A big thank-you to all of our contributors who are helping us to make great progress in identifying film locations.

We are always looking for more location identifications, info, snippets, anecdotes or references. We will mention anyone who helps, see the blog, and give full credit to anyone who sends in location shots.

Do also send us background information about the film and locations, and you or your friends or family involvement.

ReelStreets Publishing Criteria

Our focus is feature films that have recognisable outside, outdoor, built-up locations using real streets. We seek "THEN" and "NOW" photos of scenes with actors shot on real street locations - but NOT famous places like Buckingham Palace we all know, or countryside scenes or studio sets, just real buildings in real streets.

The original “THEN” film scene must include at least one actor.

All films need to be full length features of 60 mins or more which had a commercial cinema release. Please, no documentaries, advertising films or shorts.

Copyright

Notes explaining our use of images on this site are to be found at: Copyright

Rules of Submission

If you want to submit pictures, that you have “grabbed” from an original film we have not yet put up on site (our “wants” list are the films written in black script on the various list entered from the Home Page panel Film Lists / Reel streets Films) please send a copy VHS tape or a DVD to support your claim. We’ll pay your postage and send you £5.00, not to buy the tape, which is illegal, but to cover your time, expenses and postage. Or we’ll swap one of our tapes for one of yours if you prefer. This is called an “enabling” fee.

Our site includes many 'establishing' or 'panning' shots to help you identify scenes where actors were shot in close-up.

Please identify the site of your picture, the location, the address.
Please identify your picture by file name or number.
Please identify our "then" picture by our reference number.


Technical Requirements

If you can handle ‘Photoshop’ or another picture-manipulating programme (the kids at your Internet café can help), send your image 420 pixels wide (landscape) format. Files should be sent as JPEG(.jpg) and saved at quality 4 or 5, or 40-50%.

If you are a windows user but don't have software like Photoshop, you can resize any photo down to 640 x 480 pixels (which is the optimal size for Emails) by using software commonly found bundled on most windows systems, as follows:
1. Right click on the thumbnail image of a photo and choose 'open with'
2. Open with either 'Paint' or 'Microsoft Office Picture Manager'. ('Paint' is almost always bundled into the operating system for free).
3. In 'Paint' Click on the 'Image' tab and select 'Attributes' Enter 640 x 480 in the appropriate boxes and then 'save' or 'save as'.
4. In Microsoft Office Picture Manager Click the 'Edit Pictures' tab select 'Resize' Enter 640 x 480 in the 'custom width' box and then 'save' or 'save as'.
Also, If you are capturing images on a digital camera there's usually an option to select the size of the photo before you actually take it.
Choose any of the following 4 settings and the picture should save in 640 x 480 and wont need to be resized further:
640 x 480
VGA
Email
EBay

Please do not send more than 500K of data at a time or you’ll bung up our computers which operate on a very narrow bandwidth in our small Italian valley.

Finally - Please check with us before you get too deeply involved as someone else may be working on the same film and we may have the information already in stock waiting to be loaded.

And again because although its really obvious to you what you're talking about, at our end, with lots of emails, photos, descriptions and details coming in each day I do, at my age, sometimes get confused. But we do need clear references from you about the film title and still reference.

Please be aware that we are currently about three months behind with loading information, so please be patient.

Thanks and happy viewing/sleuthing

John Tunstill