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Daily What?! The Daily Bugle MTA Bus
Our ever intrepid history editor, Benjamin Waldman (the Peter Parker of Untapped?), spotted this MTA Bus with an ad for The Daily Bugle, the fictional newspaper in Spiderman (and other Marvel comics)...
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Filming “The Americans” at Columbia University’s Italian Academy
The Americans, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Russian KGB agents posing as suburban Americans living in Washington D.C., has been filming many scenes right here in New York City. In the...
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Film Locations: Preserving La Villa Basque in LA, Where Mad Men Was Filmed
La Villa Basque, as we saw it on Mad Men. Source: Flickr Mad Men has been repeatedly praised for its accurate depiction of the period. It turns out they often shoot in or with real historical buildings...
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Film Locations: The Most Filmed College Classroom Is Inside Columbia...
The exterior of Havemeyer Hall at Columbia University. Do you recognize it? If someone asked you to picture a college lecture hall, would the image you come up with look something like this? If so,...
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Film Locations: Where Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck Lived in Roman Holiday
Source: Wikimedia Commons Did you know that Roman Holiday, the 1953 film that launched Audrey Hepburn‘s career, was the first American movie to be shot entirely in Italy? In addition to Hepburn’s...
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Film Locations: Hector’s Diner in NYC, of Taxi Driver and Law & Order Fame
Hector’s Cafe & Diner located at 44 Little West 12th Street Look familiar? Hector’s Diner was where all the diner scenes for Taxi Driver starring Robert DeNiro were filmed and where many of the...
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Film Locations: LA’s Bradbury Building’s Sci-Fi History and More
Source: HistoricPlaces.net This is the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles. Do you recognize it? If not, take a look at its interior. Source: Wikimedia Commons A breathtaking staircase, isn’t it?...
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Featured App/Website: Cinemacity, Your Ultimate Guide to Paris Film Locations
All of Cinemacity’s film locations on one map, prior to filtering. Since the introduction of the motion picture as an artistic medium, Paris has been continually captured on film. Cinemacity, a new...
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Film Locations: Where Do Movies and TV Shows Film CIA Scenes?
Source: Wikimedia Commons Over a decade after 9/11, Americans are still eager to see anti-U.S. forces outsmarted by America’s finest at the Central Intelligence Agency. Just last year, films like Argo...
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La Vie en Rose: Finding Audrey Hepburn in Paris
Audrey Hepburn in Paris. Source: Bert Hardy, 1956 “Paris isn’t for changing planes,” Audrey Hepburn says to Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina, “it’s for changing your outlook! For throwing open the windows...
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Film Locations: Jewel Heists, Both Fictional and Real, at the Carlton Hotel...
Source: Tourmag.com Just two days ago, approximately $136 million worth of diamonds were stolen from the InterContinental Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France–one of Europe’s largest jewelry heists of...
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Film Locations: Regulating Pyrotechnic FX and Explosions in NYC and LA
An explosion from The Avengers, which filmed its scenes set on the streets of New York in Cleveland. Source: Storify With the rise of superhero movies and post-9/11 thrillers, explosions in action...
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Marseille’s Cinematic Landscapes: French Connection Film Locations Then & Now
William Friedkin’s 1971 thriller French Connection tells the story of bent cops ‘Popeye’ Doyle and Buddy ‘Cloudy’ Russo as they attempt to foil a large narcotics smuggling operation from Marseille,...
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Film Locations: Original Men in Black Preserves Images of NYC in the ’90s
Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and Agent J (Will Smith) walk out of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Ventilation Building that was filmed as the the Men in Black Headquarters Although Men in Black was released...
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Film Locations: Ghostbusters at NYPL, Columbia, Hook & Ladder Fire Station,...
Los Angeles Central Library shot as New York Public Library in original Ghostbusters (1984) film. Last week, news broke that The New York Public Library had finally caved in to public and critical...
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Film Locations: Boardwalk Empire Inside the Poppenhusen Institute in College...
The grand ballroom of the Poppenhusen Institute, missing the grand chandelier which hung from the center You may recognize the Poppenhusen Institute in College Point from scenes in the television...
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Film Locations: Kill Your Darlings at Columbia University
Kill Your Darlings, filming in front of Low Library at Columbia University. All images from ZhaoAngela via Flickr. Thinking of the Beat Generation, a few things come to mind: unreserved sexuality,...
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Film Locations: Law and Order SVU and Gone with the Wind at the French...
Detectives Benson and Stabler take a tour of the French Embassy. Image source: Netflix. You may have spent countless hours watching all fifteen glorious seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims...
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NYC Film Locations: The Godfather Part II, Crocodile Dundee at Vazac’s...
Five Corners, Angel Heart, and The Verdict, and the Sex and the City movie also filmed scenes in this establishment On the outside it looks like an ordinary bar, you would never guess it is place where...
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Film Locations: The Lost Weekend, Mad Men, and Annie Hall at P.J. Clarke’s in...
Buddy Holly proposed to his wife Maria Elena at P. J. Clarke’s. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons by Jazz Guy What New York City saloon brings together Buddy Holly, Woody Allen, Frank Sinatra, Dick...
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