I keep forgetting to mention that if anyone has been wondering why things look so dark outside the dining room's windows in the various shots of them -
- it's because the way nighttime was simulated for these scenes, which were all shot during the daytime, was to hang tarps over the windows to block the light (and DC also used a similar technique on the '91 DS). In fact, one of the publicity shots of Lyndhurst that was given out to magazines to publicize the film actually shows a tarp covering most of the library window. Oddly, one magazine that shared the photo did so in its negative version -
- but that's easily remedied these days by altering it back with almost any image manipulation software -
- presumably on the day the photo was taken, they were shooting the scene of Barnabas, Maggie and Carolyn in the library, or the scene of Liz, Carolyn and Todd. Perhaps even both - though the shooting schedule indicates not...