DAVID RAYNER

According to the IMDb, the Cornish locations for Walt Disney's TREASURE ISLAND (1949), were Carrick Roads, River Fal, Helford River and Gull Rock (wherever they all are).

Gibbie

Decks would know. That's his backyard.

Pieces of eight. Awww.

Marky B

My late mam told me she had met Robert Newton. She lived in one of the houses overlooking King Harry Ferry. When she got married in Hartlepool,she lived up here,but visited her parents at the time of filming along with my dad and my two elder siblings. A neighbour,Mrs Anthony,made tea for the crew and it was through Mrs Anthony my mam met Robert Newton. Described him as a horrible man with a large red nose. Earlier,in the late thirties,through the same consequences,she had met Charles Laughton while he was in Cornwall filming Jamaica Inn with Alfred Hitchcock. She didn't like him either.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Gibbie

Beautiful Bournemouth
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/archives/wx...9beautiful.html

Gibbie

Also...

FOOTAGE PAINTS PICTURE OF BOURNEMOUTH'S PAST
http://www.hants.gov.uk/press/2005/PR2038.html

FOOTAGE PAINTS PICTURE OF BOURNEMOUTH'S PAST
Film footage which has been donated to Wessex Film and Sound Archive paints a fascinating picture of Bournemouth's past.

The films, which were sent in by Bournemouth Borough Council, include the 1938 tourism promotional film `All Seasons!', footage of the demolition and construction of Punshon Memorial Methodist Church, and amateur films of the town and beach in the late 1940s.

The footage is now kept as part of Wessex Film and Sound Archive's collections at Hampshire Record Office on Sussex Street, Winchester.

Two films stand out for their rarity and human interest: one shows the visit of the Prince of Wales to Bournemouth in October 1927. The Prince is shown meeting the Mayor, Ald. Harry Thwaites, and other local dignitaries, laying a wreath at the War Memorial, visiting Boscombe Hospital, opening the Boscombe Undercliff extension, then attending a special rally of Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Boys Brigades and schoolchildren at Meyrick Park, where he also met Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell. Taken specially for the Electric Theatre, this film would only have been shown locally and has not been seen again until now.

The other was made in 1944 and is one of the few from the `Calling Blighty' series to survive. It was made by the British armed services to boost morale on the Home Front by allowing some of our servicemen and women out in India to send cinematic `letters' home to loved ones. They were made for particular towns and surrounding areas, and the films would have been shown there for relatives by invitation of the mayor, who would usually give them a tea afterwards.

This film concerns Bournemouth and its screening must have been a very emotional occasion for the relatives. The names featured are: (Myra) Vingle, Astney, Wallis, Barrett, Napier, `Roz', Galloway, Randall, and Nicholls as taken from the soundtrack. If anyone can identify these names and shed more light on the film, please contact David Lee at the film archive on 01962 847742 or email: david.lee@hants.gov.uk.

The County Council's Director for Recreation and Heritage, Yinnon Ezra, said: "This latest film adds to the rich and varied collection of historic footage kept by Wessex Film and Sound Archive from across central southern England.

"As always we are pleased to play our role in making these fascinating snapshots of history available to a wider audience."

CC1

A lot of One foot in the Grave was filmed in and around Bournemouth and Christchurch. The series Potter which featured the wonderful Arthur Lowe (Captain Mainwaring Dad's Army) was also filmed around Bournemouth. There was also a Norman Wisdom film a lot of which was shot around the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth, but I can't remember the name of the film.

Tony Pendrey

Bournemouth Pier stood in for Margate Pier in the film "Last Orders".

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

ddock54

Cul de Sac..Holy Island..Northumberland....

I SAY THERE BOY!

Anthony McKay

I was at Hengistbury Head (buy the bust stop on the Bornemouth side) around July 1976 and saw Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques filming and episode of SYKES - the scene featured the Sykes' car hanging half-way over a cliff edge (actually only a meter above the beach).

david_dsmedia

Christchurch Council actually discouraged filming there after that car stunt, Hengistbury being an Ancient Monument, SSSI etc.
You can see a more spectacular car-on-cliffedge scene in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, shot across the bay near Swanage.
Going around the bay:
--Episodes such as 'Five on Demons Rocks' and 'Five Go Down to the Sea ' in the 1975-8 Southern TV Famous Five series were shot along the coast here at Mudeford and Highcliffe, just east of Christchurch.
--A scene for Trollope's The Way We Live Now was shot in 2002 on the beach below Highcliffe Castle.
--Bournemouth is sadly only represented by soundstage sets in The Good Companions 1934 (end-of-Pier finale) and Separate Tables (opening clifftop scene ).
-- For Ken Russell's 1977 biopic, Valentino's 1920s Hollywood home is played by Bournemouth's clifftop museum.
--The old (pre-IMAX) Bournemouth Pierhead is seen in the 1963 Edgar Wallace drama To Have And To Hold.
--An episode of Till Death Us Do Part has the Garnetts taking an unlikely holiday at the Royal Bath Hotel.
--BBC's Miss Marple stays at the clifftop Swallow-Highcliff Hotel in the 1947-set "Body In The Library" (1984), with other scenes shot at the Carlton and Royal Bath Hotels.
--The 1990s Bournemouth seafront etc is seen as itself in Waiting For God and One Foot In The Grave.
--Boscombe Pier features in a little-seen 1997 British drama The Sea Change with Maryam d'Abo.
--Poole Harbour (Brownsea Island etc.) was an authentic location for some early b&w Famous Five adventures. (Blyton holidayed at Swanage.)
--Poole Harbour and adjacent boating lake are seen in the 1960 Norman Wisdom comedy The Bulldog Breed.
--There has long been a rumour scenes were shot in the reeds along the Harbour for The African Queen, but this has never been confirmed.
--Sandbanks will be seen portraying California next year in the spoof Morris: A Life With Bells On.
--Sandbanks Ferry sets the scene in Mike Leigh's 1976 BBC comedy telefeature about a couple on a camping holiday in the Purbecks, Nuts In May.
--The 1955-65 cycle of 'nudie' films also used Studland often as a stand-in for some vague "liberated" Scandinavian locale.
--Various comedy series used Studland-Shell Bay's wide beach and dunes as an all-purpose locale - Dave Allen, Benny Hill, and of course the bedraggled-castaway opening-titles scene ("It's-") of the Monty Python series.
-- Studland Beach and Swanage seafront feature in the 1982 Two Ronnies special By The Sea, a dialogue-less attempt at Donald McGill postcard humour.
--Swanage pier appears in period guise in Wilde 1997 and LWT's 1998 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, as 'Sandbourne' (Hardy's Bournemouth).
-- Studland and area feature in Ken Russell's 1990s comedy about a writer holidaying at a resort hotel , "The Insatiable Mrs Kirsch" for C4's Erotic Tales series.
--Recently, the bay's main screen appearances have been unseen in Britain -in Rosamunde Pilcher dramas such as Morgen Träumen wir Gemeinsam (2002) made for German state TV channel ZDF.
... Anyone know of any other seaside shoots around here?

Rob Compton

Thanks for the post - very interesting.

Just to add to your note about the Famous Five adventures, and not quite seaside, but Corfe Castle was used in the same serial.

rgds
Rob