It’s back to green screen technology for the spectacular ‘New York’ Exposition, where Howard Stark ( Dominic Cooper) demonstrates the hovering car and Steve Rogers finally succeeds, with the help of Dr Erskine ( Stanley Tucci), in enlisting.

The ensuing back-alley punch-up was filmed on the Pinewood Studio backlot. It’s barely glimpsed, but we’ll see more of its red and gilt grandeur later. The big outdoor scenes of arctic wastes and rugged mountains were filmed using impressive green screen techniques in the studio, while London, Manchester and Liverpool all stood in for ‘Brooklyn’.įor instance, the cinema where disturbingly skinny Steve Rogers ( Chris Evans) confronts a loudmouth during the patriotic newsreel, is the famous Hackney Empire theatre in East London. The production seems wilfully perverse – the most patriotically-named All-American Stars’n’stripes hero, filmed almost entirely in the UK, using state-of-the-art technology to convince us its buff star is a seven stone weakling.

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