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

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
And, if you do contact them please remind them that they STILL haven’t made a link to us.
www.reelstreets.com
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Tourist Offices

To all film location enthusiasts

Please note that despite offering various local tourist authorities
FREE publicity on our site,
which attracts some 3.5 million hits a year, and asking for nothing in return,
our offer has been ignored. They are obviously too busy to promote
their areas to our surfers.

The incumbents in the office are obviously unaware of the power of
film-induced-tourism and the millions of pounds spent each year by these
visitors to film location sites throughout the world.

So, if you were thinking of offering free publicity to Bolton, Manchester,
Liverpool, Camden and Hammersmith, probably best you don’t waste your time.
Our offer was a free "plug" on each and every film that was
shot in and around their area that is contained on our site; but no,
they don’t want our help.

They have, obviously, too many tourists.

John Tunstill

Islington Film & Movie Locations

Year Film Location
2006
April & May Claremont Square Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
May Finsbury Square Flawless
June Wharfdale Road & Sir Robert McAlpine Breaking & Entering
Construction Site- York Road
August Northampton Row & Bowling Green Lane Son of Rambow
September Crouch Hill 28 Weeks Later
October London Guildhall Mr Beans Holiday
Finsbury Street & Ropemaker Street 28 Weeks Later
November Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street Eastern Promises
December Whittington Hospital Eastern Promises
2007
January Ironmonger Row Turkish Baths Eastern Promises
March Northampton Square Incendiary
May Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street Batman: The Dark Knight
July Charterhouse Street How To Lose Friends & Alienate People
August Holloway Road Telstar
September Kings Cross Station Hippy Hippy Shake
October Danbury Street, Tabernacle Street & Franklyn
Leonard Street
November Connection House Last Chance Harvey
2008
January Clerkenwell Close & Green & Northampton Road The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
February Penton Street The Other Man
March The Pleasance Theatre- North Road A Bunch of Amateurs
April Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street Me & Orson Welles
September Smithfields Dorian Gray
December Sherlock Holmes Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street &
The Houses of Detention
The Elbow Rooms- Chapel Market Perriers Bounty
2009
March Baring Street Harry Brown
April Islington & St Pancras Cemetery Nowhere Boy
June Exterior Pentonville Prison London Boulevard
July Farmiloes Building-St. John's Street Olivers Arrow
The Houses of Detention- Clerkenwell Green St. Trinians 2: The Legend of Frittons Gold
Garnault Place Streetdance
August Houses of Detention- Clerkenwell Green & Sherlock Holmes
Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street
September Charterhouse Street Blitz
November Gee Street Tamara Drewe
December Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street Brighton Rock
2010
February Richmond Crescent The Special Relationship
Exmouth Market Clean Skin
March Farmiloes Building- St. John's Street Bel Ami
Bemerton Estate, Carnoustie Drive & Blundell Street Attack The Block
May The Great Ghost Rescue The Houses of Detention- Clerkenwell Green
August Arlington Square, Linton Street, Arligton Avenue & The Veteran
Bevan Street
The Egg- York Way One Day
September Crinan Street One Day
December Granvill Square, Granville Street & Granville Sq Gardens

Sent in by Celia Wright The Deep Blue Sea

The Games

When we started ReelStreets we concentrated on films with identifiable locations made in the British Isles. But because of world wide interest we have opened the site up to feature films and movies made anywhere, as well as the popular TV series. Checking back we find that The Games, a film made by Michael Winner in 1970, had a number of foreign location scenes, Tokio, Sydney, Rome and probably Belgium, all of which we have now added. So, next time you visit take a snap.

SCREEN GRABS for Location Oriented Films and Movies

Providing Tourist Related Destinations influenced by feature films

We’re still waiting for your contribution to Reelstreets, You remember, you did offer.

So, an easy way to grab the stills. Look up your favourite film by name, in Google, eg. Kes, with youtube added. “Kes utube”.
You will often find a series of excerpts / trailers etc. from the film which will enable you to pull the “then” shots.
Run the film and press the “full screen” tab; often under the screen movie picture, on the right, four tiny arrows pointing outwards to the corners.
When you have a screen full of the scene you want to capture or grab, you will need to press the key which possibly says Print / Screen or something similar, perhaps Prt/Scrn. This button is usually on the top row in the keyboard, the “F” row, it is usually on the right hand side and often third key in from the right. Press this in conjunction with the Alt key, often on the bottom line of the keyboard, third button in from the left..

So for a screen grab, enlarge the movie to full screen size, when the required scene is playing, click Print/Screen and Alt to capture a picture.

Pause the screen whilst you deal with the picture you have grabbed.


To exit “full screen” mode pres Esc, top right on the keyboard.

Open Photoshop and click File/New, top right of screen, you will then be offered an option to open a new page, click yes, then Modify/Paste, and presto your pic appears on screen!

Sharpen/adjust brightness/contrast/colour as required and give it a file reference corresponding to the film’s title. Save the pic with the new reference initials and number the frames in sequence, as a .jpg file, at medium resolution, and do this for each scene containing different architectural detail.

Later, again in Photoshop, resize the pic to a width of 420 pixels, height about 315.
The image size MUST be less than 50KB, or else our robot will reject it, will visit you in the night, and subject you to unspeakable cinematographic torments. You have been warned!

For those of you who delight in unspeakable torments, there are many other sites available!

With my computer I can only grab one scene at a time, which I then need to download before grabbing the next one. I prefer to run the film on “pause” and shift the time button, usually a red indicator on the time line at the bottom of the screen, scene by scene, in a “frame freeze mode”. This, for me makes it simpler to grab the frames. When in pause/freeze frame mode the time line will usually fade from the screen after a second or two, as one doesn’t wish to copy that.

When you’ve done all the outside location shots from the film, tell us, and we’ll give you the passwords necessary to load “your” film on site, www.reelstreets.com.

Harry Potter Film Location saves Gloucester Cathedral

Walt Disney knew it; Hollywood encouraged it and now Harry Potter has conjured up the latest interest in film induced tourism.

In a recent article Warner Bros were congratulated by manager of Gloucester Cathedral for the hoards that are now pounding their way to see this ancient building. It forms part of the location for the magical school Hogwarts in the multi-million pound franchise and the funds raised from the visitors assist greatly with the £5,000 per day, upkeep of the building.

A report by the New Zealand tourist board echoed this with its own results, followers of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, currently bring millions of tourist dollars into the country as a result of fans wanting to visit the film locations that made the films such a success.

Film websites like Reelstreets have understood this phenomenon for a while as well, here members are actively encouraged to discover movie locations and take the “now” photos to add alongside the sites “then” shots taken from classic British cinema. As the latest Harry Potter film hits the cinemas this month and the long awaited prequel to Lord of the Rings due for release in 2011 the trend of seeking out locations made famous by the movies looks set to continue.


Photo: Flickr, NotiX