Alice In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass

[Israel Hands]

Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass

Film stars come to Gloucester. Last week the docks at Gloucester (UK) were closed for a week while film crews shot scenes for "Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass". The film stars Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen, Sacha Baron Cohen and John Sessions. Tim Burton, who directed the previous Alice film, is producer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-28844711

http://www.westernda...ictures.html#18

When the local newspaper announced the plans earlier in the year, the words "Johnny Depp", "tall ships" and "filming" in the same story meant that many mistakenly believed that the next Pirates of the Caribbean film was being shot right here on our doorsteps. Unfortunately this was not to to be since it turned out that Johnny Depp was reprising his role as The Mad hatter, and not Jack Sparrow. However we did have a nice collection of tall ships making berth at the local docks for a week, which was good enough for me.

Set Dressing

To give the impression of a thriving London dock side, the quay was decorated with crates, barrels and old wooden carts. In addition, cargo was loaded on the old cranes. It's a shame that they took these away when filing was complete as they provided some lovely ambiance.

The ships on display were:

The Earl of Pembroke: Wooden barque

http://en.wikipedia....roke_(tall_ship)

This wooden barque seems to be the main ship. Most of the set dressing was arranged on the side of the quay where this ship was docked. It's 145 ft long and it has a certain Black Pearl vibe to it. During filming the ship was renamed as The Wonder

Kathleen & May: three masted top sail schooner

http://en.wikipedia....athleen_and_May

The 114-year-old Kathleen & May is the last remaining British built wooden hull three-masted topsail schooner and tall ship.

Irene: Klatch

Lady of Avenel: 102ft Brigantine

http://www.sailingdr... of Avenel.html

Excelsior LT472

(Not very good pictures I'm afraid)

[ManInATopHat]

Cool stuff.

[meownerelvi]

i think so,Cool stuff. thanks for your sharing

Edited August 30, 2014 by meownerelvi

[Capn Frank]

Thank you for sharing Israel Hands. There were a lot of tall ships there.

Were you able to tour any of the ships? It would be great to see some more close ups of the vessels.

At our local Maritime Heritage Festival we usually get to tour at least one of the tall ships that come. Although, only one or two ships have been coming to our festival in the past few years.

The best was in 2009 when there was three schooners and a sloop.

[Israel Hands]

Sorry Phred, no. We do have the Tall Ships festival where you can go on board the ships, but this time I think every one was too busy with filming to allow civilians around. However I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Earl of Pembroke was back/still there this weekend, and yes I did have a good walk round. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me that time. :(