Popular Culture
Several films and television programmes were shot in whole or in part in Welwyn Garden City, including
- The Tweenies
- Superstars (Stanborough Lakes and Gosling Sports Stadium)
- UFO (Gravel pit in Cole Green Lane)
- Holby City (Exterior shots of Queen Elizabeth II hospital)
- Kellogg Company's cornflakes "Train Buffet Car" commercial (Railway station)
- Hot Fuzz (interior scenes of theatre production and theatre bar shot in the Barn Theatre)
- The World's End (another Pegg/Frost franchise coming out in 2013)
The film Battle of Britain shot scenes at Panshanger Aerodrome and the film of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock was made at the Associated British Picture Corporation's Welwyn Garden City studios.
Welwyn Garden City is sometimes referred to on account of its name or suburban character, for example in George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a sketch by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in Alas Smith and Jones, the TV series Porridge and Strange, in the lyrics of Billy's Line by Red Box, and in a song by Edwyn Collins.
Read more about this topic: Welwyn Garden City
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)