Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
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#2One of my favorite YouTube channels, Every Frame a Painting, has a video on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
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#4...and Seattle
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#5And Toronto is New York City.
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#6I thought it was funny that almost every alien planet on Stargate SG-1 looked like British Columbia.
Re: Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
#7Nah, you can tell because they don’t have annoying people paint street numbers on the curbs.
That said it’d be difficult to film the film Bullitt in Vancouver unless they cut out a lot of the street scenes, the marina, San Bruno mountain, the old freeways…
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#8Tax breaks for filming and it's not SF specific or even cities. Other planets too, like Stargate SG-1 being filmed around Squamish 1 hour away.
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#9Nah, you can tell because they don’t have annoying people paint street numbers on the curbs. That said it’d be difficult to film the film Bullitt in Vancouver unless they cut out a lot of the street scenes, the marina, San Bruno mountain, the old freeways…
The painting address numbers on curbs was a widespread scam in San Francisco. Grifters scammed homeowners into doing it.
Re: Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
#10Psych (the TV show) was set in Santa Barbara but filmed in Vancouver. They then did an episode where the plot was that characters all took a trip to British Columbia, which I recall being amusingly meta.