They wanted to know what was happening with ‘police barricades’ in the residential street.

We were as curious as anyone else but as high drama goes it was all something of an anti climax — nothing even slightly sinister.

But the reason for the concern was fairly evident.

There were barricades, a police car and people in uniform getting about.

But it was all perfectly innocent.

What was occurring was a sequence for a feature film being shot in Lithgow.

The ‘police’ car was a genuine American ‘black and white’, one of the famous Ford Crown Victorias so familiar to fans of cops and robbers movies.

And the uniform was also a replica of those worn in some American states.

Both came from a hire company providing theatre props.

Lithgow has been the venue over more than a week for the filming of ‘My Pet Monster’, a children’s movie due for release through Hoyts cinemas next year.

Much of the filming has taken place at the Thompson family home in Ordnance Avenue, at the State Mine Museum and railway workshop and various locations around Lithgow.

Producer director Matt Drummond, from Leura, said Lithgow mayor Maree Statham and tourism manager Kellie Barrow had been extremely helpful in the project.

It is the second such feature movie produced by Mr Drummond.