I live in beautiful Canmore, Alberta. Many movies are filmed in these here parts. The Edge; Mystery, Alaska; Snow Dogs - you get the idea.
Currently, a pilot for a WB Series is being filmed here. Treat Williams is in town. No, I haven’t seen him, but I’ll bet he’s still handsome.
My office is one block from main street. It is on the corner of main and the avenue beside my office that most of the filming is being done. They’ve turned a historical landmark hotel into the Everwood. I believe it’s supposed to be a train station or something. The CIBC bank has become the Everwood Savings and Loan. The Corner Art Gallery has become a doctor’s office. Locals’ vehicles have been hired for dressing, and they have false Colorado plates on them. It’s quite neat.
This morning I went to the coffee place to get a muffin, and was flirted at by production clue. I like the film crew.
Now if they would only allow traffic on main street all day, I’d be happier. I keep hearing clients complain that it’s difficult to get to the office. Butt heads don’t realize how much money these people pump into the economy. Alec Baldwin and Arnold Schwarzenegger both bought expensive homes here after filming and falling in love with the town. I keep telling the complainers to suck it up.
Have you ever watched filming? Had a similar experience?
I was on vacation in Wilmington, NC a few years back and they suddenly set up shop and started filming a scene of “Dawson’s Creek” right outside the bar I was having lunch in.
I watched for a while and then went bakc to my pizza and beer. Closest I’ve ever been.
In 1980, my wife managed to wangle an invitation for herself, her mother, and I to watch a little of the filming of a made for TV movie called Skyward. (My mother-in-law had met the star, Bette Davis, many years earlier (long story).)
We got to meet Bette Davis and watch Ron Howard direct her. (Well, mostly he directed the cameraman and a guy manipulating the mock airplane she was in.)
Howard Hesseman and Anson Williams were also on the set.
I got to hang out on the set of “The Sixth Sense” when they were filiming. My father is a SAG member and does a lot of work in Philadelphia and New York. When he got picked to work on “Sixth Sense” I drove him to the location and hung around for awhile with some guys that he knew on the crew.
It was actually a lot of fun and although neither my dad nor I got on screen my car made it into a couple of scenes. It’s barely visible in the finished film, but you can see it on the DVD.
On the DVD, if you go to the “deleted scenes” and cue up “A Visit To Mr. Schnable” (or something like that), you’ll see Haley Joel Osment run across the street behind a beige Cadillac Sedan DeVille. That’s Eloise, my former sled.
They filmed part of The Time Machine in Schenectady, New York; at the time, my foster siblings had meetings with a therapist once a week near the place that they were filming in, but we never actually saw anything nifty. Some friends of a friend were extras, though.
I’m just finishing a two week training class that’s being held at the former Cecil Field Naval Air Station in Jax - the Navy is leasing some of its former buildings from the city of Jacksonville for some of our engineers… anyway, there’s a movie being filmed here now - I don’t know which one, but John Travolta is in it.
As I passed the old base chapel, I saw a military jeep on a trailer behind a truck - all rigged up with lights and cables and stuff - I guess for a driving scene. And there were several trucks and some HUGE lights sitting on the ground near there. No people tho, so they must be shooting at night. I’m not inclined to go there after dark…
Never saw anyone filming a move/TV show, but on my way to work I saw them filming a commercial. I was there for an hour, and they just kept shooting it over and over and overandover… you get the picture. They were still at it when I went home 8 hours later :eek:
Yay Schenectady! I believe The Way We Were was filmed at Union College in Schenectady, as well. The Horse Whisperer was filmed in nearby Saratoga, and The Age of Innocence was filmed partially in Albany. I’m so proud of upstate New York.
They filmed a movie in my hometown (Brooks) awhile back. I got to meet some of the crew, and I knew about half of the extras. But the release has been delayed and delayed, and now nobody believes me that they actually filmed it! Has anybody heard of a recent movie called Texas Rangers, starring, among others, James VanDerBeek? Didn’t think so. But they made it! And I will make everyone I know see it when/if it is finally released.
And they filmed most of Clint Eastwood’s * Unforgiven* in Brooks, too. But I didn’t meet any of the crew on that one.
Considered, for a short while, going to see Texas Rangers with Gunslinger a while back - heck, we saw American Outlaws (parts of it) (wwnn), so we might as well watch some more teen-idols-dress-up-like-cowboys movies. They filmed it in CANADA? Could they have gotten further, physically, from the actual setting?
When I lived in Oxford, there always seemed to be one production or another going on in and around the colleges. Our most frequent visitor was Inspector Morse, filmed in Brasenose College; later on, the BBC production The Sins was filmed outside of my old college (Jesus College). The Saint was partly filmed in and around the “History local” pub The King’s Head.
Never had much contact with the film crews though. They were always seemed an incredibly surly lot who were overly concerned that students would nick the sandwiches from their lunch tables. Which, of course, we all did.
