Colin Firth looks sharp on Savile Row as Instagram account Stepping Through Film matches film scenes with London locations

The account aligns memorable screen moments with their real life backdrops 
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Film fan Thomas Duke matches scenes from his favourite films with their real life locations, documenting his travels on his Instagram account Stepping Through Film.

His social media page, which currently boasts over 40,000 followers, sees Duke painstakingly align memorable screen moments with their real world backdrops, from James Bond’s nerve-shredding tube commute in Skyfall to Wonder Woman’s emotional finale scene in Trafalgar Square.

Based in the capital, Duke has captured London locations from the atrium of the British Museum (which features in the final moments of the third Night at the Museum film) to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, which doubles up for nineteenth century Paris in the screen adaptation of Les Miserables.

A new shot, exclusively revealed to Standard Online, shows a sharply suited Colin Firth posing in front of Savile Row tailors Huntsman, recreating a scene from spy caper Kingsman.

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Another Firth film to feature on the account is Love Actually, with Duke capturing a handful of locations from the London-based festive rom-com: the segment of the Southbank where Liam Neeson dishes out step-fatherly advice to Thomas Brodie Sangster’s Sam, Keira Knightley’s unfeasibly upscale mews apartment in Notting Hill and even Heathrow Terminal 4.

"It's wonderful to explore more of the city through film and it takes me all over," Duke explains. "Lancaster House was absolutely stunning to walk through, golden leaf everywhere! But I'd have to say the most stunning area is the Old Royal Naval College - a location where countless numbers of wonderful films have been shot and an environment always worth visiting even if it's just to sit and look at it all."

Duke’s search for the perfect composition has also taken him further afield.

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To reconstruct moments from the Harry Potter franchise, he’s headed to Oxford’s dreaming spires (university buildings were used to stand in for Hogwarts in the earlier films) and to Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, the setting for Dobby’s death in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

He has also travelled to Paris to photograph locations used in Christopher Nolan’s Inception and the Mission Impossible franchise.

Follow Duke's journeys through cinema on Instagram @steppingthroughfilm

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