Out and about in Saltaire - trees rapidly turning autumnal and beginning to drop their leaves. (The sound of leaf blowers is everywhere! Such noisy contraptions.)
The stretch of Victoria Road outside the Victoria Hall was closed to traffic when I walked down. They are filming again but there wasn't a lot to see... some classic cars, a van full of props...
and the Victoria Hall unaccountably now 'Sowerby Bridge Town Hall'. (I felt quite affronted!) Sowerby Bridge is a town in neighbouring Calderdale and did in fact have its own Town Hall at one time, nothing like as grand. I didn't see any filming going on, though it looked as though they might have been within the Victoria Hall itself. I gather they are filming 'Ink', a major film about Rupert Murdoch's media empire, starring Guy Pearce and Jack O'Connell and directed by Danny Boyle. (Wonderfully creative chap, who masterminded the fabulous 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.)
Saltaire must be featuring in films quite often, I imagine. The classic cars look great, but I am astonished at how untidy the van full of props appears - I'd have thought that each prop is carefully packed, stored and labelled, so as to allow quick finding of each item as needed.
ReplyDeletePS: Leaf blowers are my pet hate!! Not only are they annoying with the noise they make, but they are actually really harmful to all sorts of small animals, as well as to the person who operates it, since they will inevitable blow about particles of mould and (animal) feces which they then breathe in.
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