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just watching the movie Flood on my PC. In the opening shots it has aerial views of London and I was intrigued to see two small marina's almost opposite the Dome. I opened Google Earth and looked and saw nothing. I slowly played the film both ways and cannot see the join where these 'views' had been cut into actual real footage and it is remarkable that there's no way you can distinguish between real & fake.
 
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byron said:
just watching the movie Flood on my PC. In the opening shots it has aerial views of London and I was intrigued to see two small marina's almost opposite the Dome. I opened Google Earth and looked and saw nothing. I slowly played the film both ways and cannot see the join where these 'views' had been cut into actual real footage and it is remarkable that there's no way you can distinguish between real & fake.
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and I forget the name of it, I never knew it was there until 2 years ago when I stayed in a hotel opposite the dome, I will try and find out what its called
 
Down memory lane.

"just watching the movie Flood".

Must bring back memories .......... By the way are you still in contact with Noah ? :)
 
byron said:
just watching the movie Flood on my PC. In the opening shots it has aerial views of London and I was intrigued to see two small marina's almost opposite the Dome. I opened Google Earth and looked and saw nothing. I slowly played the film both ways and cannot see the join where these 'views' had been cut into actual real footage and it is remarkable that there's no way you can distinguish between real & fake.
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They are Poplar Dock Marina and Blackwall Basin.

Here in Google maps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...0531,-0.009162&spn=0.004174,0.013078&t=h&z=17

Did you also notice the Ocean 37 in Poplar?
 
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byron said:
just watching the movie Flood on my PC. In the opening shots it has aerial views of London and I was intrigued to see two small marina's almost opposite the Dome. I opened Google Earth and looked and saw nothing. I slowly played the film both ways and cannot see the join where these 'views' had been cut into actual real footage and it is remarkable that there's no way you can distinguish between real & fake.
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Like Katie Price (Jordan) then
 
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Yes! I can see what you are looking at but the marinas in the movie are smaller and separate, maybe they doctored the aerial views. That would make sense although why they would want to do that stumps me.
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Looking at 04 mins 11 or 12secs on the movie is about the best shot I can pause it on.

Poplar Dock Marina is leftmost in the shot, there is a very short passage between Poplar
and Blackwall Basin, that can't really be seen here, but going up from the top right corner of Barclays, it's just up from the last apartment block.

Blackwall Basin is in the centre.

The lock to the right is West India, from Blackwall Basin you go through Bellmouth Passage (not shown) in Canary Wharf to get to it. The journey from Poplar Dock / Blackwall Basin to West India lock includes three 90degree bends in a very narrow passage. It's worse at the moment, as there are a lot of working barges there being used on the Canary Wharf Crossrail station.

The Canary Wharf workers on their lunch breaks, all looking enviously as you pass through is the usual highlight.
 
out of interest I looked up the goofs in the film:-

Errors in geography: When the film shows Embankment station, it is actually Charing Cross Underground.

Factual errors: Although the senior military advisor is referred to frequently as 'Major General' his rank badges are those of a (full) General. In addition, a Major General would be normally be addressed as 'General'.

Factual errors: The helicopter taking the Deputy Prime Minister to Scotland bears a ZS- Registration for South Africa, not a G- Registration as would be expected. Furthermore he would have been flown by the Military in such an instance.

Continuity: The fighter bomber shown on the ground was a single seater, however, the plane shown taken off is a Tornado GR4, which is a two seater.

Errors in geography: The Deputy PM flies from Scotland to London in a small helicopter with a South African registration prefix (ZS) indicating that this sequence was filmed in South Africa .

Errors in geography: Wick is shown in the opening scene as being in the Western Isles. A later news report appears to show it on Scotland's east coast south of Aberdeen. In fact it is on the east coast north of Aberdeen.

Factual errors: The Thames Barrier is shown closing all gates in around 30 seconds. In fact, it is closed progressively over two hours. Any more suddenly would cause a damaging reflective wave to "bounce" off the gates.

Miscellaneous: The emergency team is referred to as COBRA. Technically, this refers to the location, Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, the actual group of people coordinating the emergency effort is the Civil Contingencies Committee or "Triple-C".

Continuity: In flight scenes involving the Tornado GR4 it is plainly only carrying 2 fuel drop tanks and nothing else. If was sent to destroy the Thames Barrier it should be carrying air-to-ground missiles.

Errors in geography: Just before the news helicopter reports that there are survivors stranded on rooftops, a scene shows the helicopter from below. The tall brown building in the far right of this shot of the helicopter is Safmarine House, which is situated in the Cape Town CBD.

Revealing mistakes: In one scene, its very obvious that the Prime Minister's helicopter is a fake, toy one.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Surprisingly the panicking Londoners tried to leave London rather than take the simplest and most obvious way to escape from the floodwater - seek refuge on the top of buildings. Nor did the authorities issue such advice.

Factual errors: At the beginning of the film the wave heights are report in feet. The UK Meteorological Office, as does all meteorological and marine agencies, record wave heights and tidal ranges in meters.
 
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I didn't research all that, I just copied & pasted from a website that gives goofs in films.
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hmmm, something like this

Now that is a bit geeky, but I must confess I could happily while away a bit of time on that site...

In fact, let me see, what movies are on over Christmas...
 
byron said:
out of interest I looked up the goofs in the film:-

Errors in geography: When the film shows Embankment station, it is actually Charing Cross Underground.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Surprisingly the panicking Londoners tried to leave London rather than take the simplest and most obvious way to escape from the floodwater - seek refuge on the top of buildings. Nor did the authorities issue such advice.
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Charing Cross underground station has the ex Jubiliee line platforms which are no longer used. They are however maintained by TFL to a standard that legally trains can still run, so they are used in loads of films.

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Charing_Cross_station.html

Living on a boat I probably have less worries than most about London flooding, although I suspect high ground when a building might not always be safe? Colapsing Bridges have happended in the floods in other parts of the country.

FWIW, regarding the three hours to close the barrier someone was telling me the other day, that because of this, London would flood if the sunk SS Richard Montgomery went up.

Looking into it..

"According to a BBC news report, in 1970 it was determined that if the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 1,000-foot (300 m) wide column of water and debris nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in the air and generate a wave 16 feet (5 m) high"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3578244.stm
 
I doubt it would cause any more than a little localised flooding.

The quantity, or sheer volume of water wouldn't be sufficient, and not the same as a freak tide!

Rather sadly, I'm fascinated to imagine seeing such a flood, although I know I shouldn't....
 
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