1. Bath in Films A Presentation by: Claudia Lohse Martin Orgill Oliver Held

2. Bath – a frequently used film set! Bath Film Office: more than 110 projects have been filmed in and around Bath since 1931 Some of the outstanding buildings have been used as film sets particularly often: Royal Crescent Pump Room Assembly Rooms Circus

3. The Pump Room (1)

4. The Pump Room (2)

5. Pump Room with Bath Abbey

6. Royal Crescent and Circus

7. Royal Crescent

8. Dyrham Park, near Bath

9. Filmed (partially) in Bath: Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ealing Studios, starring Alec Guinness The Titfield Thunderbolt, Ealing Studios

10. Oliver! Acclaimed adaptation of Dicken‘s “Oliver Twist” 6 Academy Awards

11. Prince Valiant Cast: James Mason Robert Wagner Janet Leigh

12. Also: The Count of Monte Christo Doctor Dolittle The Canterbury Tales (Director: Pasolini) Miss Marple – Sleeping Murder Jack the Ripper House of Eliott Moll Flanders Emma

13. Chocolat Harry Potter 1 and 2 Murder in Mind Stardust Vanity Fair

14. Closer Look at: The Remains of the Day Persuasion Northanger Abbey Barry Lyndon

15. The Remains of the Day Filmed 1993 Director James Ivory Producer: Ismail Merchant Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s novel

16. Anthony Hopkins is Stevens, the Butler

17. Emma Thompson is Miss Kenton, the Housekeeper

18. Christopher Reeve is Congressman Lewis

19. James Fox is Lord Darlington

20. Hugh Grant is Darlington‘s nephew

21. Plot: set in the 1950 with extensive flashbacks to pre- war England Lord Darlington sympathizes with Nazi Germany and organizes political conferences at Darlington Hall, his home Stevens is Butler at Darlington Hall and embodies blind loyalty and devotion towards his lordship Against the backdrop of devotion the somehow existent feelings between Stevens and Miss Kenton are repressed

22. Miss Kenton leaves Darlington Hall and marries someone else After the war Darlington Hall is taken over by an American Congressman, Mr Lewis Stevens, still in service, sets off to see Miss Kenton in Clevedon, hoping to set his “mistake” right Miss Kenton tells him about her marriage being broken up and again circumstances are against a relationship: Miss Kenton is going to be a grandmother and therefore refuses Stevens’ offer to return to Darlington Hall to her former position

23. About the film: Production budget: 6.5 million £ Box office taking in the US: 20 million $ In the UK: 4 million GBP Movie Map (1998): Castles, stately homes, medieval manor houses etc. Howards End, The Madness of King George, Mrs Brown, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, Wilde, Elizabeth 250,000 times distributed via American travel agencies

24. Dyrham Park, near Bath