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<html> <head> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Windmills and Watermills as stars of TV and film</title> <meta name="keywords" content="windmills,watermills,TV,movies,film"> <meta name="description" content="Mills which appear in TV and films"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="normal" href="../windmillworld.css"> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js"></script><script>_uacct="UA-81527-1";urchinTracker();</script><script src="../js/js.js"></script> </head> <body> <a href="http://www.windmillworld.com"><img id="mainlogo" src="../images/wwlogo.gif" width="370" height="50" border="1" alt="Windmill World logo" align="right"></a> <h1>Windmills and Watermills as stars of TV and film</h1> <hr> <table align="right"> <script src="../js/whichcountry.js"></script><script> if (country == "uk") { var amazonSite = "rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk"; var amazonNum = "21"; var amazonO ="2"; } else { var amazonSite = "rcm.amazon.com"; var amazonNum = "20"; var amazonO ="1"; } var adFrame = '<iframe ' + 'src="http://@site/e/cm?t=windmillworld-@num&o=@o&p=8&l=as1&asins=@asin&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr" ' + 'style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"> ' + '</iframe>'; </script> <tr> <td><script> document.write(adFrame.replace("@site", amazonSite).replace("@num", amazonNum).replace("@o", amazonO).replace("@asin", "B0001WAGL0")); </script> <noscript> <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=windmillworld-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0001WAGL0&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe> </noscript> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><script> document.write(adFrame.replace("@site", amazonSite).replace("@num", amazonNum).replace("@o", amazonO).replace("@asin", "B0002ISG0G")); </script> <noscript> <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=windmillworld-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0002ISG0G&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe> </noscript> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><script> document.write(adFrame.replace("@site", amazonSite).replace("@num", amazonNum).replace("@o", amazonO).replace("@asin", "B0009WT56Y")); </script> <noscript> <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=windmillworld-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0009WT56Y&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe> </noscript> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="noprint" align="right" width="120"> <tr> <td><script language="JavaScript"> google_ad_client = 'pub-0208384664798669'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; google_ad_format = '120x600_as'; google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.windmillworld.com/google/nov.htm"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_ad_channel ='9648864714'; </script><script language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></td> </tr> </table> <h2>TV</h2> <ul> <li><a href=http://theavengers.tv/avengerland/about.htm> Aythorpe Roding windmill, Essex</a> - The Protectors: Triple Cross, 1972 <li><a href=http://theavengers.tv/avengerland/about.htm> Great Chishill windmill</a> - The Baron: Countdown, 1966 <li><a href=http://theavengers.tv/avengerland/about.htm> Meopham windmill, Kent</a> - The Prisoner: The Girl who was Death, 1967 <li><a href=http://theavengers.tv/avengerland/b.htm> Pitstone Green windmill, Buckinghamshire</a> - The Champions: The Invisible Man, 1967 <li><a href=http://theavengers.tv/avengerland/e.htm> Hambleden watermill, Mill End, nr. Henley-on-Thames, Bucks</a> - Man in a Suitcase: The Revolutionaries, 1967 <li><a href=http://theavengers.tv/avengerland/e.htm> Ibstone windmill</a> - The New Avengers: House Of Cards, 1976 <li><a href=http://www.shcarter.freeserve.co.uk/massacre/w1.htm> Wimbledon windmill</a> - Dr Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (Bell of Doom), 1966 <li><a href=http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/liane_broadley/creek/title.htm> Shipley windmill, Sussex</a> - Jonathan Creek <li><a href=http://epguides.com/Boon/guide.shtml#ep052> Sneinton windmill, Nottinghamshire</a> - Boon: The Eyes of Texas, 1989 <li><a href="http://poll.imdb.com/title/tt0552285/"> Drinkstone windmill, Suffolk</a> - Dads Army: Don't Forget the Diver, 1970  <li><a href=http://www.coldcut.com/video/aa/series6-9.html#9.1> 'Allo, 'Allo: Fighting With Windmills</a>, 1992 - Denver windmill, Norfolk. <li>... and not forgetting <a href=../windmills/windymiller.htm>Windy Miller</a> </ul> <h2>Factual TV</h2> <ul> <li><a href=../windmills/scrapheap.htm> Scrapheap Challenge</a> - Building a windmill, Oct 2000 <li><a href=http://www.qwertyuiop.co.uk/gs/atoz/programmes/t/treasure_hunt2/episodelist.htm> Treasure Hunt</a> - TV series 1983 - 1989, used windmills at Clayton Sussex, and Skidby, Yorkshire; and watermills at Flatford, Suffolk, Sarehole, Birmingham, Quarry Bank, Cheshire as locations. <li><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html">Mythbusters</a>, a "popular science" programme from San Francisco often uses the beach in Golden Gate Park for filming, so shows the Dutch Windmill in the background, 2005-2006 </ul> <h2>Films</h2> <h3>Real life mills</h3> <ul> <li><a href=http://www.bfi.org.uk/collections/catalogues/silent/details.php3?filmid=203> Unknown British windmill</a> - The Miller and the Sweep, 1897 <li><a http://www.sfmuseum.org/loc/clfhouse.html> Dutch windmill, Golden Gate Park, California</a> - Early documentary "Panorama of beach and Cliff House", 1903 <li><a href=../world/california.htm> Murphy windmill, Golden Gate Park, California</a> - A Jitney Elopement, Charlie Chaplin, 1915 <li><a href=http://www.totalcress.co.uk/willhay/ohmrporter.html> Terling windmill, Essex</a> - Oh, Mr Porter, Will Hay, 1937 - [<a href=http://www.britishpictures.com/arch_o.html#Oh!%20Mr%20Porter>Plot</a>] <li><a href=../uk/ibstone.htm> Ibstone windmill, Buckinghamshire</a> - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1967 <li><a href=http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Black%20Windmill,%20The%20(1974)> Jack windmill, Clayton, Sussex</a> - The Black Windmill, 1974 <li>Don Quixote - filmed several times! <li><a href=http://www.iwon.com/home/movies/movies_summary_page/0,13160,372862,00.html> Letters From My Windmill</a> - 1954 <li><a href=http://www.tb2.com/demo/dogofflanders/notes.html> Bokrijk windmill, Belgium</a> - Dog of Flanders, 1999 <li><a href="http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/oldmil.html">The Old Mill, North Little Rock, Arkansas</a> appears briefly behind the credits in Gone With the Wind, 1937. (<a href="http://www.northlr.org/attractions/old-mill/">More info</a>). <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-v4PbbHOD8">Pitstone Windmill</a> in The Cherry Picker, 1974 (includes exterior and interior shots for much of the last 15 minutes) </ul> <h3>Fantasy and special effect mills</h3> <ul> <li><a href=middleearth.htm>The Lord of the Rings trilogy</a> <li><a href=http://www.thameswire.co.uk/portfolio2.html>Unnamed medieval filmset</a> - believed to be "First Knight" with Sean Connery and Richard Gere <li><a href=http://members.tripod.com/~EuroFan/BTV6index.html> Mill of the Stone Women</a> - 1960 horror film by Wolfgang Preiss <li><a href=http://www.filmsite.org/fran3.html> Frankenstein</a> - 1931 - windmill, recapped in <a href=http://www.thebigpicturedvd.com/cgi-bin/master/viewer.cgi/The_Bride_Of_Frankenstein> The Bride of Frankenstein</a> - 1935 <li><a href=http://tdmcc.bizland.com/flash/flash.htm> Flash Gordon</a> - 1936, another outing for the Frankenstein windmill! <li><a href=http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Movies/Titles/M/Moulin_Rouge_-_1952/> Moulin Rouge, Paris</a> - 1952 <li><a href=http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Movies/Titles/M/Moulin_Rouge_-_2001/> Moulin Rouge, Paris</a> - 2001 </ul> <h3>Wind turbines</h3> <ul> <li>Rainman - includes a scene driving through the Californian wind farms </ul> <h2>Mills with Literary and Musical connections</h2> <ul> <li><a href=../uk/london.htm#wimbledon> Wimbledon windmill</a> - Baden Powell wrote part of "Scouting for Boys" here <li><a href=http://www.shipleywindmill.org.uk/> Shipley windmill, Sussex</a> was owned by the writer Hilaire Belloc <li><a href=http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/ireland/biog.htm> Rock Mill, Washington, Sussex</a> was owned by the musician John Ireland <li><a href=http://www.geocities.com/hoghill.geo/> Hogg Hill, Sussex</a> - owned by Sir Paul McCartney <li><a href=http://www.bus.brighton.ac.uk/staff/robert/rottingdean/postcards.htm> Rottingdean windmill, Sussex</a> - used as a basis for a logo by Heinemann, the publishers. <li><a href=http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow/longfellow_ultima_thule_the_windmill.htm> The windmill</a> - a poem by Henry Longfellow <li><a href=http://homepages.starnet.fr/globtrot/daudet.html> Alphonse Daudet's windmill</a> - "Letters from My Windmill" <li><a href=http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/Tolkien.htm> Sarehole watermill, Birmingham</a> - a childhood playground for Tolkien <li><a href=http://www.nationaltrust.co.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=105> Bateman's, Sussex</a> - was owned by Rudyard Kipling <li>The converted remains of <a href=http://www21.brinkster.com/bill53uk/SUSSEX2.HTML#SNAPE> Snape windmill</a>, Suffolk were owned by Benjamin Britten <li><a href=http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/10/stiptypty02009.html> Addicroft Mill</a> Liskeard, Cornwall - was owned by the cartoonist Thelwell <li><a href="../millid/1702.htm">Wendover windmill, Bucks</a> was owned by Kenneth Roberton, who ran his music publishing business from the mill. </uk> </ul> See also the IMDB listings for [<a href=http://www.imdb.com/List?keywords=windmill>windmill</a>] [<a href=http://www.imdb.com/List?keywords=water-mill>water-mill</a>] [<a href=http://www.imdb.com/List?tv=on&&keywords=mill>mill</a>] <br clear="all"> <hr> <center> <form class="noprint" method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom"> [<a href="../index.htm">Windmills</a>] [<a href="../watermills/watermills.htm">Watermills</a>] [<a href="../shop/bookshop.htm">Bookshop</a>] [<a href="../news/current.htm">News</a>] [<a href="../sitemap.htm">Site map</a>] : <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="windmillworld.com"><input type="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="255" value=""><input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"><input type="hidden" name="num" value="100"><input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="windmillworld.com"><input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-0208384664798669"><input type="hidden" name="channel" value="3070072078"><input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"><input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"><input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GL:1;AH:center;BGC:80FF80;LH:50;LW:370;L:http://www.windmillworld.com/images/wwlogo.gif;S:http://www.windmillworld.com;FORID:1;"><input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"> </form> </center> <hr> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td>Last updated 23/03/2017</td><td align="right"> Text and images © Mark Berry, 1997-2017 - <script src="../js/email.js"></script></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>