The Burnham Beeches is a forest preserve in Buckinghamshire in England, populated mostly with beeches, some of them seven hundred years old. It is almost a thousand acres of fantastical trees, animals and what may be a Bronze Age fort. It has long been a favorite filming site for historical dramas. Its proximity to Pinewood, Shepperton and Bray film studios helped in this last.In 1909, Cecil Hepworth sent Gaston Quiribet out to make a long shot of it and the three and a half minute long panning shot can still be seen on the BFI site on YouTube. It is a simple-looking operation, yet breath-taking in its view of the carefully copiced nature preserve -- like a long stereopticon slide. It was also an interesting test run for the use of the Beeches for a filming location. Mostly it's just a film of something that looks like it was composed in a computer, yet exists in reality.