August 29, 2013
Transit on film: Amazing Race on the Canada Line
Contestants Jody and Cory (not fully in picture) at YVR-Airport Station racing to the Richmond Skating Oval. Check out full episode here (7:40…
June 9, 2011
Transit on film: tearing down Smallville!
Superman, where are you?! The smooth metal claws of a yellow excavator smash the wooden building just feet away from the news station. Onlookers…
April 28, 2010
Transit on film: Fringe
Joshua Jackson investigates! A scene from the Fringe episode White Tulip was shot aboard a West Coast Express train. Publicity still from Fox found…
October 15, 2009
Transit on film: Smallville!
Smallville is well known for filming here in Vancouver... so did you ever see the episode featuring Waterfront Station? You may not have recognized…
September 1, 2009
Transit on film: Blade Trinity
Vampires at Waterfront? Well, just for a few days in 2004. Blade Trinity, the third movie in the vampire/Marvel Comics/action series, filmed a…
August 25, 2009
Transit on film: Defying Gravity
A TransLink articulated bus, all dolled up for its scene in Defying Gravity. So it turns out TransLink buses have two scenes in the third episode of…
August 11, 2009
Transit on film: 21 Jump Street
A classic clip: Rob Chew passed along the intro to season 4 of 21 Jump Street, which features a Flyer trolley bus ("14 Hastings") and a Flyer diesel…
May 19, 2009
Transit on film: Atomic Train
Some Monday film fun! Thanks to Bryan for pointing out this clip of a West Vancouver Blue Bus in the TV movie Atomic Train. (The bus can be seen at…
May 11, 2009
Transit on film: Seat Ibiza car commercial
Here's a commercial for a Spanish compact car Seat Ibiza, shot partly on a Mark I SkyTrain at Waterfront Station in 2006. First, I don't speak…
May 5, 2009
Transit on film: The Trial of the Incredible Hulk
Well, this might be the best transit-on-film clip yet ---- reader ;-) posted this clip from the Trial of the Incredible Hulk TV movie, shot on a…
May 4, 2009
Transit on film: Paycheck
All right, for Monday, here's a fun item to start your week off. Paycheck wasn't exactly Ben Affleck's finest two hours on film (that was Gigli,…
March 25, 2015
Metro Vancouver: Hollywood North
Film crew near Hastings St. during a night shootPhoto courtesy of John Biehler When I saw the news that Ryan Reynolds was heading home to film the…
October 6, 2009
Happy birthday: the Buzzer blog turns one
The Buzzer blog turns one year old today – can you believe it? After just one year, this blog has over 400 posts, over 3,500 comments, and a…
