Yet more filming...
Ross says:
"On my way to work this morning I noticed umpteen lorry loads of filming equipment being unloaded at the top of Point Hill into the small park behind where I live (on your right as you get to the top of Point Hill - the name escapes me having only just moved there recently). I wonder if it's related to the goings on down in the Maritime area?"
The Phantom replies:
Goodness - not again! That will be the Point you're talking about. I have no idea what it's for this time. I walked up to the Point a few days ago only to find, once I'd huffed and puffed my way up there, the whole place overtaken with meeja types in square glasses telling me I couldn't go in, and giant cameras creating 'sun' on what seemed to be a perfectly sunny day. When I had a couple of friends to stay recently we couldn't get into the Painted Hall because they were filming a Japanese biscuit commercial. And that's not even beginning to count biggies like Wolf Man, The Golden Compass and The Duchess. Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Do you think that Greenwich Film Unit aren't charging enough or something? I mean it's nice to see the place being used - but there doesn't seem to be a day in the calendar that somewhere isn't out of bounds. I might as well move to Pinewood...
On a slightly less grumpy note, though, you do get to meet some interesting folk. Here is, for no other reason than he made me smile a lot, a security guard on the set of Wolf Man, giving me his impression of the Hairy One himself.
Uncanny, eh...
"On my way to work this morning I noticed umpteen lorry loads of filming equipment being unloaded at the top of Point Hill into the small park behind where I live (on your right as you get to the top of Point Hill - the name escapes me having only just moved there recently). I wonder if it's related to the goings on down in the Maritime area?"
The Phantom replies:
Goodness - not again! That will be the Point you're talking about. I have no idea what it's for this time. I walked up to the Point a few days ago only to find, once I'd huffed and puffed my way up there, the whole place overtaken with meeja types in square glasses telling me I couldn't go in, and giant cameras creating 'sun' on what seemed to be a perfectly sunny day. When I had a couple of friends to stay recently we couldn't get into the Painted Hall because they were filming a Japanese biscuit commercial. And that's not even beginning to count biggies like Wolf Man, The Golden Compass and The Duchess. Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Do you think that Greenwich Film Unit aren't charging enough or something? I mean it's nice to see the place being used - but there doesn't seem to be a day in the calendar that somewhere isn't out of bounds. I might as well move to Pinewood...
On a slightly less grumpy note, though, you do get to meet some interesting folk. Here is, for no other reason than he made me smile a lot, a security guard on the set of Wolf Man, giving me his impression of the Hairy One himself.
Uncanny, eh...Labels: Art, Fiming in Greenwich, News
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
17:26
7 Comments:
Thats a great picture, it made me laugh.....grrreat. Perhaps the filming at the Point is to do with Little Dorrit which has been shooting at the Queens House and the ORNC recently.
I think I want to work for Greenwich Film Unit seems like a film a week at the moment. Or maybe specialist reporter for The News Shopper!
Can someone tell me where The Point is?!! I keep being told to walk my dog there, but don't know where it is! Thank you!
Lula - here's a map pointing to Point Hill. At the top of it, the strange pointy green lump is The Point. Good luck finding a time when there's no filming going on...
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=538277&y=177042&z=1&sv=Point+Hill&st=1&tl=Point+Hill,+SE10&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf
D'oh - these links are always hard to do with the comments section. Just go to www.streetmap.co.uk, type in Point Hill and look for the green pointy lump at the top.
I'm hoping to get a googlemap facility at some point - it all takes time, though...
Phantom et al,
Here's a neat way of pasting a web link into the comments section. Go here...
http://www.tiny.cc/
...and enter the long URL. Press [Go Tiny] and, like magic, it provides you with a much shorter web link.
And in the finest British tradition - here's one I made earlier.
http://tiny.cc/SF21x
It's a link to this very page.
Cheerio,
Ross.
Not sure what's been filmed up at the Point, but they were filming an adaptation of Little Dorritt (BBC?) down by the river a few weeks back
little Dorrit was filming on the Beach down but the river and the university, wolf man is currently up in the park.......
And Robert from the St Alfeges B&B is doing a lot of telly still...
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