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This is the same outfit NASA contracted for the moon landing footage!
NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to film the Moon landings but he insisted on authenticity so they had to film it on location on the Moon.
CTRL+F 'hallmark' = No results...? One would have thought that would be the main location, as dozens (hundreds?) of these have been filmed in Canada. Sets, tons, plots and actors are all generic and interchangable...
They shoot a bunch of Hallmark xmas movies in my town near Ottawa Canada. There is a half-abandoned strip mall that is now filled with Christmas crap and fake snow. They shot I think 4 movies there last year.
The US military builds dummy towns for training purposes. This is called "MOUT" training, for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The current ones look like towns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA has the biggest one.[1] (There's a very good reason for that sort of thing. Most infantry casualties are among soldiers new to combat. Very realistic training means that most…
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Reminds me of when Stanely Kubrick had an assistant take hundreds of pictures of doors in London to find the perfect shot of a hooker in a doorway: https://old.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/vhlcha/a_qu... Although Eyes Wide Shut was still filmed mostly on a studio set in London where they recreated Greenwich Village, his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings.
> his other films took quite an interest in perfecting the settings. Kubrick took quite an interest in perfecting all aspects of his films. https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-the-shining-scene-guinn... : “Stanley Kubrick movies are notorious for having multiple takes. One instance is in Eyes Wide Shut, when Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill Hartford walks through a door. He just walks through a door. That's it. 95 times Cruise…
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That's on the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City, next to Hollywood. It's on the tour when they aren't filming other movies there. Amadeus filmed there too.
Think they are in the process of tearing down the WB one (christmas vacation, bewitched, partridge family, wandavision, etc) to make room for sound stages. The universal one is unique if you know what to look for. It pops up in a lot of older TV shows. It is kind of neat to see it in twilight zone before they built some of it out. There are quite a large number of vids on youtube where people go inside the buildings.…
Recent ones too: https://hiddenremote.com/2018/02/28/travel-good-place-neighb...
I understand the need but it bother me so much to recognise a studio when watching a tv show (or cheap movie). It's like the Wilhelm scream, it immediately reminds me I'm watching a something. Especially the paramount studio https://www.paramountstudios.com/new-york-backlot.html
Parks and Recreation drove me crazy because they used b-roll of the Pasadena City Hall exterior as a stand in for Pawnee City Hall, simply because it’s what everyone in the LA area pictures when they think “impressive city hall”
Looks like the photos were taken before the Gorn attack.
The US military builds dummy towns for training purposes. This is called "MOUT" training, for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The current ones look like towns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA has the biggest one.[1] (There's a very good reason for that sort of thing. Most infantry casualties are among soldiers new to combat. Very realistic training means that most…
Google Maps link, for those curious: https://goo.gl/maps/Pnyjs4RsQbdzrFbY9 Edit: N 35°20'58.0" W 116°35'39.1"
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It's fascinating that something like that is being built at a time when most blockbusters are essentially animation films.
Ground breaking CGI used to be a selling point because you do things that weren't before possible. Nowadays everything is more or less possible in CGI and it has lost its appeal a bit. Now it's appealing to advertise the fact you're doing things for real.
Growing up in LA, we had a few of these around. The most famous of course was Universal Studios, where you could pay for a tour. But my favorite was Paramount Ranch. A bunch of stuff was filmed there in the 50s-70s, and it was open the public. I actually used it to make a movie with my friends in high school. It was pretty cool to have a prebuilt town around that was basically empty.