 One of the myths circulating about this film is that it was "filmed  on location". While there is plenty of location work on it (Canary  Islands, Irish Seas, Youghal, Ireland), over 2/3 the film was shot  at Shepperton and Elstree Studios in England. These include the  Spouters Inn tavern scenes, Father Mapples sermon, Ahabs first  speech on the deck of the Pequod (note the painted sky background),  the typhoon; Ahabs dialog on the whales back. While there are a  few shots of the sixty foot Moby Dick on the open sea, most of the  whale appearing in the finished film are various sized miniatures  and selected body parts (jaws, body cylinders, eyes) which were  co