Film locations

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" <alexisnguyen at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Donna:
> > Are the HP movies filmed on a set or at a real castle? If so, where? Seems
> > like many years ago I read somewhere that the first film, at least, was
> > filmed on location at a real castle but my memory isn't as good as it once
> > was. Thank you.
> 
> IMDB will give you a fairly comprehensive list of the filming
> locations.  There are castles listed in all the location lists, I do
> believe.

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Geoff:
IMDB is wrong on at least two counts with the information for the 
"Philosopher's Stone" locations. The pedestrian bridge listed as York 
is at King's Cross. As the scene opens, you can see down to the terminal 
buffers with the glass screens above. York is famously built on a long 
curve and is a through railway station. 

The second misinformation is that the exterior view (using St. Pancras 
Station) does not occur in this film, it occurs in "Chamber of Secrets".

It is always a source of amusement in the UK that the film correctly 
uses the interior of KX but the outside of St.Pancras. The two railway 
stations are literally about 150 yards apart; perhaps they feel that the 
Gothic exterior of the latter suits the mood of the stories?