Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:
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> "FreddieCrazyThingCalledLove " <FreddieCrazyThingCalledLove@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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spake thusly:
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>> Like all of us over time, we can spot common
>> movie filming spots and know its Vancouver, New York, Los Angles.
>> ext. Some places One can tell it's A Hollywood film done in Echo park
>> (Altadena, CA some stupid The Rock film), Echo Lake, Los Angels,
>> (Rocky i i i) or The Katana episode of Highlander:The Series, or trhe
>> same scene for some other movie.
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> I can often tell New York vs. Chicago vs. LA vs. Philadelphia
> vs. Baltimore. But despite this being ATH, Vancouver is not one I can
> immediately recognize.
>
I can spot Vancouver anytime, no matter where it's pretending to be
this week. :-)
> One annoying thing: a lot of series will mostly film in one place, but
> occasionally throw in some short clips of a different place where the
> film supposedly takes place. In at least some cases, they visit the
> official location once during the season, take a bunch of short clips
> during that one visit, and then insert them into eps throughout the
> year. Guess that's a cheap way to give "authentic" flavor without
> having to film the whole season on location.
>
then they forget and get the sounds wrong - like a Parisian police
siren in a Leeds (England) street scene.
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Jette Goldie
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