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A fantastic behind the scenes look at the making
of Thomas and the Magic Railroad movie available only in Germany!
During the summer of 2007, SiF UK member Perryton
was vacationing in Munich, Germany. Whilst browsing in the city's multi-media giant "Saturn" store,
he purchased the German DVD edition of Thomas and the Magic Railroad : Thomas
Die Fantastishe Lokomotive.
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| German Edition of Thomas and the Magic Railroad |
The special features section of the German edition contains what
the United States, Canadian, United Kingdom and Japanese versions do not - a short featurette of the behind the scenes
making of the movie. If that in itself didn't make us now feel deprived for all of these years! The Making
of Thomas and the Magic Railroad is just over 8 minutes long in duration, and although it is not narrated , you can clearly
hear the english dialogue in the background.
We've put together a little slideshow of the highlights from the DVD
itself, supplemented with captions based on our research and a little help from our contacts (thanks again,
Dave A.).
The DVD is still available for purchase on Amazon's German site. Though the purchasing and checkout process is laid out almost identically
as the US, Canadian and UK sites, we recommend that you get help from a friend or relative who can sprechen ze deutch!
Our thanks again go to Perryton
for making this lovely find, with kudos also to SiF's ben for passing the word
along.
We can only hope that any special 10th anniversary edition of the
movie on DVD, blu-ray etc. will include this featurette, along with additional behind-the-scenes footage. As we've come to
realize with this movie, a lot of magic was taking place behind the camera as well as in front of it!
Exclusive behind the scenes footage from the
Isle of Man...
During his stay on the Isle of Man in August, 1999, TATMR Propmaster
and Storyboard Artist Greg Chown had the opportunity to take some personal footage
of the production crew at work. When you see the cavalcade of equipment, vehicles and personnel that support
the filming of a movie's scene, on location a better appreciation of the crew's work and organization is much deserved!
Although the quality of this footage cannot be compared to the one found on the German
DVD fearurette, you'll undoubtedly recognize the crossroads scene, where you can
make out Stacy's red Mustang, PT Boomer's motorcyle, and Burnett Stone's vintage pickup truck. The film crew later moves on
to prepare a 'Muffle Mountain' hilltop scene with Patch's horse, where you can see the Irish Sea and the town
of Glen Maye* from the crew's vantage point facing westward in the vicinity of Dalby Mountain. Greg also
gives us brief glimpses of a few other area attractions such as an abandoned homestead and colourful shrubbery.
SiF would like to thank Greg once again for sharing this memento of the Isle
of Man film shoot with us :)
* With thanks to SiF's Rhys Davies for identifying the village
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