# Why aren't movies required to list all of the filming locations?

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**Created:** [July 17, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-movies-required-to-list-all-of-the-filming-locations/760110 "2016-07-17T09:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-movies-required-to-list-all-of-the-filming-locations/760110/41 "2016-07-18T13:42:22Z")

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> [@Odesio](#):
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> The owners of the house used in The Goonies put sheets up to cover their home to make it unrecognizable. They’re frustrated by all the movie fans who will just walk onto their property peeping through their windows or posing for photos next to the house.

They have had over 1000 people a day visiting that house to stand in the yard and take pictures of themselves. It is on a small dead end street that is constantly plugged with cars and pedestrians to the point that the owners can’t even get to and from their home.

And it was just in a few scenes in a 31 year old B movie.

> **['Goonies' House Shut Down By Angry Owner - SlashFilm](https://www.slashfilm.com/539514/goonies-house-shut-down/)**
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> The Goonies house from the 1980's Richard Donner-directed classic has been shut down after the owner was sent over the edge by fans.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-movies-required-to-list-all-of-the-filming-locations/760110/42 "2016-07-18T17:41:18Z")

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Locations don’t have unions.

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**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-movies-required-to-list-all-of-the-filming-locations/760110/43 "2016-07-18T21:58:31Z")

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’ … Was filmed entirely at Fred’s House of Pancakes in Richmond, except where some restaurant scenes were done in a cavernous warehouse 340 miles away, 9 weeks later, or a small studio 520 miles in the opposite direction a month earlier, or created in a CGI shop in Seoul, composed in San Francisco, stitched to live action filmed in post production in London as that was the only time Sir Dave could do it, and completely reworked in a Seattle editing suite. And the closeup of the burger was don by a specialist food technician in Tuscon. And the sounds inserted by foley artists include real restaurants in Sydney, New York, (label unreadable) and Johannesburg.’

Yep, I can see how it enhances the magic of watching 2 hours of escapist celluloid, and the sooner it becomes compulsory, the better!

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