And here's the proof! A little Christmas in late August, melting snow and all! ...things have been so incredibly busy, I'll copy I paragraph I sent to a friend last night that tells the story here! Forgive me if I'm absent at present, but I think this is the sort of thing many of us would get a kick out of, given the chance! So, Hallmark Movie, "Christmas Island", coming in December! Currently, Ken and friends are watching "The Sinner" (episode 5) that was also filmed on this same block! I wrote the following in an email:
"Our day today (and everyday we've been here!) has been so filled with work, broken up with visits with friends! Just a glimpse at our last 7 hours (written at 10:30 PM) I'll share with you! Long-time friends invited us to join them for dinner "in town" (consisting of three "main" streets!) We spent a lovely two hours catching up and having a delicious fish meal. We had a little surprise for them after dinner as a friend who drives a horse drawn carriage through town while telling Lunenburg's history, had told me she'd give us a ride before we left. She was able to do it at 5 after we'd had an early dinner, and our friends, who've lived locally, but on the outside edge of town, had never taken the ride! Well, it was just amazing what we came upon! A Hallmark Christmas movie is being filmed here, so the area for the movie set was all decked out with Christmas trees and Christmas decorations in the shop windows! We'd have a great time, said our goodbyes and returned home to pack some more! Later, Ken said he had to run out to the bank and I said I'd come along to get more photos of the decorations, as some of my photos weren't crisp! What did we come upon, now, after sunset, but the trees were lit and it was now a "Hot Set" prepared for filming! We stayed until 10, watched all the equipment being set up for a 90 sec take! While we stood there, a man in a ball cap came up and said to me (jokingly), "Chaos! Utter Chaos!" I said to him, "So what's your roll in all this? " to which he replied, "I'm a finger pointer...I stand here and point my finger!" Came to find out, he was the director! I chatted with several interesting people who had their jobs to do, but all seemed interested in visiting as there's not a lot to do if their task hadn't yet come up! The Hallmark Christmas movie is going to be called "Christmas Island"... I haven't watched television in years and, even when Ken comes across one filmed here, I don't watch it; I've seen a number of them over time. However, when you're there to watch a scene being filmed, it's reason enough to check it all out! So "Merry Christmas!"...it was all melting snow and life from within a Hallmark movie tonight!"
Great story. Gorgeous town - no wonder they want to use it for a movie. Although my own memories of it are lots of small red buildings - but then that was in the early 2000s.
Haha great email and story, I enjoy Hallmark movies at Christmas, I will try and watch this movie when it comes out!
It must be hard saying goodbye to everyone!
Great photo but not ready for snow and Christmas yet! lol
@jeneurell We bought a home for summer gatherings with friends and family in 2021. Still , you'll see images across the waterfront and the buildings are mostly red. We've been told that made them easier to see in the fog.
@radiogirl Christmas movies and Fashion magazines have to do their holiday photography in the summer heat! As for leaving, I thought I was mentally prepared, but some of the best friends we've ever met have been "Our Northern Neighbours"! We're already making plans to visit again next year!
Great story, we came across something similar when were staying in Vancouver with friends. They were decorating a small shopping street in readiness for filming a Christmas movie.
@merrelyn Thanks, Merrelyn! It costs much less to film in Canada than in the US, and currently now, the SAG (screen actor's Guild) writers are on strike and the actors are joining them in solidarity! This couldn't be done in the US just now...
How refreshing...it's been over 100 degrees for a lot of people in the states lately! What a wonderful place...and yes, it does look like a movie set! :)
@bluemoon so funny that it was a beautiful, sunny, mild day, and people (Extras) were walking around in overcoats & scarves! FYI, a movie, "Blue Moon" was filmed here a number of years ago... Opened (as all do), with the Lunenburg Waterfront and the next scene was filled with the front of our house! As I said, "...movie set..." ha!
@photographycrazy What fun is that then?! I didn't know who he was; they said his name (but don't recall) and that he'd been in a lot of this sort of movies. I'm always fascinated at what it takes to set up camera and monitors! (Googled, and Yes, that is him)
@carolmw I was hoping someone would mention "the rainy reflections"! "Hollywood magic!" Before shooting, a truck came down the street, "watering it", and "a grip" took a hose to water underneath the car as well! I'd also wondered at using a torch to burn the edges of the "snow batting", but the next day it hit me, "Dirty, melting snow in the street!!" They think of everything!!! @casablanca@seattlite@pamknowler@danette@kchuk@tunia@wakelys@louannwarren@corinnec@joansmor@gardencat@radiogirl@merrelyn@bluemoon@photographycrazy Thank you all for sharing your thoughts! I've added notes as some of you have noted incidents I hadn't mentioned! And, again, this filming began in the evening of what had been a lovely, sunny day! Magic!
In our country it`s still not done to start with Christmas celebrating before our Sinterklaas on the 5 th of Dec by the older people. But it`s rapitly decreasing.
@pyrrhula No one has thought about Christmas but the folks who film movies that have to be ready for viewing when the holidays begin! Here in Canada, their Thanksgiving is the first Monday in October. As soon as it's over, everyone begins to decorate! I the US, most people don't decorate until after Thanksgiving which is near the end of November. That weekend, people begin to put up light to trim the house and then the decorating begins in earnest!
August 29th, 2023
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It must be hard saying goodbye to everyone!
Great photo but not ready for snow and Christmas yet! lol
@casablanca @seattlite @pamknowler @danette @kchuk @tunia @wakelys @louannwarren @corinnec @joansmor @gardencat @radiogirl @merrelyn @bluemoon @photographycrazy Thank you all for sharing your thoughts! I've added notes as some of you have noted incidents I hadn't mentioned! And, again, this filming began in the evening of what had been a lovely, sunny day! Magic!
I like the slight HDR look.