Marianna
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I'm watching Quick, Quick, Slow. In the opening scene. Compo is leaning out of his bedroom window talking to Nora while she is hanging Smiler's laundry on the line. There's a drainpipe to his left and another window beyond that, smaller and with the sill set two courses higher in the wall. In the Google Earth picture, the only window on that side of the building that fits the description is the one next to the Last of the Summer Wine Exhibition sign. That's much further along and lower than Nora seems to be looking when she answers him, and it's quite a distance from his door.
This reminds me of an old comedy sketch about Star Trek fans at a convention asking William Shatner what the combination was to the safe that he opened in one of the episodes. He got exasperated at their weak grasp of the boundary between fiction and reality and told them to stop watching old TV shows, move out of their parent's basements and deal with the real world. The concept shocked them speechless.
All that notwithstanding, it makes me a little nuts when some scenes of a show are filmed on location and I can't quite make what I see on the screen match what I see on the ground.
Marianna
This reminds me of an old comedy sketch about Star Trek fans at a convention asking William Shatner what the combination was to the safe that he opened in one of the episodes. He got exasperated at their weak grasp of the boundary between fiction and reality and told them to stop watching old TV shows, move out of their parent's basements and deal with the real world. The concept shocked them speechless.
All that notwithstanding, it makes me a little nuts when some scenes of a show are filmed on location and I can't quite make what I see on the screen match what I see on the ground.
Marianna