'giant' is a bit of a stretch for 5 buildings and a small park.
Doesn't it count as 5 blocks, not 5 buildings? https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2023/08/4_Backlot-Drone...
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#32'giant' is a bit of a stretch for 5 buildings and a small park.
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#33Looks like the photos were taken before the Gorn attack.
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#34This is the same outfit NASA contracted for the moon landing footage!
They have placed a giant fake moon in orbit exclusively for filming moon landings.
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#36The 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 noob mistakes happen at a training facility, not in combat. Armies that don't do this have huge casualty rates at first.)
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/its-a...
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#37This is the same outfit NASA contracted for the moon landing footage!
"Me and my brother, we hid up in the rafters when we were kids. We seen the whole thing!"
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#38Assembly Atlanta has 135 acres with indoor studios, plus outdoor streets to simulate New Orleans, New York, Tribeca, and "Europe". It's under construction, but close to completion.
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.
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#39You can see both the old and new Eastenders set on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6583379,-0.2755948,240m/data... The old one has now been demolished though
And Coronation St in Manchester https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PVXb4q9xXLzJeje6?g_st=ic
Wonder if they’ll be an Aussie along in a minute to add Ramsay St
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#40Growing 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.
The Paramount Ranch was cool if you grew up watching those titles. Otherwise it was just an odd grouping of buildings. It's all charcoal now though
> It's all charcoal now though
I heard. :( So sad. A piece of my childhood. That same fire actually took the homes of some of my childhood friends too. Heartbreaking.