Gregory's girl. The ultimate filming locations then and now video.
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- This is the third Gregory's girl filming location video that I have made and this is the ultimate edit with loads of the quotes you love (Let me know your favourite quote from the movie in the comments?).
My favourite Scottish movie and now you can see how the locations look 40 years on.
The school is now demolished so I was very lucky to be able to record the interior locations before the vanished forever.
Enjoy this gem on nostalgia and remember to visit my website at www.rewoundandfound.com for more of the classic film you love re visited.
Dave.
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The amount of nostalgia, innocence and sheer Scottishness in Gregory's Girl makes it one of the best British films ever made.
Great video! Mad to see how little had changed in the school and on the housing estate! Gregory's Girl was a hugely relatable film for me when I first saw it in 1987. I was 14, awkward, shy, lived on a similar estate in North Wales and madly in (unrequited) love with Michelle Jones! Unfortunately for me though, there was no Clare Grogan equivalent!
Great job bud.. It’s really cool to see all the interior locations.
They were all taken the day before the demolition company too control of the building so I was really lucky to get access.
@@AstonishingGlasgow wow, awesome.
Wow, great video!its amazing how little its changed.I first saw Gregory's Girl in the early 80s when we acquirred Cable. I was a Teenager myself at the time and totally fell in love with the film. Even though I was in the USA, I could relate to the problems and situations they were going thru 100%.
Thank you for the kind words and for getting in touch. I love this movie and its amazing just how universal the subjects of the film are and that they can be enjoyed by people all over the world. Sadly, the school is now demolished. I got to film the interior shots the day the keys were handed over to the demolition crew.
so well put together, amazing video
Thanks for creating this, its one of my favourite films of all time. Its message and comedy are universal. I've got the film on DVD. One of the best lines i think is from Gregorys Dad "Hey Gregory, are going to school late, or coming home early?". 😂😂😂
Saw the actor/stand up comedian Chic Murray walking into the magnum leisure centre in Irvine around 1983,,he was doing a performance at the Magnum theatre,,i was going for a swim! he heard me say "oh theres Chic murray!" Mr Murray Looked around at me saying nothing then he walked into the Magnum, he was carrying an addidas gladstone shaped sports bag!!! Great comedian and great movie!!!!!!
The Funniest film ever I saw..FANTASTIC memories ❤❤❤❤
Loved the film and really enjoyed your vid. Chapeau.
This and the first video are really good, great job.
Really enjoyed this!
Cheers 👍
Always loved the feel n look of the locations as a kod
Bloody hell...the same sinks still in the back...and still supported by the same legs...Built to last them👍🏽....In fact...it even looks like they've kept the classroom doors, just painted them. The only changes outside are cosmetically via upgrading the cladding to the blue colour. Fantastic to have captured this footage before demolition...[a shame really that the modern-academies took over around 10 yrs ago]...The system hasn't improved despite the rebuilding of the schools...4:21 That tunnel and exit haven't changed at all...really good to see. It looks like a place you'd get twatted cutting through there on a fri/sat night:)...
It was incredible just how much was still there. The classroom doors were the same doors. I had permission to take the door number plate from room 4.1, the room Claire Grogan carries the books into at the start of the film and under the plaque the original colour was still there. I was very lucky to get in the day before the building was handed over to the demolition.
@@AstonishingGlasgow It's a fantastic job buddy. I'd have been 4yrs old when this came out, crazy...I first caught this classic in the early 90's as I really fancied Claire Grogan aka "Altered Images & Kochanski" from "Red Dwarf" S1&2....
Its a film that has been with me for as long as I can remember. It was the first thing my Dad recorded the night we got our first VCR th-cam.com/video/5Q8EMHN1rLE/w-d-xo.html and allthough I was at primary school and didnt get the joke, it was exciting to think I would be at high school soon and it would be like the film. I would continue to go back to it and now look back on it with warm nostalgia. For that reason it was one of my first film location then and now projects and when the chance came up to explore the school I couldnt say no. Even found the piano that Chick Murray was playing at the end and tried to buy it but wasnt able to. Probably a good thing as I dont play piano and stay in a flat but had to try.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Ironically I just had a look at the CH4 intro to Gregory's Girl on your playlist, before I read your reply. Have yo also checked out here on TH-cam, the entire Grange Hill series?...The first 25 season's were fantastic...then they decided to move it all to Liverpool [instead of London where it was set]. Have you also checked out "The Professionals" locations Then & Now...they're pretty good....
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Cool. I managed to collect every episode of the Professionals on VHS (Including the never shown on TV episode Klansman) and then 6 months later my VCR stopped working and by that point the world was moving to DVD so never really watched them more than once.
By the time I got into Grange hill the first cast had moved on and Tuckers luck was on so my era of Grange hill was Zammo to Ziggy. Dont think I saw the last few seasons, wasnt the same without the sausage.
A lot of these locations have never changed nearly 35years later
Great to see so much has been retained, not just in the buildings etc. A lot of those school doors, even the door knobs. The same Belfast sink as well! I thought I read some time back that the clock was to be relocated? It apparently caused a stir with fans of the film, is that correct? Superb viewing, I must watch this film again.
I have some bad news for you. The day after I had access to the school the demolition company took possession and at has since been flattened. The clock is still currently on display in a back corridor of the shopping centre in Cumbernauld. When they built the new Queen Street station in Glasgow there was talk of buying the clock to locate it there but the shopping centre were not for selling.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Blimey, how lucky you were to get access to and photograph such precise detail. So sad to see the school has gone, regeneration they call it! That makes sense about the clock, a great film location, keep it where it is, it creates custom for location hunters as well as Gregory's Girl fans a place of homage. You even found the tree! Now to find those flats where the girl was removing her brassier at the beginning of the film, or did you lose breath and pass out on finding??
I was really lucky to get into the school and I managed to come away with the door number plate from classroom 1.4, the door Susan (Clare Grogan) walks into with the pile of books at the start of the film. The nurses home at the start was in real life an electricity board office block and training centre. It was demolished about 5 years before I started the project unfortunately so I missed the chance to visit that location.
@@AstonishingGlasgow I'd have swiped the 110 Darkroom plate for posterity: It was kind of more integral to the film, no? Great work, btw.
Why do you think I had a screwdriver in my pocket? Sadly it was gone when I got there so I made do with the room 1.4 plate and some coat hooks from the changing room.
I’ve been watching and loving these but I have yet to see thr actual film. Lol
Its a classic but I hope its not been so built up that you are disappointed..... I dont think you will be.
It's on TH-cam, just watched it....I didn't plan to. It's worth watching, kinda surreal (Penguin kid for example)
I saw Gregory’s Girl when it came out in the States, I was in high school. It was me n my sister’s favorite. We had just got cable tv and Gregory’s Girl was played in heavy rotation, on Cinemax I believe. I think we watched it once a week for a year.
I was infatuated with Claire Grogan already through the band “Altered Immages”. I had the LP’s 45’s and EP’s.
My sister was a beautiful leggy model and hence could get us into any nightclub. When Altered Images played Boston at the Paradise Rock Club she got in the front door with no hassle whatsoever then and let me and our best friend in the back. We were 15, 16 and 17 years old.
I went to a lot of proms and a few cotillions in those years, 11 in total. I owned two tuxedos and one beautiful white dinner jacket, it was single breasted with a shawl collar, and fit much like Gregory’s - I was 6’ tall and all arms and legs and a mop of hair.
America had its teen flicks like Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, and Porkey’s -they were crude, often racist, homophobic, sexist; - they seemed to exploit and pervert the innocence of adolescence.
But that’s not what I came to post about. This was one of my favorite movies and still is. And Claire and Altered Images are still doing gigs! I’d love to go see her and the boys sometime.
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for getting in touch Richie. Its really interesting to hear how the film translates in other countries though I wonder if you have grown up with the dubbed version? My video uses the original dialog but there was a reduced version produced for North America where the accents are a little less Scottish.
My mum (sadly no longer with us) at the time was 2 months pregnant with my sister and we were at Glasgow Airport on our way to our holiday to Benidorm, Mum went to the toilet and just leaving the when a woman tripped and fell on my mum it was Claire Grogan.
Saw the actor playing the headmaster on the piano,,he was a very much respected stand up comic in Scotland,, Chic Murray,, I saw him walking into the magnum leisure centre in Irvine to do a performance about 1983!!! Great movie too!!!
The school was sadly knocked down years ago. Locals tried to save it but the council wouldn't listen...all down to money!!
I had the keys and free roam of the school the day the keys were handed over to the demolition company. Thats how I got the interior shots and it was really creepy wandering around what I knew so well from the film.
I remember one night on tv on of the satellite film channels when I was in America this was shown and was horrified with the “Edinburgh accent” dubbing. My American wife who was watching with me for the first time was laughing at the accents.
I refuse to watch the dubbed version. They did the same with That sinking feeling.
"She's got a brraaaaahhhhziiieerrr !" LOL I remember that Peeping Tom scene well. The other scene I remember is where he got a suspected concussion and his mother and I think his old aunt or someone were trying to tear his clothes off to get him into 'hospital patient mode'. You just don't get funny yet innocent 'coming of age' movies like this these days done so well, there were quite a few in the 80s. In the last few decades you get instead the 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' type movies (look the term up) where a regular guy falls for the highly unstable beautiful but elusive girl who turns his life upside down in pursuit of her, think Garden State, The Girl Next Door, 500 Days of Summer, Ruby Sparks. Although in all fairness I think that 'John Cusacks' "Say Anthing' in the 80s was a bit like that.
Can't recall the concussion scene from this movie
Did those guys ever make it to Caracas?
I hope so 😄
@@AstonishingGlasgow I think we were in the 6th grade here in the States when this movie came on cable, it quickly became a favorite for us all.
I have always wondered how the film works abroad but I suppose other than accents and weather the subjects are universal. I think North America got an over dubbed version to try and make the accent more mid Atlantic. Even though their accents in the original version are clearly Scottish I dont think they are so Scottish that they cant be understood by not Scots. Great to hear you enjoyed it, its definitely a favourite of mine.
@@AstonishingGlasgow Kids are kids, we were doing the same thing over here, LOL, we were playing soccer too. I thought the accents were cool and made me want to travel to Scotland.
"Gregory's Girl" Q&A with the 3 original cast members from (2016): th-cam.com/video/ikFeznmXScY/w-d-xo.html
If I don’t see you in the week I will see you through a window
Why has Charlie got a blue shirt? Everyone else has a white one 🤔
good question, I had never noticed that.
He might've been a closet Man City fan😁...Although, when I was in junior school, we had a choice of white...or blue shirts....
this needs to be updated
I dont know how much has changed but the school building no longer exists so it would be impossible to update those scenes.
@@AstonishingGlasgow a wld say 95% of the video maybe even more has changed in cumbernauld tbh
Really? It had barely changed from 1981 to the 2010's when I made the video so they must have gone to town on it in the last 5 years.
@@AstonishingGlasgow The council were so pleased with the job the demolition company done on the school, they gave them the keys to the town.
Has anyone seen the child in the mirror at 4:52. WTF.
Weird, he wasn't there when I took the picture........ Wait, its just my mates wee boy.
I did thought it spooky