This (amateur) documentary genuinely represents the very best of TH-cam. It was utterly compelling to watch if you are a fan of Antonioni and Blowup. What a treat - that somebody bothered to do all that hard work for us so that we could delight in comparing 'then and now' type scenes and sequences. Really wonderful work - and THANKS!
Brilliant! Brought back many happy memories. At the time, I was assistant to real life fashion photographer John Cowan, whose studio was the one in the film. I met cast and crew and Vanessa Redgrave sometimes came into the darkroom when I was printing for a chat. The darkroom in the film was a mock-up built by the crew. The real one was under John's flat which was the upstairs part that overlooks the studio in the film, where Veruska was photographed in the early scenes. Best time of my life!
Brilliant film! Blow Up is my favourite film of all time and one of the reasons I am a photographer. I eventually got the Nikon, but I'm still waiting for the Rolls Royce! I did a similar thing in the 1980s although I didn't make a video. it was before the internet and everything and I'd hired Blow Up from the video shop so I was able to pause the film and track down roads etc and Maryon Park by using maps. Then I drove down to London for the day and visited the park and other places. Great fun!
Great job. Thanks for doing this. I was haunted by that park for years, although the movie kind of went over my head. The sound of the wind in the trees during a cool cloudy English summer. No sound track. Got to me. As others have pointed out. London looked better then. So did the world.
Brilliant, a profound meditation on the mystery of time, the ghosts who once inhabited the space where we now exist, and in our turn, we will become the ghosts of the future...
Nice work.........Antonioni. would be proud of your strangely haunting revisit to those locations of New Wave past....I first saw this film at age 15 in 1967 at an "Art" theater specializing in mostly foreign films deemed too explicit for mainstream America.....The themes of Perception and Truth, set against the explosive cultural changes of that period, still intrigue me even as an old man...... Love this flick....Thanks for your effort!
2 words: marvellous, fantastic. I loved it. Have visited most of its locations myself since Blow Up, together with Ingmar Bergman's films happens to be my very favourite ever. Marvellous cinematography. I truly thank you for this.
Same thing happens here in Los Angeles back in the 60's there was more open space buildings had more charm and character now they try to make everything look so upscale and devoid of any charm. Even the park back then looked more warm with the fences etc that are gone now. Great work on this.
Great film, I am also a bog fan of Blowup. I spent 2012 in London doing my postgraduate studies and one of my dreams was to revisit the park. I did so around September in a rather foggy and cold day but I throughly enjoyed my bike ride there...all the way from Blooomsbury. I took a lot of pictures and retraced Hemmings´ steps. So sad to see that the antique shop was demolished!
Brilliant. Thanks so much for this. Such a haunting, unforgettable movie. A shame that beautiful old Antiques store was torn down and replaced by some soulless concrete box. Typical..
Funnily enough Blow-Up still holds up as a film and particularly David Hemmings' extraordinary performance. Whilst much of the 60's product has curdled with age, this little gem remains remarkably fresh.
Great piece of work Daniel. I did a Blowup 'tour' at Maryon Park with my girlfriend in 2011 when we were in London for the last Pentangle concert. Dave.
Woaw what a fantastic work you've done ! Always wanted to do the same but you did it now... and better than I'd have done it. It's a pity the antiques shop has gone and the green fences in the park but strangely a lot of the locations are still as they were ! I'm planning to go to Maryon Park soon for my own pilgrimage ;-) Congrats for your great work.
The movie "Blow Up" had a profound impact on my own development in dialogue, drama and film making. It really was, and still is, a very important movie. Getting back to the same places and see them here is a tremendous "deja vu" type pleassure. Thank you for taking your time and professionalism to make this video.
Super job! I just watched Blow Up on TCM as I had not seen it for years. I wondered what had happened to many of the locations over the years and so ended up here.
Thanks for doing this. Blow Up is why I ended up doing what I do for a living. I first saw it in the 1970s. It's my favourite Antonioni and the best thing David Hemmings did. He was absolutely spot on in this. Blow Up is in my list of the top 5 movies I've ever seen. The park was much nicer back then, wasn't it? Anyhow, very well done and thanks for putting it together.
:) went there today. the sound of the trees, like that in the film, almost reduced me to tears, it was beautiful, too bad it takes forever to get there
Absolutely. The rustling of the leaves in the trees is the quintessence of 'Blow Up' for me. No deafening Hollywood sound effects, just nature. Like in Antonioni's 'LAvventura', where the roaring of the waves suggest threat and disaster.
@@gazriley624 No, it's Maryon Park in Charlton near Woolwich. The area's been mostly redeveloped twice since then. Maryon Road had character back then but now ...
Probably the best ¨real¨ ghosts video ever made. The nice ones, those that pop up at the souls of cinematography lovers.Thanks a lot for an incredible effort!
Absolutely brilliant. I know how hard it is to reproduce these shots . Recently got my son to stand next to a wall that I stood next to in the mid sixties in south London, so much hassle but worth the effort.
Absolutely fascinating. Mr Byrdbath will still be including the park on our London itinerary-maybe even try to put back the picket fence-so much charm.
This was fantastic! Checked out these locations myself a few times as I live in London.. love how you've matched everything up to the shots from the film!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Blow UP is perhaps (yes it is) my favourite movie. Thanks Daniel. Great memories brought to mind, I had cut (escaped) school for the afternoon (as in those days I did very often), to go to the movies. I was in Hi-School in Medellín, Colombia. Love it. Oh by the way, I still have my appendix, would give Jane B. the two minutes, but she never knocked on my door. Ah... memories.
Watched movie yesterday. I did the Google map of the locations based on IMDB.com. I found the studio (77 Pottery Lane, Notting Hill and the antique store/park. The antique/park changed a lot but I recognized the four big trees from the street, Clevey Close, Greenwich,London. What an age we live in, amazing. Can't wait for the day when we can drive down any street in the world in 3-D from the computer. Thanks a lot, very most fun. Nice work. Do more.
This is just the best! I have been wanting to visit Maryon Park and the other sites for years. But missed out on previous visits to London. I saw Blowup ( in Australia ) in 1967 at the impressionable age of 15. It was just so radical - I'm still amazed the censors allowed its release, given how reactionary Australia was at that time. Like other contributors here it had a indelible influence on me. My interest in photography and later film making started with Blowup. As a hobby, I've now gone back to shooting in 16mm colour film just to recapture the richness and "feel" of the late 1960's. David Hemmings was so talented - Charge of the Light Brigade is another great favourite. My only unrequited love from Blowup is my lack of a Rolls Royce cabriolet. It was almost hotter ( but not quite ) to a 15 year old than the exquisite female actors! A wonderful doco thanks again...
This is amazing work! Love how you filmed it. Blow Up is one of my favourite films. Have visited a few of the locations but would love to visit them all, amazing to see how little some of them have changed.
This is fantastic! Very very well done indeed. Beautiful. I paused it many times throughout and was utterly fascinated with this doc. Thank you so much! BIG thumbs-up!
Thanks for this - I really enjoyed it and kept skipping back again and again to look at differences. The compositions and sense of presence of the original film are somehow what make it so appealing to revisit. I thought I was nerdy looking for locations for this film - but you are way ahead! Thanks again - loved it.
I have loved this movie ever since I first viewed it. This film is a photographers film, film. Brilliant. The mood, music, everything. I have to admit that the old London looks more appealing to look at, at least the park did. It's too bad that some of the old buildings were torn down considering what they put up. I agree with an earlier comment about filming it during the summertime. Anyway, I love this what you have done and I love London. Greetings from the USA.
Great job! I must say the changes don't seem dramatic to me and it feels good. I promised myself in 1989 to come back to London one day and revisit a few places but... too late now:-). Thanks a lot.
Fantastic! Being from SE London I became fascinated by this film as soon as I learned the park was Maryon Park just near Woolwich: I took an even greater interest towards it once I started recognising other London features and working out where they were. Another couple of locations that are also barely recognisable today (2013) if at all: 1) London Wall where the 'skyscrapers' that looked so new in the 1960's have all but gone; 2) the long-gone red-fronted Pride & Clarke bike shop in Stockwell
Great video, I'm watching the movie now as I write this and it looks as fresh as ever, a classic British movie. Shame David Hemmings didn't become a mega star after that - he deserved to be. The locations in South Kensington look the same but the other locations near the studio etc. were they demolished the buildings and built council housing look completely different, amazing how a city can change in the space of 40 odd years. It would be good to add titles to all of the locations as I lived in london 20 years, walked those same streets and I can't identify hardly any of the locations you've shown either past or present ! RIP David Hemmings.
I've always been fascinated with "Blow Up" and actually went to Maryon Park and to Thomas's street in Holland Park myself a few years ago to check it out. Your film is great--thanks for doing it!
Daniel - one of the best things I've ever seen on TH-cam! I have written/am writing and have posted an alternative Blow Up Soundtrack which actually 'works,' so this is INSPIRING to see.
Brilliant! BBC make really dumbed down boring docs about the 60s etc, but your independent effort was original and rivetting. Must have been a lot of work but very much appreciated. I always thought the shopping street was Oxford Street but you reveal it as Haddon Street.
Despite indicating Haddon Street, the shopping street in 'Blow Up' is actually Regent Street. Haddon Street (film caption is incorrect, it's actually Heddon) is a block up Regent from where the curvature at the bottom end of the street ends, and it is 'C' shaped, so goes in on the left then comes back out further along. I confirmed all this via Google Streetview using shops in the documentary: L'Occitane and Guess (Crabtree & Evelyn is no more in the city centre) are at 74 and 160 Regent respectively. And the sign for the mews (centre upper frame; woman in white coat turns to face the camera) is New Burlington Mews. Like many, I was curious about the various locations. Though most are not named, when I saw Haddon Street I felt compelled to look. Turns out I had a meal up there some years back, though had no idea of the name of the street.
Love the split screen , then & now, great idea! ❤ Thank you so much! Must watch this film again! Such an unusual atmosphere! The park scene with the wind rustling through the trees & the mime artists pretending to play tennis.👍⭐
Great Video from Scenes in the Wonderful Film Blow Up,i'm going to visit Maryon Park sometime this Spring & take my Camera with me-I cannot wait to walk up those steps & witness that Lovely park.
It's amazing how many locations have remained the same or nearly the same. So many film locations, in particular the US, have completely changed over the years, but the locations of Blow Up are still in tact. Thanks for the great work.
Saw Blow Up when it first came out. It fascinated me then and it fascinates me now - so atmospheric. David Hemmings was made for the part. Super then and now documentary, but it makes me realise how the years have flown. Seems like yesterday when I was sitting in the cinema in Wembley watching this flick with a gal called Patricia *********. Where is she now?
This is an excellent, well done, presentation that I will repeatedly watch. I was in London in June of last year and would have visited some of these places if I had known about this video. Lately, I was planning to attempt to located some these sites. I would have attempted to recreate some scenes at this has done. When you watch this you have momentary flashes and hopes of seeing David Hemmings or others from the movie. Then, the sadness of reality. Thank you for your effort.
Thank you for this. I myself visited Maryon Park some years ago to retrace the steps of David Hemmings. It's so sad the junk shop is now gone, and the picket fence, and the three trees. Oh to have a time machine and to go back to 1966 and see the park when it was at its best.
Congratulations - this was fascinating and very well made. I can watch 'Blow Up' over and over and never become tried of it. I have for a long time wanted to visit the park when I can go to England again (from Australia).
The David Hemmings Photographic Studio was in fact Vogue Photographer John Cowans studio, in the film Blow Up a picture of a diver jumping feet first into the water is clearly seen - a Cowan classic - little dressing of the set was done, the film crew just moved in and used Cowans kit as props .
du hast das umgesetzt,was ich mir schon seit längerem vorgenommen habe - fantastische und akribische auseinandersetzung. - die szene im film zu beginn,wo er den maler im nachbárhaus besucht - dies wäre auch sehr interessant gewesen zu sehen,wie dies nun aussieht nach 45 jahren - war es nicht auch mühsam,die straßen alle ausfindig zu machen? vielen dank und grüße aus hamburg
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This (amateur) documentary genuinely represents the very best of TH-cam. It was utterly compelling to watch if you are a fan of Antonioni and Blowup. What a treat - that somebody bothered to do all that hard work for us so that we could delight in comparing 'then and now' type scenes and sequences. Really wonderful work - and THANKS!
Brilliant! Brought back many happy memories. At the time, I was assistant to real life fashion photographer John Cowan, whose studio was the one in the film. I met cast and crew and Vanessa Redgrave sometimes came into the darkroom when I was printing for a chat. The darkroom in the film was a mock-up built by the crew. The real one was under John's flat which was the upstairs part that overlooks the studio in the film, where Veruska was photographed in the early scenes. Best time of my life!
Hi, John. What's it become now that beautiful studio?
Bet it was
I love the sounds of footsteps in this film.
Really very well done. I can't help thinking that London looked better then.
Sad to see the antiques shop is completely gone!
Brilliant film! Blow Up is my favourite film of all time and one of the reasons I am a photographer. I eventually got the Nikon, but I'm still waiting for the Rolls Royce! I did a similar thing in the 1980s although I didn't make a video. it was before the internet and everything and I'd hired Blow Up from the video shop so I was able to pause the film and track down roads etc and Maryon Park by using maps. Then I drove down to London for the day and visited the park and other places. Great fun!
+mariaud999 Sounds interessting, fortunately I had the internet to find the locations :)
Wow, can't imagine going through so much trouble just to find the location of a movie. You sound like the real thing. Do you have any work online?
Great job. Thanks for doing this. I was haunted by that park for years, although the movie kind of went over my head. The sound of the wind in the trees during a cool cloudy English summer. No sound track. Got to me. As others have pointed out. London looked better then. So did the world.
I agree
This is always going to be the coolest film ever made!
this is terrific. anybody who loves the movie can't help but love this. I certainly do
Brilliant, a profound meditation on the mystery of time, the ghosts who once inhabited the space where we now exist, and in our turn, we will become the ghosts of the future...
+theprophet20 Well said.
+theprophet20 Well said.
indeed
that is scary but yet so true :(
You can´t say it better.
Nice work.........Antonioni. would be proud of your strangely haunting revisit to those locations of New Wave past....I first saw this film at age 15 in 1967 at an "Art" theater specializing in mostly foreign films deemed too explicit for mainstream America.....The themes of Perception and Truth, set against the explosive cultural changes of that period, still intrigue me even as an old man...... Love this flick....Thanks for your effort!
2 words: marvellous, fantastic.
I loved it. Have visited most of its locations myself since Blow Up, together
with Ingmar Bergman's films happens to be my very favourite ever. Marvellous cinematography.
I truly thank you for this.
Same thing happens here in Los Angeles back in the 60's there was more open space buildings had more charm and character now they try to make everything look so upscale and devoid of any charm. Even the park back then looked more warm with the fences etc that are gone now. Great work on this.
Great film, I am also a bog fan of Blowup. I spent 2012 in London doing my postgraduate studies and one of my dreams was to revisit the park. I did so around September in a rather foggy and cold day but I throughly enjoyed my bike ride there...all the way from Blooomsbury. I took a lot of pictures and retraced Hemmings´ steps. So sad to see that the antique shop was demolished!
Absolutely wonderful! Thank you!
Brilliantly put together! This must have taken a long time to do. Great video in memory of a great film.
Really well done, thanks. Having just re-watched Blow Up for the first time in a long time this was a great piece of reference...
Brilliant. Thanks so much for this. Such a haunting, unforgettable movie. A shame that beautiful old Antiques store was torn down and replaced by some soulless concrete box. Typical..
Funnily enough Blow-Up still holds up as a film and particularly David Hemmings' extraordinary performance. Whilst much of the 60's product has curdled with age, this little gem remains remarkably fresh.
Great piece of work Daniel. I did a Blowup 'tour' at Maryon Park with my girlfriend in 2011 when we were in London for the last Pentangle concert. Dave.
They just demolished the Morris Walk Estate next to the park. All those council flats have gone.
Saw the movie several times with friends when it first came out...great scenes of London in 1966, and several were real 60s Classic.
Just loved it thank you for all your hard work.
A phenomenal piece of work. Kudos.
Amazing. It must have taken an age of dedication, research, planning and filming.
Thank you!!! This is brilliant. Blow up is one of my favourite films.
Best location revisit video I ever saw!
Thanx!
@@TKTnetwork Location info would have been useful. Love Maryon Park, hardly changed to this day. Brilliant re-visit.
Woaw what a fantastic work you've done ! Always wanted to do the same but you did it now... and better than I'd have done it. It's a pity the antiques shop has gone and the green fences in the park but strangely a lot of the locations are still as they were ! I'm planning to go to Maryon Park soon for my own pilgrimage ;-) Congrats for your great work.
Fantastic. Would be great to see other iconic London films given the same treatment.
The movie "Blow Up" had a profound impact on my own development in dialogue, drama and film making. It really was, and still is, a very important movie. Getting back to the same places and see them here is a tremendous "deja vu" type pleassure. Thank you for taking your time and professionalism to make this video.
what films have you made?
Absolutely agree 100%❤
Very well done.
This location tour is awesome! Luv Blow-Up movie..& nice 2 see these locations now. Would've loved 2 be in the UK in the 60's. Thx 4 this one! 🙂🙂💕💕
Absolutely brilliant, wish to be there too. Fantastic movie, which is stuck in my head ever since..
Super job! I just watched Blow Up on TCM as I had not seen it for years. I wondered what had happened to many of the locations over the years and so ended up here.
Fantastic work. I live in a city that is always changing (Buenos Aires), where a work like this would be impossible.
Thanks for doing this. Blow Up is why I ended up doing what I do for a living. I first saw it in the 1970s. It's my favourite Antonioni and the best thing David Hemmings did. He was absolutely spot on in this. Blow Up is in my list of the top 5 movies I've ever seen. The park was much nicer back then, wasn't it? Anyhow, very well done and thanks for putting it together.
TheThirdMan Which park is that? London is marvellous (or at least it was when I was there in 1975). I loved this movie. It really captured the moment.
ironpirites I don't know exactly but I know it's in South London, somewhere near or in Woolwich.
TheThirdMan Thanks. Maybe I can find it with google maps.
TheThirdMan I think I found it. There is a park in Woolwich or near it, called Maryon Park. It has tennis courts and open space and might be the one.
ironpirites Yep, that's the one:
www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/blowup.html#.VTmdNiGqpBc
Well done that man!
This is just unbelievable. Being a fan of the movie I can't understand why it take me eight years to find this gem. Thanks and congrats, terrific job.
This is mind bogglingly wonderful. Bit sad to see the wooden picket fence in the park is gone, that fence was the star of the film in my book.
:) went there today. the sound of the trees, like that in the film, almost reduced me to tears, it was beautiful, too bad it takes forever to get there
"the sound of the trees"! Indeed that is something Antonioni taught me to realise that that "sound" exists! Very beautiful indeed.
Yes.....the sound of the trees.....early spring ...that's what got me too..... surreal.......
Absolutely. The rustling of the leaves in the trees is the quintessence of 'Blow Up' for me. No deafening Hollywood sound effects, just nature. Like in Antonioni's 'LAvventura', where the roaring of the waves suggest threat and disaster.
is it Hilly fields in south London?
@@gazriley624 No, it's Maryon Park in Charlton near Woolwich. The area's been mostly redeveloped twice since then. Maryon Road had character back then but now ...
Probably the best ¨real¨ ghosts video ever made. The nice ones, those that pop up at the souls of cinematography lovers.Thanks a lot for an incredible effort!
Fascinating! Thank you, one of my fav films.
Absolutely brilliant. I know how hard it is to reproduce these shots . Recently got my son to stand next to a wall that I stood next to
in the mid sixties in south London, so much hassle but worth the effort.
The best "then and now" ever!
Excellent and very well researched!
Absolutely fascinating. Mr Byrdbath will still be including the park on our London itinerary-maybe even try to put back the picket fence-so much charm.
This was fantastic! Checked out these locations myself a few times as I live in London.. love how you've matched everything up to the shots from the film!
Not seen the film for about 25 years. Liked your documentary! Thanks
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Blow UP is perhaps (yes it is) my favourite movie. Thanks Daniel. Great memories brought to mind, I had cut (escaped) school for the afternoon (as in those days I did very often), to go to the movies. I was in Hi-School in Medellín, Colombia. Love it. Oh by the way, I still have my appendix, would give Jane B. the two minutes, but she never knocked on my door. Ah... memories.
Thanks a lot lot for making this Film location doc! I have always loved this location.Again thanks
Thank you! I loved watching this! Beautifully made.
A culture benefaction! And such a clever way of deep diving in unforgettable cinema. Mille Grazie!
Super, thanks for all your efforts!
Well done!
I visited the park yesterday, much have change but the atmosphere in "Blow up" was still there.
/erik
Watched movie yesterday. I did the Google map of the locations based on IMDB.com. I found the studio (77 Pottery Lane, Notting Hill and the antique store/park. The antique/park changed a lot but I recognized the four big trees from the street, Clevey Close, Greenwich,London. What an age we live in, amazing. Can't wait for the day when we can drive down any street in the world in 3-D from the computer. Thanks a lot, very most fun. Nice work. Do more.
Great job ,thank you very much for posting this !
A haunting, unforgettable film, which I saw for the first time in 1966, and which I watch again every few years, It's one of the best.
Incredible job!Thanks for this docu.
I saw "Blow Up" on TV a few years back by accident. I was amazed and loved it right away. Nice job on the locations.
This is just the best! I have been wanting to visit Maryon Park and the other sites for years. But missed out on previous visits to London. I saw Blowup ( in Australia ) in 1967 at the impressionable age of 15. It was just so radical - I'm still amazed the censors allowed its release, given how reactionary Australia was at that time. Like other contributors here it had a indelible influence on me. My interest in photography and later film making started with Blowup. As a hobby, I've now gone back to shooting in 16mm colour film just to recapture the richness and "feel" of the late 1960's. David Hemmings was so talented - Charge of the Light Brigade is another great favourite. My only unrequited love from Blowup is my lack of a Rolls Royce cabriolet. It was almost hotter ( but not quite ) to a 15 year old than the exquisite female actors! A wonderful doco thanks again...
thank you very very much!! :-)
This is amazing work! Love how you filmed it. Blow Up is one of my favourite films. Have visited a few of the locations but would love to visit them all, amazing to see how little some of them have changed.
This is fantastic! Very very well done indeed. Beautiful. I paused it many times throughout and was utterly fascinated with this doc. Thank you so much! BIG thumbs-up!
Excellent! Love the subtle (unintentional?) shout out to The Police :-)
Excellent research from a fantastic London. Really well made comparisons.
Great job! Thanks for done it & sharing it! A truly landmark film for photographers!
This is great split screen work, showing what was and what is together.
I really enjoyed this, good work, thanks.
Its crazy how well done this was. Bravo.
Sad and hard to believe Hemmings has been gone 18 years now. Loved him in Deep Red as well.
Thanks for this - I really enjoyed it and kept skipping back again and again to look at differences. The compositions and sense of presence of the original film are somehow what make it so appealing to revisit. I thought I was nerdy looking for locations for this film - but you are way ahead! Thanks again - loved it.
I have loved this movie ever since I first viewed it. This film is a photographers film, film. Brilliant. The mood, music, everything.
I have to admit that the old London looks more appealing to look at, at least the park did. It's too bad that some of the old buildings were torn down considering what they put up. I agree with an earlier comment about filming it during the summertime. Anyway, I love this what you have done and I love London.
Greetings from the USA.
A brilliant film esp for those into Swinging London.
EXCELENT!!!! THAKS FOR YOUR WORK!!!!
Great job! I must say the changes don't seem dramatic to me and it feels good. I promised myself in 1989 to come back to London one day and revisit a few places but... too late now:-). Thanks a lot.
Fantastic Work,top reconstruction on what cannot be an easy Changing London
Fantastic! Being from SE London I became fascinated by this film as soon as I learned the park was Maryon Park just near Woolwich: I took an even greater interest towards it once I started recognising other London features and working out where they were.
Another couple of locations that are also barely recognisable today (2013) if at all: 1) London Wall where the 'skyscrapers' that looked so new in the 1960's have all but gone; 2) the long-gone red-fronted Pride & Clarke bike shop in Stockwell
Fantástico! Quien vió Blow up en el 66 lo aprecia mucho!
Very good documentary.I loved to see the places where it was made the film and I loved the way you showed it all,very well done.
Great video, I'm watching the movie now as I write this and it looks as fresh as ever, a classic British movie. Shame David Hemmings didn't become a mega star after that - he deserved to be. The locations in South Kensington look the same but the other locations near the studio etc. were they demolished the buildings and built council housing look completely different, amazing how a city can change in the space of 40 odd years. It would be good to add titles to all of the locations as I lived in london 20 years, walked those same streets and I can't identify hardly any of the locations you've shown either past or present ! RIP David Hemmings.
nice heel clicks you really captured the spirit of true cinema
Love the film and Love this documentary depicting modern day look of film locations.
I've always been fascinated with "Blow Up" and actually went to Maryon Park and to Thomas's street in Holland Park myself a few years ago to check it out. Your film is great--thanks for doing it!
Daniel - one of the best things I've ever seen on TH-cam! I have written/am writing and have posted an alternative Blow Up Soundtrack which actually 'works,' so this is INSPIRING to see.
Maestro Antonioni. Grazie !!!
Great, thank you for this work! The only significant miss is absence of location on Cheyne Walk, others are great!
I visited Marion Park ten years ago. It was an amazing time!
Brilliant! BBC make really dumbed down boring docs about the 60s etc, but your independent effort was original and rivetting. Must have been a lot of work but very much appreciated. I always thought the shopping street was Oxford Street but you reveal it as Haddon Street.
Despite indicating Haddon Street, the shopping street in 'Blow Up' is actually Regent Street. Haddon Street (film caption is incorrect, it's actually Heddon) is a block up Regent from where the curvature at the bottom end of the street ends, and it is 'C' shaped, so goes in on the left then comes back out further along. I confirmed all this via Google Streetview using shops in the documentary: L'Occitane and Guess (Crabtree & Evelyn is no more in the city centre) are at 74 and 160 Regent respectively. And the sign for the mews (centre upper frame; woman in white coat turns to face the camera) is New Burlington Mews. Like many, I was curious about the various locations. Though most are not named, when I saw Haddon Street I felt compelled to look. Turns out I had a meal up there some years back, though had no idea of the name of the street.
extraordinary and moving work probing the essence of Antonioni’s masterpiece. A decade later-thanks!
Love the split screen , then & now, great idea! ❤
Thank you so much! Must watch this film again! Such an unusual atmosphere! The park scene with the wind rustling through the trees & the mime artists pretending to play tennis.👍⭐
Excellent. It must have been a massive undertaking to create. Thanks.
Great Video from Scenes in the Wonderful Film Blow Up,i'm going to visit Maryon Park sometime this Spring & take my Camera with me-I cannot wait to walk up those steps & witness that Lovely park.
Excellent, a labour of love, well done!
Awesome work!! Blowup is one of my personal favorite films.
It's amazing how many locations have remained the same or nearly the same. So many film locations, in particular the US, have completely changed over the years, but the locations of Blow Up are still in tact. Thanks for the great work.
Really well done. I hope to make my own visit to the park this year.
Fascinating, well done!
Saw Blow Up when it first came out. It fascinated me then and it fascinates me now - so atmospheric. David Hemmings was made for the part. Super then and now documentary, but it makes me realise how the years have flown. Seems like yesterday when I was sitting in the cinema in Wembley watching this flick with a gal called Patricia *********. Where is she now?
This is an excellent, well done, presentation that I will repeatedly watch. I was in London in June of last year and would have visited some of these places if I had known about this video. Lately, I was planning to attempt to located some these sites. I would have attempted to recreate some scenes at this has done.
When you watch this you have momentary flashes and hopes of seeing David Hemmings or others from the movie. Then, the sadness of reality.
Thank you for your effort.
Thank you for this. I myself visited Maryon Park some years ago to retrace the steps of David Hemmings. It's so sad the junk shop is now gone, and the picket fence, and the three trees. Oh to have a time machine and to go back to 1966 and see the park when it was at its best.
Congratulations - this was fascinating and very well made. I can watch 'Blow Up' over and over and never become tried of it. I have for a long time wanted to visit the park when I can go to England again (from Australia).
The David Hemmings Photographic Studio was in fact Vogue Photographer John Cowans studio, in the film Blow Up a picture of a diver jumping feet first into the water is clearly seen - a Cowan classic - little dressing of the set was done, the film crew just moved in and used Cowans kit as props .
Thats fantastic ! Im glad to know that. Glad the studio wasnt a set. Makes the movie more real.
du hast das umgesetzt,was ich mir schon seit längerem vorgenommen habe - fantastische und akribische auseinandersetzung. - die szene im film zu beginn,wo er den maler im nachbárhaus besucht - dies wäre auch sehr interessant gewesen zu sehen,wie dies nun aussieht nach 45 jahren - war es nicht auch mühsam,die straßen alle ausfindig zu machen?
vielen dank und grüße aus hamburg
Really enjoyed this! Many thanks