Forth Bridge - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• There is a scene on the bridge in Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film The 39 Steps and it is featured even more prominently in the 1959 remake of the same film, although there is no reference to the bridge in the book by John Buchan upon which the films are based.
• The bridge featured in posters advertising the soft drink Barr's Irn Bru, with the slogan: Made in Scotland, from girders
• The bridge was lit up red for BBC's Comic Relief in 2005.
• A countdown clock to the millennium was placed on the bridge in 1998.
• The Bridge, a novel by Iain Banks, is mainly set on a fictionalised version of the bridge.
• In Alan Turing's most famous paper about artificial intelligence, one of the challenges put to the subject of an imagined Turing test is "Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge". The test subject in Turing's paper answers, "Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry".

• Sébastien Foucan, a French freerunner, crawled along one of the highest points of the bridge, without a harness, for the Jump Britain documentary made by Channel 4.
• Linus points out the bridge from the airplane in the 1980 Peanuts film, Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!) as they approached Heathrow Airport. The Forth Bridge is 273 nautical miles (506 km) north of Heathrow, and is often visible on the approach to Edinburgh Airport.
• The bridge is included in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas by Edinburgh-based developer Rockstar North. Renamed the Kincaid Bridge, it serves as the main railway bridge of the fictional city of San Fierro, and appears alongside a virtual Forth Road Bridge.
• The bridge inspired the design of the "Tubeline Bridge" which connects Route 8 with Route 9 in the Pokémon Black and White video games.