Incorrect number plates in TV and Film

[ClaphamGT3]

Evangelion said:

Someone once told me there were Land Rovers in 633 Squadron, which was set in 1943. Not sure if he's correct though.

There's also a post-war Morris Minor in the closing scene of Ice Cold in Alex.

[Doofus]

iansp]Lawrence of Arabia owned 7 Brough Superior motorcycles naming them George [N said:

. The opening scenes of the Lawrence of Arabia film depict Lawrence’s fatal accident but the bike shown carried an incorrect registration number of UL 656 (aka George VI) and not GW 2275 (aka George VII).

Ex-boxer and cooking equipment mogul George Foreman has five sons, all of whom are named George. One of his seven daughters is called Georgetta.

[droopsnoot]

joropug said:

I am currently watching Blue Lights on BBC.

I caught a couple of minutes of this last night, where a Range Rover bearing "DR 007" plates was in a workshop. I haven't watched the rest of it, nor read the Daily Mail article so not sure if this is what it said.

[Dog Star]

I can’t help looking for stuff like all this - stuff set back in the 70s where all the houses on terraced streets oop north have double glazing, cunningly hidden satellite dishes. Cars - interior rear view mirrors and head restraints missing (I know it’s for visibility).

Trivia: there’s an episode of Life on Mars and in the background is my bright red SLK. But it’s hidden under a camo net.

[joropug]

droopsnoot said:

I caught a couple of minutes of this last night, where a Range Rover bearing "DR 007" plates was in a workshop. I haven't watched the rest of it, nor read the Daily Mail article so not sure if this is what it said.

No just every interior shot throughout the series is set in a Skoda Octavia , so exterior shots are showing Peugeots, Vauxhalls, Audis, then as soon as it hits the interior they’re back in a Skoda. Really lazy as they could just angle it away from the steering wheel so you couldn’t tell.

[RC1807]

Atomic Blonde - early London scenes show Charlize Theron’s character walking along the street in 1989.
MGB with E plate prefix parked on the street.
(Also, same cars used in a few shots from different streets as her walk continues.)

[gt40steve]

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines also features a Land Rover parked by a hanger.

Mk4 Cortina & Mk2 Transit in Quadrophenia.

Edited by gt40steve on Tuesday 11th April 14:53

[wpa1975]

Evangelion said:

Someone once told me there were Land Rovers in 633 Squadron, which was set in 1943. Not sure if he's correct though.

That is correct also a Fordson New Major tractor (1953 onwards)

Also when the earthquake bombs are being pulled in single file along a lane in preparation for the raid, a modern white hatchback (1964) is seen driving past the end of the lane in the background from left to right.

[redrabbit29]

I would call you sad for noticing this but:

1) I have also noticed it

2) I once tried to call a character on Eastenders - you know when their phone number is visible on the screen. I think it may have been Sonia. It went straight to voicemail.

3) For some reason, I often look up street locations of tv shows just to see how it looks normally and also to see if I can identify where they are. I've no idea why I find it so interesting but I do.

[Granadier]

'Why Didn't They Ask Evans?', Agatha Christie mini-series on ITV, is set in 1936 and features plenty of gorgeous, period-correct old cars. But early on, there's a travel montage which includes a brief aerial shot of Trafalgar Square full of buses which seem to be 1960s Routemasters, painted all-red. In 1936 London buses would have been half-red, half-white with silver roofs, and would have looked different, even from a distance.

[joropug]

In ‘Before we die’ …slightly ahead of its time

[funinhounslow]

I read that this is an Easter Egg in the film Heat - when Val Kilmer takes cover to reload the car’s number plate is a reference to the fact that he’s in his second lying up point.

Don’t know how accurate that is but I like to think it’s true…

[RammyMP]

joropug said:

In ‘Before we die’ …slightly ahead of its time

All the cars in that series had crappy made up plates, no need for it!

[Doofus]

I've been watching the Mission Impossible movies this week. In 5 or 6 there's a Range Rover in London with a random jumble of letters and numbers, and it not only looks daft, but just seems unneccessary.

[Grumps.]

I was more put off by the appalling acting towards the end of the second series, almost as if the actors themselves had completely given up on it.

[joropug]

Grumps. said:

I was more put off by the appalling acting towards the end of the second series, almost as if the actors themselves had completely given up on it.

I’m struggling ! More my Wife’s cup of tea

[StevieBee]

Smoke and mirrors.

I recently made a film for a client in the Caribbean on the exciting subject of de-polluting an End of Life vehicle.

Sadly, there wasn't the budget to film the sequence in the Caribbean so I had to do this in the UK and make a Scrap Yard in Clacton look like it was in St Lucia. This I did using actors of Caribbean heritage, trick lighting and a bit of post-production magic.

The most difficult part were the cars themselves. I established that 80% of the cars in a typical British scrap yard are not models available in the Caribbean. This required some serious fork-lifting to arrange the cars in each shot that was representative of those mainly found there (small, white Japanese hatchbacks, small off-roaders, etc.).

They FedExed me a box of local license plates from a yard there that I used on some of the cars in the foreground with photos of the plates attached to cars further back in the shots.

Complete waste of time as we ended up using close-in shots of the engine and underside of the car that could have been any care in any location.

[Elderly]

Years ago I was working on a BBC drama shot in Dorset but masquerading as a North African country.

I had to stick Arabic script number plates on to an old Citroen Fourgonne van …..
…… I inadvertently stuck them on upside down.

[Cold]

Elderly said:

Years ago I was working on a BBC drama shot in Dorset but masquerading as a North African country.

I had to stick Arabic script number plates on to an old Citroen Fourgonne van …..
…… I inadvertently stuck them on upside down.

That's the trouble with TV these days. Too many repeats.

Back in April Elderly said:

Back in the days when you would have to write to the Radio Times to comment, I was working in the UK on a scene that was supposed to be somewhere in North Africa.

I had to attach number plates with characters printed in Arabic script onto a Citroen Fourgon van ……

……. I managed to stick them on upside down .

[Davidfield]

Unforgotten Series 5 episode 3 set in London. Peugeot registration KV17 V17