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Originally Posted by burnttoast
Thank you for an informative post! I might try and come along to that in August! I remember being really annoyed to find out that my College had Jack Cardiff in to do a talk a year after I left! I know Canterbury well and must have passed through Fordwich dozens of times, but never put it together as being the site of Chillingbourne! I'd made the connection in my mind that they'd merged Sittingbourne and Chilham to create the name and sort of assumed it was somewhere out that way. About 10 years ago, IIRC it was in Chilham I found a pub that didn't have glass in its windows just wooden covers - so some of that old world survives..
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Remember that it's only in the last part of the film that they get into Canterbury itself. Most of the action takes place in the villages around Canterbury. As Powell grew up in the area (around Bekesbourne) he knew them all very well and could choose exactly the location he wanted for each shot.
Most of the action takes place in Chilham, Fordwich, Wickhambreaux, Shottenden and a few other places.
But they were very sneaky about it. As said, Powell could choose the location he wanted for each shot, not for each complete scene but each shot.
When Bob Johnson looks out of his bedroom on the Saturday morning, when he looks out of one window he's looking out at Wingham, on the Sandwich road, east of Canterbury. When he looks out of another window of the same room he's looking out at Fordwich, about 5 miles closer to Canterbury! That must be a big bedroom!
Or when you have the classic "conversation shot" of two people talking to each other, the scene you see over one person's shoulder will be in one village. When you get the reverse angle shot, the scene over the other person's shoulder is a different village some miles away!
It was quite a difficult detective job to put them all together and we thank Paul Tritton for the work he did in
his book about the film - and of course the way he shares that expertise with us on the August location walks
Steve
29-01-2008, 12:37 PM
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