Living near film locations.

Capt Lightning

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Do any of you live in or near film locations? Have any of you or your house etc.. appeared on TV or film?
I've mentioned before that I now live in an area that as been used as a location in a number of films and TV shows. Yesterday evening we were watching a film on TV when we recognised the location as a short distance from where we used to live. I suppose if a place has unique features or structures, it gets used a lot.
 

Capt Lightning said:
Do any of you live in or near film locations? Have any of you or your house etc.. appeared on TV or film?
I've mentioned before that I now live in an area that as been used as a location in a number of films and TV shows. Yesterday evening we were watching a film on TV when we recognised the location as a short distance from where we used to live. I suppose if a place has unique features or structures, it gets used a lot.
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yes..yes.. and yes...

I have worked in the TV and film production for many years ... my husband has worked in TV and film since he left school and still there at 65 years old.. he's head of studio at a very well known film studio on a show which is Known to just about everyone.. ...but he's worked on more shows than I can list here.. his IMDB is very long...

We are surrounded by film studios here all wthin 15 miles ..and very often this are and my local market town are used for location shooting...
 
There has been an effort to create a new industry around film and television but it is not significant at this point.

There is a family home within a mile of where I live that is rented out as a set for movies and television, also a school in the area that has been used a few times and is now home to a film production company.

Some filming has also been done in our downtown area.

Local folks have earned small amounts as extras.

This is one example but I know nothing about it.

“Big Time Adolescence” (2020)

The movie was shot in 2018 with scenes at the Palace Theater in Eastwood, Sylvan Beach Amusement Park, the Sound Garden record store in downtown Syracuse, and the former A.V. Zogg Middle School in Liverpool, now known as Syracuse Studios.
 

I've seen a few films being shot on location in my area. I used to work at a banquet hall and people said they seen me on the tv news (the waiter walking with the tray). I did a local commercial for VOA (Volunteers of America) That's my 15 minutes game.
 
My small town in Montana hosted Hollywood on 4 or 5 separate occasions. Some of my friends appeared as extras in the movie, "Always", about retardant bombers fighting forest fires. The premier of that film was shown in our local theater, which has since gone out of business. I attended the premier. A couple of people from Hollywood showed up too, but I had no clue who they were. Many scenes containing my friends were left in the film for the premier, but taken out or limited in the final cut that made it to the theaters. I was gone the summer they filmed it, or I would have signed on as an extra too.
 
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Do any of you live in or near film locations? Have any of you or your house etc.. appeared on TV or film?
I've mentioned before that I now live in an area that as been used as a location in a number of films and TV shows. Yesterday evening we were watching a film on TV when we recognised the location as a short distance from where we used to live. I suppose if a place has unique features or structures, it gets used a lot.
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The small town I used to live in was on a few tv crime shows. It was cool watching it knowing everyone involved.
 
I just did a quick internet search:

  • Dead Poets Society: (1989) Filmed almost entirely at St. Andrew's School in Delaware, which was used as the fictional Welton Academy in the movie

  • Atonement: Filmed in Lewes, Delaware, including the 200-year-old cottages

  • Iron Man 3: (2013) Filmed in Wilmington, Delaware, including the Wilmington Convention Center and Cinespace Studios Wilmington
 
Part of Lethal Weapon III was filmed in the parking garage of the office building I was working in at the time. That was exciting.

The outdoor shots of the building "exploding" were filmed about three blocks from my house. We used to walk down after supper and watch the filming. Of course, we were down there for the explosion (actually the implosion of a building). It was spectacular.

I did get to talk to Danny Glover but Mel Gibson was very stand-offish and wouldn't meet fans.
 
Yes. I didn't like the intrusion. Richard Dreyfus appeared in a movie near where I live and I watched them film for a it but they were near a lot of traffic. Not safe for drivers with the curiosity factor that was created.
 
Three films were shot on locations near me,long ago. One with Gene Hackman at a German
Mansion, one at bar with Paul Newman The bar hasn't changed. The Color of Money.
Also I was on the set hoping to be an extra in New Mexico, rural.
Robert Redford was directing and he saw me. they were looking for Mexican types.
 
"A Man Called Otto" was filmed in Ambridge PA. The bakery they visited was next door to the building which housed our family hardware store. She parked in front of it and I got a good look at it. "Silence of the Lambs" was filmed in Crescent Twp. PA. I recognized the homes of some childhood friends. When they broke for lunch they overwhelmed the local pub. Jodi Foster helped deliver food so the local patrons didn't mind the wait. Cool lady.
 
The Lone Ranger was filmed near my home along with other westerns. There were large rocky formations that are perfect for outlaws to hide in waiting to ambush the stage, great places for shootouts, and lots of brush to camouflage a hideout. Also, few telephone pole and other modern things to ruin the effect.

El Zorro was also seen there from time to time, riding Tornado to escape the King’s lancers.
 
There is a town (small city?) not too far away that was used for nearly every scene in one of Steve Martin's movies. Of course when we watch the movie we recognized all the locations shown, since we have friends living in that town and have often gone there. Some scenes of another movie, staring Christine Lahti, were shot there a few years later.

Other than that, I was working as a journalist when a documentary film was made at a friend's place within a four minute drive from my home. Our friend was a sculptor and he had a building he'd invested in as a metal foundry and design studio. I got invited to watch the filmmaking of his foundry process, and I brought my cameras to take shots (at points when a shutter sound wouldn't interfere with the film-production audio).
 
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"A Man Called Otto" was filmed in Ambridge PA. The bakery they visited was next door to the building which housed our family hardware store. She parked in front of it and I got a good look at it. "Silence of the Lambs" was filmed in Crescent Twp. PA. I recognized the homes of some childhood friends. When they broke for lunch they overwhelmed the local pub. Jodi Foster helped deliver food so the local patrons didn't mind the wait. Cool lady.
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How about that. I grew up in Pittsburgh in the South Hills. The town sure has changed!
 
I lived just up the street from the famous Musso & Franks Grill on Hollywood Blvd. at Cherokee from '78 to '84. Went there often during those years.

I took my wife for an L.A. visit 8-9 years ago, so naturally I took her to Musso & Franks, where my old waiter friend still worked. But one night as we walked past the Hyd Blvd. entrance, they had the telltale movie trucks in front, with the restaurant closed for filming. I asked one of the techs what movie they were shooting. He said, "Raging Bull 2". I was impressed. But later it dawned on me that he was just putting me on, because he probably got that question a lot. It may have been Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, or even a film before that..😄. They shot a lot of movies at Mussos. Probably still do.
 

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