Just Joe in The Last Bookshop....

Reflecting on yesterday it turned out to be quite an arty kind of day. Pretty much all afternoon The Bakery, a small inde production company, were filming in Mr. Books while customers mingled amongst them. I gather that they've been filming in Halls, Tunbridge Wells, and Baggins in Rochester as well for various scenes in the film. In my shop they seemed to be mainly filming close up shots of Joe, the small boy in the story who is amazed by these things called books which he's never encounted before. (Joe bears more than a passing resemblence to William in the Just William stories which is probably appropriate.) They had him peeping round bookshelves, walking past childrens books, holding big piles of magestic tomes. I even added to the content of the film as the crew took me up on my suggestion to discover JR. Harley's Fly Fishing in among a pile of old books. When the film is released (June this year I think) you probably won't even have a clue that some of the scenes were filmed here but I'll know and that's good enough for me. Good luck to them and I hope they win prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. You never know! Either way I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the final version....