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Bath in Films A Presentation by Claudia
Lohse Martin Orgill Oliver Held
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• Bath a frequently used film set!
• Bath Film Office more than 110 projects have
  been filmed in and around Bath since 1931
• Some of the outstanding buildings have been used
  as film sets particularly often
• Royal Crescent
• Pump Room
• Assembly Rooms
• Circus

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The Pump Room (1)
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The Pump Room (2)
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Pump Room with Bath Abbey
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Royal Crescent and Circus
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Royal Crescent
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Dyrham Park, near Bath
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• Filmed (partially) in Bath
• Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ealing Studios,
  starring Alec Guinness

• The Titfield Thunderbolt, Ealing Studios

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• Oliver!
• Acclaimed adaptation of Dickens Oliver Twist
• 6 Academy Awards

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• Prince Valiant
• Cast
• James Mason
• Robert Wagner
• Janet Leigh

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• Also
• The Count of Monte Christo
• Doctor Dolittle
• The Canterbury Tales (Director Pasolini)
• Miss Marple Sleeping Murder
• Jack the Ripper
• House of Eliott
• Moll Flanders
• Emma

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• Chocolat
• Harry Potter 1 and 2
• Murder in Mind
• Stardust
• Vanity Fair

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• Closer Look at
• The Remains of the Day
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey
• Barry Lyndon

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The Remains of the Day

• Filmed 1993
• Director James Ivory
• Producer Ismail Merchant
• Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguros novel

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Anthony Hopkins is Stevens, the Butler
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Emma Thompson is Miss Kenton, the Housekeeper
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Christopher Reeve is Congressman Lewis
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James Fox is Lord Darlington
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Hugh Grant is Darlingtons nephew
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• Plot
• set in the 1950 with extensive flashbacks to
  pre-war England
• Lord Darlington sympathizes with Nazi Germany and
  organizes political conferences at Darlington
  Hall, his home
• Stevens is Butler at Darlington Hall and embodies
  blind loyalty and devotion towards his lordship
• Against the backdrop of devotion the somehow
  existent feelings between Stevens and Miss Kenton
  are repressed

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• Miss Kenton leaves Darlington Hall and marries
  someone else
• After the war Darlington Hall is taken over by an
  American Congressman, Mr Lewis
• Stevens, still in service, sets off to see Miss
  Kenton in Clevedon, hoping to set his mistake
  right
• Miss Kenton tells him about her marriage being
  broken up and again circumstances are against a
  relationship Miss Kenton is going to be a
  grandmother and therefore refuses Stevens offer
  to return to Darlington Hall to her former
  position

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• About the film
• Production budget 6.5 million
• Box office taking in the US 20 million
• In the UK 4 million GBP
• Movie Map (1998) Castles, stately homes,
  medieval manor houses etc.
• Howards End, The Madness of King George, Mrs
  Brown, The Remains of the Day, Sense and
  Sensibility, Wilde, Elizabeth
• 250,000 times distributed via American travel
  agencies

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Dyrham Park, near Bath
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