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Harry Potter Years 1 - 5 available on Blu-ray & DVD
A few days ago the Harry Potter films, years 1 - 5, were released with new covers in both Blu-ray and DVD format. We now have the artwork for those DVDs and some interesting facts about the movies, to celebrate the launch. The images can be seen below;
- There are 15 other owls on set which are all trained to carry letters, however, this ‘trick’ was not taught over night and took six months for the owls to learn. To put that into perspective an animal trainer could teach a raven or crow to do that in about a week!
- In the nine years that the Harry Potter films have taken to film, the Harry Potter animals have eaten over 65,000 kilos of food!
- The making of the first five Harry Potter films included the production of approximately 20,000 Hogwart’s school uniforms. Special costumes made for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince include Luna Lovegood’s Christmas dress which took two months to produce.
- One of the first sets ever to be created for Harry Potter was the Great Hall which was built over nine years ago for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The hall is 120ft long by 40ft wide and includes tables and benches made especially for the film with oak tables distressed by chains and axes. The children have kindly helped the aging process over the years, although the eagle eyed prop team are quick to spot the unsuitable graffiti!
- Complimenting the Great Hall set is the house point system, a beautiful mechanism made for the first film. Each hour glass contains tens of thousands of glass beads and rumour has it that when it was first made nine years ago the Harry Potter team where responsible for a national shortage of beads!
- The sets also feature many different books and the creation of these is a mammoth task in itself with 12,000 handmade books produced over the nine years along with 25,000 printed pages of newspaper ‘The Quibbler’.
- In addition, over 3,000 wands have been designed and manufactured for the films along with 1,700 wandboxes. There have also been over 170 portraits produced for the films.
- The productions have used almost six million feet of exposed film to create the five Harry Potter films and another 1.2 million feet to create Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. If all the exposed film was laid down it would run the length of the Hogwarts Express’ route (London to Scotland) four times over!!
Wait, I don't get it. On another HP site, they make it seem like these dvds are just behind the scenes. Is that right? Or are these just dvds just the whole movie? Please answer if you can
Wait, I don't get it. On another HP site, they make it seem like these dvds are just behind the scenes. Is that right? Or are these just dvds just the whole movie? Please answer if you can
Whoa, when I first read about there being new covers I was really excited, but when I looked at the pics I was quite disappointed, because I thought the whole cover would be a new one, with different shots of the Trio from the films, but it turned out just to be the kind of design they changed...and I don`t think that looks too good...
Harry Potter Years 1 - 5 available on Blu-ray & DVD 
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