Many of those European films are shot in Prague where the DPP will happily
dress up trams to look like a tram from another city. Hungary is another
common film setting. After all, all European cities and their trams surely
look the same don't they?? The cost of locations is typically the major
driver. Too expensive to shoot in France, Germany or Italy nowadays. As
soon as the iron curtain fell, the Producers were off eastwards, even
before, as early as "Amadeus".

Tony P

On Monday, 20 March 2023 at 18:34:36 UTC+11 Tony Galloway wrote:

> For most film or TV show producers, a tram is a tram, a train is a train,

> a motorcycle is a motorcycle, no matter how anachronistic or inappropriate,

> knowing that only the “rivet counters” would notice or care about it. With

> bikes, often product placement is involved, like with a late model

> Harley-Davidson in a Raiders of the Lost Ark movie set before WW2.

>

> It sounds like they at least found an Italian tram and didn’t trot over to

> Crich and try passing off some double decker as Genoese.

>

> Tony

>

> > On 20 Mar 2023, at 18:22, Dudley Horscroft transit...@...>

> wrote:

> >

> >

> > I watched an episode allegedly set in Genoa. Close to the start, there

> was a street scene with a supposedly Genoa tram in it. This appeared to be

> of wooden construction, with the framework revealed and the usual outer

> cladding removed. Looked to me like a Peter Witt from Milan. Had Peter

> Witts ever operated in Genoa.? Moreover the livery was orange. When I last

> saw trams in Genoa, they were flush sided, the sort of semi stream lined

> tram favoured in the 1940s, and finished in a two tone green livery - and

> eventually scrapped when the system later closed. Towards the end there was

> another street scene, with what appeared to be similar to a Duewag motor

> plus trailer set from the 1950s, again finished in an orange livery.

> >

> > Any thoughts on this?

> >

> > Regards

> >

> > Dudley Horscroft

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