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Mounted knights in C12th style metal chain mail recreate the era  the 3rd crusades. One of the scenes arranged and co-ordinated for ITV productions. In just two days we shot numerous scenes including the English Civil War and the Jacobite Rebellion 1745, with Historical Film Services recommending the location, supplying and co-ordinating 50 specialist extras, with musket fire, hand-to hand fighting, cavalrymen, mounted knights and a stunt horse. Part of the second series of this popular daytime programme about regression and the past lives of celebrities.

Why spend a fortune on hiring expensive historical costumes and waste time training extras when our specialist extras can often come ready clothed and schooled in the etiquette (or in this case, soldiers' drill and combat techniques) of the era represented?

Photo: Howard Giles

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19 January 2006