# Visiting historic film and TV locations. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-historic-film-and-tv-locations/767715 "2016-10-05T16:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-historic-film-and-tv-locations/767715/1 "2016-10-05T16:30:07Z")
Phil is based in LA and hunts down famous locations. He even poses in the pics similar to the original actor. His attention to detail is very good. He usually gets the original angle right too. Quite surprising how many places still look the same decades later. > **[dat scene](https://datscene.tumblr.com/)** > > Exploring film and historically significant sites. No biggie, just a hobby. I used to have a similar link to a guys blog that traveled across the country doing the same thing. I lost it and Google is failing me. For example, He visited Archer Texas where the Last Picture Show filmed. He even found the pool at some college hundreds of miles away. I hate that I lost that link. He visited dozens of film locations. I love this shot from Halloween. Trees are still leaning the same way. Haven’t gotten much bigger in 40 years either. > **[dat scene: Photo](https://datscene.tumblr.com/image/88493029400)** > > Exploring film and historically significant sites. No biggie, just a hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-historic-film-and-tv-locations/767715/2 "2016-10-05T17:42:32Z")
Interesting site. I wish there was an index by title. Found [this picture](http://datscene.tumblr.com/image/125348411465) of Marilyn Monroe. Isn’t that also where Jim’s trailer was in _The Rockford Files_? There are also a couple shots in the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. I’ve looked into that and I read that it was now a police station, and that you couldn’t get past the first floor anymore. Plus, he uses pictures from _Blade Runner_, but the Bradbury was also in _Double Indemnity_ and a great Outer Limits episode called _Demon with a Glass Hand_. Decades ago I read an article by someone who tried to find some locations in Oregon where Buster Keaton shot _The General_, including the finale where the locomotive collapsed on a burning bridge into a river. That was before I’d seen the movie. Now that I have (and it’s brilliant, by the way) I wish I could read that again, or maybe find the locations and visit them myself. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-historic-film-and-tv-locations/767715/3 "2016-10-05T18:02:41Z")
It is a cool site. i wish I could do that. Takes a lot of research (and sometimes a travel budget. Like to Berlin). I didn’t think _Double Indemnity_ used the Bradbury Building, but _D.O.A._ definitely did. That is such a cool building. Michael Connely’s Harry Bosch books reference it as the location of Internal Affairs, but also of private offices. I’d sure like to be able to visit it someday, without being investigated! I agree about indexing. Does he have one for Union Station? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-historic-film-and-tv-locations/767715/4 "2016-10-05T19:20:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I didn’t think _Double Indemnity_ used the Bradbury Building, but _D.O.A._ definitely did. That is such a cool building. Hmm, I thought _Double Indemnity_ was shot there, but after a bit of googling it looks like you’re right. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-historic-film-and-tv-locations/767715/5 "2016-10-05T19:37:01Z")
There’s an actual name for this practice which have since forgotten, but [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2741817/Lights-camera-action-shot-Globetrotting-film-buff-recreates-iconic-movie-scenes-placing-vintage-stills-modern-day-locations.html)’s another example (using stills from the film superimposed over the current location).