{"id":56162,"date":"2018-10-01T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=56162"},"modified":"2018-10-01T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T22:27:56","slug":"local-business-became-more-than-just-part-of-the-backdrop-for-christmas-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/local-business-became-more-than-just-part-of-the-backdrop-for-christmas-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Local business became more than just part of the backdrop for Christmas movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos courtesy of Christmas Tyme<\/em><\/p>\n

When the film crew for a Christmas movie comes to town, using a Christmas store for some of the scenes seems like a no-brainer. And so Christmas Tyme, the everything-Christmas store on Main Street, found itself jammed full of cast and crew members for one scene in the upcoming Hallmark movie, A Veteran’s Christmas,<\/em> that then led to two.<\/p>\n

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Several weeks before filming began, the store was approached about having a scene shot inside. “We got really excited and thought it would be fun so we said sure!” says owner, Anne MacDonald.<\/p>\n

Staff spent some extra time decorating the already beautifully decorated store, and dressed the windows for both Christmas Tyme and the adjacent Two Horse Gallery. “They said that they would do it, but that if we wanted to do it ourselves we could because obviously we knew what we were doing,” says MacDonald.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, September 26, about 50 people plus filming equipment were brought into the store. They set up monitors at the back, which is where the director sat, while all of the filming action took place up front. Staff had been warned that filming could run until two o’clock in the morning, but they were pleasantly surprised when it wrapped up before 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

They crew was “very polite, very professional, and they cleaned up after themselves,” says MacDonald. “We knew it was going to be disruptive to a degree but we just thought we would go with it and enjoy the experience.”<\/p>\n

And that would have been it, if not for the store’s warm wooden floors. “When they were here they really liked our floor because they had missed a shot that was done in a barn earlier, so they asked if they could come back the next night and just do one take on that shot.” MacDonald agreed, and was subsequently surprised by the effort even that shot took. “Again, a whole whack of people came. It wasn\u2019t just a simple shot. Nothing is simple in that business apparently. But they came after hours so it wasn\u2019t a problem for the store.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t