Tinderbox by Megan Dunn

Author:Megan Dunn [Megan Dunn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910296868
Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
Published: 2017-11-22T22:00:00+00:00

On Day 23 of NaNoWriMo it seemed imperative that I establish exactly what kind of trees are outside the property that doubled as Montag and Linda’s house in Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451. Anything to help my word count.

I ended up on an old britmovie.co.uk forum.

In 2007 Mark O had asked the group for ideas on where Montag and Linda’s ultra-modern looking bungalow was located.

Someone called Christoph404 had suggested looking around the Alton Estate in Roehampton.

Then, another contributor called Dan had cruised Edgecombe Park. He thought he spotted the bungalow, or or at least one that looked similar.

The website was full of men searching for the location of the house.

It turned out that ‘Phil’ was the one in the know. The bungalow scenes surrounded by silver birches were shot near his house at Edgecombe Park, Crowthorne, Berks.

Silver Birch trees. I had found my answer quickly. The same could not be said for the contributor ‘Steve’, who wanted the exact address. ‘Even just the road name would help a lot.’

The conversation thread was now years out of date so there was no point in telling Steve that the property – a Renway Type 60 bungalow on Linkway, Edgecumbe Park – had been privately sold by Bungalow Industries, a company run by a design duo with a passion for midcentury modernism. Bungalow Industries had been based in the Fahrenheit bungalow until they sold it – and had even made a jazzy online catalogue, featuring photos of the house interior from the movie and this quote from New Homes Magazine in 1967:

How often do we see and hear it advertised? “Houses for modern living” “Houses of advanced design” “Your home for the future” – and yet when a house of sufficiently advanced design was required for Fahrenheit 451 – set some fifty years ahead in time – the design chosen was a Renway home at Edgecumbe Park, Crowthorne. On this development part of this excellent film was shot, and the residents enjoyed the excitement of seeing Julie Christie, Oskar Werner and producer Francois Truffaut on their very doorsteps.

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