Casting the Runes location pictures: St Mary's Street

[strange_complex]

In June, for the sake of some exercise and something to do in a COVID-afflicted world, I walked down to Kirkstall to take some photos of the ITV studios there which appear in the 1979 adaptation of M. R. James' Casting the Runes ( LJ / DW). I've been waiting ever since for it to snow, so that I could have a go at visiting another of the production

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[huskyteer]

The outdated ads are spooky - a while ago someone tweeted a photo of an airport lounge empty but for a newspaper on a seat with a headline about the virus, and commented it was like something from a computer game.

[strange_complex]

Yes, exactly - or a post-apocalyptic film where the set-dressers were working really hard on the details.