith Murders

A copy of Daybreak has just been sent in by R D Marchant, and our thanks to him. Most scenes are sets, and the waterfront shots vary from Hammersmith via Tilbury to Gravesend, most are stock shots without actors, but one or two will be useful for us.

Interestingly the film was made in 1948 in the same place as The Long Memory, 1953, but Daybreak was made by the Hammersmith Riverside Studios, where it is believed Dogsbody, of Cinema of Darkness infamy worked.

Is there a connection we wonder?

An undetected serial killer working in the shadowy world of film production with all the smoke and mirrors at his disposal, and, as for disposal, the bridge and the Thames were close by, and the unresolved mystery of the Gravesend arm, was only twenty miles downstream from the Riverside Studios and Hammersmith Bridge. Five floating hours at 4mph.

Are there any more links to Hammersmith, films made there, or the identity of Dogsbody? Help us to investigate these apparent murders. Examine the Cinema of Darkness and see if you can unravel more of this mystery.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Whilst we realise that it is quicker for you to just write an email, attach a couple of photos and press the button, but at our end the helpers need to know the geographical location in order to find the film quickly, and that is why we have a submission page, or else they need to open our site, ALL FILMS, select and load the full film. Time is running. OK only three or four minutes on our old slow middle Italian internet connection, but time all the same. And when ten of you write in on the same day things can get a bit hectic.

Then when the helper needs to archive your email, where does he put it? He needs to spend time renaming your files with our film ident codes, again one of the reasons why we ask everone to submit only one film at a time. So we need to rename the file, another minute.

It is also a help to us if our picture number is put as the title of your photo file, with an "n" suffix, for "now". Because when we archive the picture we'll never find it again unless we rename it. Only a few minutes work, but with some 15 000 pictures it costs a lot of money. Change the file name, another minute

So, the house, street, village,............... please let us have a full address.

Picture size is another requirement, the physical size and the resolution size, all of which we ask the submitters to do, as it saves us even more time. See submission details. If we have to change both for you, another two minutes of our time..

So yes, we do want your contributions, but as we are unloved and unpaid we must ask your help in doing the preparatory work so that our time can be more profitably used to enlarge the site and give greater pleasure to greater numbers of enthusiasts, instead of spending even more time asking contributors yet again to follow our submission rules, and sending out endless emails to constantly ask them to submit their details and photos in an acceptable condition.

So, we've could have tweaked your pic, making it brighter and a tad more contrasty, two minutes. And now written this email, three/four minutes. Ten minutes just to add one picture!!! So in that time we can add 10 other pics that have been correctly submitted by other people.

And is it your photo or does the copyright belong to someone else? Let us know so that we, with your help, don't infringe someone else's copyright.

And as for the out of focus, dark, blurry pics, and those that don't correspond with anything..............words fail me

Thanks, hope you really can be of help to us, as we hope we are being of help to you.

Best wishes

John Tunstill

TV SERIES

TV SERIES

And now locations for a dozen TV Series are starting on ReelStreets.
Which locations do you know that someone else hasn’t yet loaded on their site?

On ReelStreets YOU always get full credit for the information you send in. Your name in lights on our pages. Not very large lights we admit, but at least acknowledgement.

So, starting sending in your info, photos, locations and anecdotes for those series that we have already listed, and, for those we haven’t, then let us know, and we will.

Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Avengers, Dangerman, Prisoner, Professionals, Heartbeat, Open All Hours, Last of the Summer Wine..........

Jaipur Film Festival

FILM SUBMISSION
World’s growing fastest film festival
4th Jaipur International Film Festival
January 27-31, 2012, Jaipur, India
Film entry submission for JIFF 2012- Last date for film submission:
For Short / Documentary / Animation Now late deadline: 15 November, 2011
For Feature Film / World Premiere
Regular deadline: 15 November, 2011 late deadline: 30 November, 2011
Website: www.jiffindia.org
FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/9490
Jaipur International Film Festival
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