Hollywood has long been known as the "place" where movies are made, but today more movies are made outside of Hollywood proper than in the city itself. For example, of the major studios, only Paramount is still located in Hollywood. Disney and Warner Brothers moved to the San Fernando Valley years ago and the most famous of the Valley's residents is the theme park Universal Studios.
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The French are in the midst of a love affair with the cinema that has endured over a century and shows no signs of abatement. And pourquoi pas? Thanks to their ingenuity, people the world over enjoy going to the movies.
The Lumiere Brothers (Auguste and Louis) of Lyon, France invented the cinematograph, a device inspired by the kinetoscope that was created by...
The Historic Downtown is the heart of Los Angeles and the home of an unparalleled collection of early 20th Century commercial architecture. Bordered by 3rd and 9th Streets and Main and Broadway, the district encompasses 24 blocks of stunning Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and revival-style buildings in a vibrant urban setting more common to New York City.
Broadway is the backbone of the Historic Downtown. In 1931, Broadway was the West Coast equivalent of...
I wanna tell you a story – Casablanca, for instance. All great movies are great stories. They work the ground between the real and the imagined. But if you really want to learn about the movie business, which is now all about lawyers and accountants and PR men, then go no further than the Casablanca correspondence between Warner Brothers and the Marx Brothers on this...
As you will have discovered having taken the Alfred Hitchcock New YorkCity Location Walk, the director was something of a practical joker apparent not only in the jokes pulled on leading ladies but in his manipulation of locations.
It was not uncommon for him to suggest one place and film another, setting the latter in the context of the former. ...
Dracula, one of the most famous characters in the world, is always linked to Romania. More precisely, with Transylvania (a Romanian province), which is believed to be a foggy mysterious land, with lots of vampires and castles.
The legend of this famous Dracula has its starting point in a historical character, who played a very important role in the 15th...
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Harrison Ford donned an Amish straw hat and danced around the barn of an Amish farmhouse with Kelly McGillis in the romantic thriller Witness. Since that time, visitors have flocked to the region seeking a little of the peaceful refuge Ford’s character found when staying with an Amish family in the...
The unmatched beauty of San Francisco combined with its riches of instantly recognizable structures and locales has attracted filmmakers from around the world for over 100 years. San Francisco has provided and continues to provide the backdrop for some of the most famous movie scenes ever filmed. It is almost impossible to traverse the sights of San Francisco...
Many of us think of visiting a theme park or old town when we hear of the idea of movie tourism. That may not be so inspiring for some of us and we dismiss the idea quite quickly because we are after a real holiday. Instead, expand your mind and think of exotic overseas locations – like New Zealand.
With an increasing number of direct flights from the...
Hong Kong's long history as a centre of movie-making and its reputation as the "Hollywood of the Orient" has now been set in stone - quite literally - in the form of the city's newest and most glistening tourist attraction: the Avenue of Stars.
Located on the Kowloon waterfront promenade with a superb harbour backdrop, the Avenue of Stars has...
The Museum of the Moving Image is the nation's only museum devoted to the past, present, and future of movies, television, and digital media. The Museum is located on the site of the Astoria Studio, one of the largest motion picture and television production facilities in the United States.
