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The Filming Location type holds places in the world in which a film was shot. Examples include The Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The Filming Location type holds places in the world in which a film was shot. Examples include The Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge.
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| Mission San Juan Bautista |
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Topic | Vertigo |
Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 at the present-day location of San Juan Bautista, California. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form. The Ohlone, the original residents of the valley, were converted and brought to live at the Mission, followed by Yokut from the Central Valley. Mission San Juan Bautista has served mass...
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| Ennis House |
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Topic | Rush Hour |
The Ennis House is a building located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, south of Griffith Park. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles and Mabel Ennis in 1923, and built in 1924.
Following "La Miniatura" aka Millard House (Pasadena) and the Storer and Freeman House (Hollywood), the building is the fourth and most monumental of buildings in northern Los Angeles constructed mostly of interlocking pre-cast concrete blocks (Wright's "textile block" style). Its...
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| Filming location | Black Rain | |||
| House | Blade Runner | |||
| Structure | The Rocketeer | |||
| Building | The Thirteenth Floor | |||
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| Bradbury Building |
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Topic | Blade Runner |
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. The building was built in 1893 and is located at 304 South Broadway (3rd and Broadway) in downtown Los Angeles.
The building was commissioned by Lewis Bradbury (after whom it is named), a mining millionaire who had become a real estate developer in the later part of his life. His plan (in 1892) was to have a five story building constructed at Third Street and Broadway in Los Angeles, close to...
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| Filming location | Wolf | |||
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| Coit Tower |
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Topic | Vertigo |
Coit Tower was built atop Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco. Lillie bequeathed one-third of her estate to the City of San Francisco "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved."
Contrary to popular opinion, the tower was not designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle. This myth persists in part because of Lillie Hitchcock Coit's affinity with the San...
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| Empire State Building |
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Topic | The Butcher's Wife |
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building...
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| Filming location | Slaughter On Tenth Avenue | |||
| Structure | The FBI Story | |||
| Skyscraper | Manhattan | |||
| Building | The Saint In New York | |||
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| San Francisco |
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Topic | Bullitt |
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 14th most populous city in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 764,976. One of the most densely populated major American cities, San Francisco is part of the much larger San Francisco Bay Area, which is home to approximately 7.2 million people. The city is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, San Francisco Bay to the east, and the...
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| Location | Scorpio | |||
| Filming location | Vertigo | |||
| US County | The Last Waltz | |||
| Transit Service Area | The Pursuit of Happyness | |||
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| Tunisia |
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Topic | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
Tunisia ( Tūnis, Amazigh: Tuns), officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country situated on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast. It is the northernmost African country and the smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas mountain range. Around forty percent of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil, and a 1300 km coastline. Both played a prominent...
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| Chicago |
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Topic | My Best Friend's Wedding |
Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois, the largest in the Midwest, and, with a population of nearly 3 million people located almost entirely in Cook County (a portion of the city's O'Hare International Airport overlaps into DuPage County), is the third-most populous city in the United States. The Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, making it also the third largest...
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| Location | Endless Love | |||
| City/Town | The Sting | |||
| Filming location | Music and Lyrics | |||
| Transit Service Area | The Blues Brothers | |||
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| Kaneohe |
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Topic | 50 First Dates |
Kāneohe is a town and census-designated place (CDP) included in the City & County of Honolulu and located in Hawaii state District of Koolaupoko on the Island of Oahu. In the Hawaiian language, kāne ohe means "bamboo man". According to an ancient Hawaiian story a local woman compared her husband's cruelty to the sharp edge of cutting bamboo; thus the place was named Kāneohe or "Bamboo man". As of the year 2000, the CDP had a total population of 34,970. Kāneohe is the largest of several...
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| Angkor Wat |
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Topic | In the Mood for Love |
Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat) (Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត), is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation—first Hindu, dedicated to Vishnu, then Buddhist. The temple is the epitome of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag,...
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| Filming location | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | |||
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| Bank of America Center |
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Topic | Dirty Harry |
555 California Street, formerly known as the Bank of America Center, is a 52-story, 779 ft (237.4 m) skyscraper in San Francisco. It stands as the second tallest building in the city and the focal point of the Financial District. Completed in 1969, it was the world headquarters of Bank of America until the 1998 merger with NationsBank, at which point the company moved its headquarters to Charlotte. The building is sometimes called Triple Five Cal or Triple Nickel based on its name.
On March 16...
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| Structure | The Towering Inferno | |||
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| Kezar Stadium |
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Topic | Dirty Harry |
Kezar Stadium is a stadium located in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. It is the former home of the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL, and of the San Francisco Dragons of the MLL. It also served as the home of the California Victory of the USL First Division before the club folded. It also hosts amateur and recreation sports leagues, as well as numerous San Francisco high school football games (including the City Championship, known...
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| Marin Headlands |
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Topic | Dirty Harry |
The Marin Headlands is a hilly area at the southernmost end of Marin County, California, above the Golden Gate. The Headlands are located just north of San Francisco, immediately across the Golden Gate Bridge. The entire area is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Headlands are famous for their stunning views of the Bay Area, especially the Golden Gate Bridge.
The steep hills sometimes create their own clouds when they push moist, warm Pacific Ocean breezes into higher,...
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| Mount Davidson |
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Topic | Dirty Harry |
Mount Davidson is the highest natural point in San Francisco, California, with an elevation of 925 feet (282 meters) It is located near the geographical center of the city, south of Twin Peaks and Portola Drive and to the west of Diamond Heights and Glen Park. It dominates the southeastern view from most of major artery Portola Blvd.
Mt. Davidson's most notable feature, aside from its height, is the 103-foot (31.4 meter) concrete cross situated at the peak of the hill. It is the site of a...
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| St. Peter and Paul Church |
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Topic | Dirty Harry |
Saints Peter and Paul Church is a Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Located (somewhat ironically) at 666 Filbert Street, it is directly across from Washington Square, San Francisco and is administered by the Salesians of Don Bosco. This building is very unusual in that the parish school is situated atop the church itself and is accessible from stairways under each of its twin towers.
The church is prominently featured in the Clint Eastwood movies Dirty Harry...
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| Baltimore | Topic |
Baltimore (also known as Baltimore Borough) was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.
This constituency was based in the town of Baltimore in County Cork.
It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1613 to 1800.
Baltimore, Incorporated March 25th, 1613.
A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the...
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| Cherbourg-Octeville, Normandy France |
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Topic | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
Cherbourg-Octeville is a town and commune in Normandy, north-west France. It was formed when the city of Cherbourg absorbed Octeville on February 28, 2000, and was officially renamed Cherbourg-Octeville.
Cherbourg holds an arsenal of the French Navy.
Cherbourg is twinned with Poole in Dorset, England.
Cherbourg-Octeville is situated at the north of the Cotentin Peninsula. It is in the Manche département (of which it is the sous-préfecture) in the Basse-Normandie région. At the time of the...
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| Rochefort, Charente-Maritime France |
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Topic | The Young Girls of Rochefort |
Rochefort is a commune in western France, a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a sub-prefecture of the Charente-Maritime département.
In December 1665 Rochefort was chosen by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as a place of "refuge, defense and supply" for the French navy. Its military harbour was fortified by Louis XIV's commissary of fortifications Vauban. Between 1666-1669 the king had the "Corderie Royale" (then the longest building in Europe) constructed to make cordage for French ships of war. The...
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| Alcatraz Island |
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Topic | The Enforcer |
Alcatraz Island, sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or by its pop-culture name, The Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963. It became a national recreation area in 1972 and received landmarking designations in 1976 and 1986.
Today, the island is a historic site operated by the National Park Service as...
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| Filming location | The Rock | |||
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| Philadelphia |
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Topic | Rocky II |
Philadelphia is a 1993 drama film revolving around HIV/AIDS and homosexuality. It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. The film stars Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas, Lisa Summerour, Chandra Wilson, and Mary Steenburgen. It was inspired by the story of Geoffrey Bowers, an attorney who in 1987 sued the law firm Baker & McKenzie for unfair dismissal in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases.
The movie tells the story...
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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Topic | Rocky II |
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest art museums in the United States. Originally the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, its founding was inspired by the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London, which grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It is...
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| Tama |
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Topic | Pom Poko |
is a municipality classified as a city, located in Tokyo, Japan.
Its southern half form part of the Tama New Town project, Japan's largest residential development, constructed in the 1970's.
The city is located in the northern part of a large area of hills in south-western Tokyo, known as Tama Hills, which spans Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures. The entire region is historically referred to as Tama; therefore there are many place names scattered throughout the area with references to the name ...
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| Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex | Topic | Office Space |
The Dallas — Fort Worth — Arlington metropolitan area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The metropolitan area is further divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas — Plano — Irving and Fort Worth — Arlington. Residents of the area informally refer to it as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, or simply The Metroplex (the term was originally invented to refer to Dallas/Fort Worth), which is the economic and cultural hub of...
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| New York |
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Topic | Endless Love |
New York City (officially The City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, with its metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world. Founded as a commercial trading post by the Dutch in 1625, it has been the largest city in the United States since 1790. It also served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. Located on one of the world's finest natural harbors, New York is one of the world's major centers of commerce and finance. New...
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| Location | Taxi Driver | |||
| City/Town | The French Connection | |||
| Filming location | The Day After Tomorrow | |||
| Transit Service Area | The Namesake | |||
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| Convict Lake | Topic | Star Trek: Insurrection |
Convict Lake (elevation ), is a lake in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada in California, USA. It is known for its fishing and the dramatic mountains (including Mount Morrison) that surround the lake.
The lake was named after an incident in 1871, where a group of convicts escaped from prison in Carson City. A posse, led by Sheriff Robert Morrison, encountered the convicts near the head of what is now Convict Creek. Morrison was killed in the encounter, and Mount Morrison was named after...
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| Los Angeles International Airport |
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Topic | Airplane! |
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving Los Angeles, California, United States. It is often referred to by its airport code LAX, with the letters pronounced individually. LAX is located in southwestern Los Angeles in the neighborhood of Westchester, from the downtown core.
With 61,895,548 passengers in 2007, LAX is the fifth busiest airport in the world and is served by direct flights to North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and The Middle East. The...
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| Airport | Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB | |||
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| Golden Gate Bridge |
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Topic | Bicentennial Man |
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both US Highway 101 and California Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County.
The Golden Gate Bridge had the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937 and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and California. Since its...
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| Bridge | Boys and Girls | |||
| Structure | The Bridge | |||
| Filming location | The Core | |||
| Location | Dirty Harry | |||
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| Ransom Everglades |
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Topic | Wild Things | |
