TV Towns is the first book devoted to the fictional locales we have known and grown to love on television. This entertaining book offers profiles of more than twenty towns from classic TV shows, cult shows, soap operas, and current programs: Bay City (Another World); Cabot Cove, Maine (Murder, She Wrote); Hooterville (Petticoat Junction); Norwich, ...
A unique travel guide and trivia treasury that answers the questions of TV viewers about locales and residences. Is there really a "Gilligan's Island?" How do you get to the diner from "Seinfeld?" Where in Boston is the "Cheers" bar? This volume covers four decades of American TV.
This is a photographic guide to 382 sites in and around Los Angeles that have been used in film and television. Some are well known (Mann's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Zoo); others are obscure (such as the Hollywood Hills house used in Double Indemnity, the garden from Noah's Ark). The sites are grouped geographically, and ...
As he is walking home from the park, the Phillie Phanatic stumbles upon a mysterious glowing object that had fallen from the sky. When he reaches down to touch it - ZAP! - he is transformed into the world's newest super hero - SUPER PHANATIC! Miraculously, Super Phanatic gains the strength of thousands, he can now fly like a bird and can leap tall ...
From Metropolis, Illinois, to the real "little house on the prairie" to the Twin Peaks murder scene, here are more than two dozen sites where television series were actually filmed and which today have visitor centers and tourist amusements. Includes six easy-to-read, archival maps. 65 illustrations.
A guide to the locations of television's most popular shows. With photographs and maps of each location, this guide book gives exact details of all the places the reader has seen so many times on television. Locations include those for "The Bill", "Last of the Summer Wine", and "Ballykissangel".
It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television series filming sites are, however, located all over the United States. This guidebook documents over 1500 locations where 1,106 movies and 48 television series have been filmed. Arranged by state and then alphabetically by movie title, ...
New Zealand is becoming an ever more popular location for filmmakers from around the globe. White Cloud, Silver Screen is a major new scenic book about the country that became Middle Earth. All of the locations in the book have a connection with a film or television series, and while the beautiful South Island locations seen in The Lord of the ...
Formerly "The Director's Handbook", this reference is for anyone involved in location shooting for television, setting out the organizational and legal pitfalls which programme-makers are likely to encounter.
Discover what makes an excellent location, how to manage the location and how to handle any problems that might come up. This book provides an in-depth, practical look at location scouting and management. Written with many years of scouting experience in mind, the author has imparted much professional 'savvy' that beginning or experienced scouts ...
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