Don't Movie Producers Know Better?

[Mash]

I'd imagine filming anything in London these days let alone a period drama is extremely expensive and a complete PITA.

 

I let these historical inaccuracies bother me too much, more than it should but then I'm a right geek! Some of the other things that get me are the women's hairstyles in war films such as Battle of Britain and Where Eagles Dare - there's no attempt to change the 60s styles for anything resembling the 1940s, take a look at Susannah York in BoB to see what I mean.

 

Have we mentioned the complete bollocks that is George Gently by the way???!!!

 

For stuff made now, the US do it much, much better. Mad Men was a pleasure to watch for period detailing and even something like Captain America - the street scenes in that were fabulous for detail.

[eddyramrod]

Barrow recently stood in for 1940s Dublin, as I may have mentioned earlier... Manchester doubles for Victorian London (specifically, Manchester Town Hall for the House of Lords) in 2008's Sherlock Holmes. They do this all the time. Probably the nearest thing to accuracy that I've seen was when I arrived at Rochdale Town Hall to make a delivery, and found a Life On Mars crew; with an Allegro and a Marina, how many other shows could it be?

[eddyramrod]

Barrow recently stood in for 1940s Dublin, as I may have mentioned earlier... Manchester doubles for Victorian London (specifically, Manchester Town Hall for the House of Lords) in 2008's Sherlock Holmes. They do this all the time. Probably the nearest thing to accuracy that I've seen was when I arrived at Rochdale Town Hall to make a delivery, and found a Life On Mars crew; with an Allegro and a Marina, how many other shows could it be?