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Promotional Stills
Promotional shots from New Line themselves. The best images! These are either photographs taken during filming or direct stills from captured footage, They still lack post-production effects - for example, the inclusion of daemons and other CGI work.
Set Shots
Photographs from the set at Shepperton Studios, where The Golden Compass is being filmed. Contains photographs of the movie's costumes, sets and props! Also features storyboards, computer animation and stunt work.
Location Filming: Oxford
The Golden Compass movie filmed extensively in Oxford. Locations included Exeter College - Philip Pullman's old college and the inspiration for Jordan - the Bodleian Library, Turl Street and the Pitt Rivers museum. This album contains photos of some of the filming - cranes, cameras and crates. There are also shots of stuffed daemons and green-screen props.
Teaser Trailer Stills
Still frames from the teaser trailer footage unveiled in March.
Location Filming: Greenwich
Filming for the movie first took place at the Old Royal Naval College with parts doubling for Jordan College Dining Room. The majority of that week's filming was for the scene in which the Master asks Lyra if she really wants to go with Mrs Coulter. Two hundred students in full regalia, several servants and fellows made up the scene, together with Mrs Coulter, Lyra, the Master and various birds and beasties, with the golden monkey also in attendence.

Further filming was on a nearby river, with Lyra running towards the river wall, down the steps, onto a pontoon and then getting into a barge. (full details) Much thanks to Jonathan for taking all of these photographs.

Be sure to view also the photographs on the BBC.
To and Fro
Shots taken of the actors and actresses starring in The Golden Compass film, as they make their way about outside sets. Currently only contains Nicole Kidman - a collection of recent shots taken of her filming on location in Oxford. Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards have been out and about in costume too, but they haven't been caught on camera.
Promotional Material
Concept Art
Filming
Photographs of the filming process.
Cannes 2007
Photos from the 2007 Cannes film festival, where New Line are making their big push for The Golden Compass.
Rockefeller Trailer Unveiling
Promotional Photos
TGC Afterparty
This is the afterparty for the world premiere of The Golden Compass in London. New Line put on a lavish event, with different rooms themed on various aspects of The Golden Compass - there was an Oxford room, North, Gyptian, and so forth.
Posters