Doug Cartwright received a call one day to get an estimate on leadlights for movie. What he didn’t know was that he’d be making them for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Leadlights are decorative windows that are very similar to stained glass windows. Stained glass is typically more detailed and ornate, while leadlights tend to be more simplistic.
The article can be found on page 23 of Our Logan: Our City Magazine.
Doug walked through the sets in progress, and, at Sound Stage 5, a crew of builders was working swiftly to assemble a free-standing group of houseless, three-walled rooms.
“I’ve got a great set of memories of working on a movie, and am looking forward to the next one.”
“The first batch of leadlights was for the rather drab and conventional Scrubb House, from which Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace depart for Narnia. Then there would be some much more stylish panels of Narnian leadlight to go into the Royal Stateroom doors onboard the ship.
“Inside the next sound stage, a huge wooden ship was taking shape amid a tangle of scaffolding, with riggers and technicians swarming over the half-completed framework. Casually propped against the wall was an enormous fibreglass dragon’s head, with wings, a tail and other stuff visible further along. This was the Dawn Treader, and in a few more weeks the whole massive thing would be moved out to Cleveland Point for filming,” Doug said.
Read the rest here (PDF)
Wow, I can’t wait to see the ship on screen… Hope they include a 3D tour around the ship on the DVD:)
I live in Logan, QLD..
xD
I’ve been lucky enough to participate in the Movie World Studio Tours earlier in the year and the “leadlights” on the door to Caspians cabin were one of the first thing I noticed when walking aboard. The whole experience was breath taking. Unbelievable.
Hey Travis, I got to see the ship on the Gold Coast too. It was amazing. I thought it was fantastic.