Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Date: 1959
Director: Henry Levin
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox, Cooga Mooga, Joseph M. Schenck

Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone
Location(s): Edinburgh

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Storyline:

A professor and his colleagues follow an explorer’s trail into an extinct volcano and on to the centre of the earth.

Additional Information:

Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson with ‘now’ images by Stephen Dean.

 

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Pipers appear from Edinburgh Castle. Castlehill, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Now. Tourists replacing the pipers. SD

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All second unit shots in this film. The pipers cross the Water of Leith by way of Dean's Path with the Rhema Church in the background.

Now the riverbank is overgrown with painful thorny bushes. SD

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A newspaper vendor runs into view. Grassmarket, Edinburgh.

Now. SD

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Marching pipers approach as Professor Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook reads his newspaper. Looking towards Mound Place from North Bank Street in Edinburgh.

Now the distracted professor would be approached by traffic and not pipers. SD

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  • 24 Nov 2014

Another second unit shot, this time setting the scene outside Sir Oliver's house. Heriot Row, Edinburgh.

I found Sir Oliver's house was actually 6 Ainslie Place, and only three doors along from Old MacPherson's house in 'Battle Of The Sexes'. SD

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  • 24 Nov 2014

The students cheer the Professor's safe return. The Old Quad, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Now. The Old Quad with no students. SD