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Roland Perry · May 11th 20, 02:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 14:29:19 on
Mon, 11 May 2020, Recliner remarked:
On Mon, 11 May 2020 08:32:48 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Sat, 9 May 2020 22:20:23 +0100
"michael adams" wrote:
wrote in message ...
On Sat, 9 May 2020 17:16:40 +0100

"michael adams" wrote:

Thanks. Although with everything closed, presumably, it would probably
be quite frustrating walking around with nowhere to go except maybe
the odd supermarket. Maybe Sainsburys on TCR or Tesco in Googe St
frinstance.

I was taking pictures of the lockdown plus having an nice walk through the
backstreets of the west end and mayfair.

What *would* be useful at any time, would be the ability to take
pictures of streets, buildings, etc. without the intrusive presence
of parked cars everywhere. Along with too much street furniture, about
which nothing can be done of course. Traffic (and pedestrians) can be
largely avoided by starting at 5.a.m. in summer time; although that
then presents the problem of having all the trees in full leaf.

I'd be very surprised if a number of film companies haven't sent some
cameramen out to surreptitiously take some stock footage videos of the empty
streets for future films.

Yes, very likely. And if any already had sci-fi film or TV projects
that could use some clean London backdrops underway, this will have
been a golden opportunity.

And quite legal because it's not work you can do from home, nor is it in
a prohibited business category.

I presume that CGI could be used to later splice in the actors and
film-related stuff, so the empty streets won't necessarily be empty in
the completed film. It could have futuristic self-driving EVs humming
through the streets, without the need to erase 2020's parked cars,
buses, taxis, etc.

Back in the day they could still do a reasonable job. Think of the
triple-decker bus running round London in Harry Potter.

It's at the studios near Watford now.
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Roland Perry