My friends and some coworkers and I went to the NYC premiere of Howl's Moving Castle over the summer. There were some cameramen there shooting footage of the line, and it turns out that they were shooting extras for the Japanese release of the Howl's DVD, which I bought. The last picture is of John Culhane, who teaches History of Animation at NYU and some other schools in the city. He's in the DVD Extras actually saying something about the film, even if he only gets in a partial sentence.