Mike Jordan

“The Guardian” picture section 23^rd October 2020 has this nice picture of filming (you know that bendy plastic stuff that one shines alight through to watch and has nothing to do with SD cards) in Kings Cross including a very Health and Safety camera tower. Presumably access is via the open window!

Good old days? (perhaps not!)

 

Barry Bonner

Not to mention that it also comes with a large two-way talkback box!

 

Dave Buckley

Filming of “The Ladykillers”, where Ealing Studios built a house at the end of Fredrica Street, immediately above the Copenhagen Tunnels just outside Kings Cross station.

However, this location is Argyle Street, opposite St. Pancras station, where the reverse angle shots of the house were taken. I would guess, without seeing film again, that the set-up was for a shot before or after this one. The telephone box is obviously a fake!

The camera is a three strip Technicolor one,  hence the wide film spool casing.

There is a BBC film made about the filming of “The Ladykillers” called ‘Location Kings Cross’, which went out in the mid-1950s. It’s a shame that whoever now owns the film distribution rights, doesn’t re-issue the film plus the ‘making of’ as an extra.

 

Roger Long

John Tiley shooting “Dixon of Dock Green”,  directed by Joe Walters….