Thursday, June 7, 2018

T.N.T Jackson - Jeanne Bell (1974) - Tsz Wan Shan, Kowloon

The location of T.N.T's dodgy meet up turns out to be somewhere near Tsz Wan Shan, or at least that is where one of the quick shots takes us as the taxi heads up Shatin Pass Road towards the shanty town that was replaced by the Shatin Pass Estate. The only problem is that the original Shatin Pass Estate was already built by 1973/4 so I am beginning to think this may in fact be some stock footage or perhaps older footage re-purposed for this film.

Looking at the images below, the most prominent feature is the modern looking (rather incongruous) building on the hillside. This is the Tsz Wan Shan police station and is still there - albeit now dwarfed by the surrounding development. Just to the left is a slope that marks the back end of the local service reservoir and we should be able to see the Shatin Pass Estate at the top of this slope. So either this footage was filmed pre-1967, or the original Shatin Pass Estate was tiny, or the dates given by Wikipedia about when it was built are wrong.

If anyone has any other ideas about why I can't see the estate, feel free to leave a comment.

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