Seeing Stars: Where the Movies Were Shot (on Location)



PART  10

Filming locations of TV Shows,
Made-for-TV Movies & Music Videos.

On the show "BONES", the exterior shot above is often shown before they cut to a scene in
Bones' forensics lab. That Jeffersonian lab is supposed to be located in Washington DC,
but what you're looking at is actually the Exposition Park Rose Garden, in Los Angeles.

That's the same Exposition Park that is home to the L.A. Olympic Coliseum and the Sports Arena.

We're looking east in this shot, and the building in the background is the
Museum of Science & Industry (AKA the California Science Center).
at 700 State Drive, Los Angeles.

( If you turned around and looked west, across the rose garden, you would see
the Museum of Natural History, which has also appeared in a number of movies. )

The new Fox show "GLEE", takes place at the fictional 'McKinley High School', but in reality, the
pilot episode was filmed at two different Southern California high schools, about 30 miles apart.

The outdoor scenes (such as the football field, cheerleading practice, and parking lot scenes)
were filmed at Juan Cabrillo High School, at 2001 Santa Fe Ave, in Long Beach, CA.

The indoor scenes (such as the school hallways and the auditorium scenes) were filmed at
John Burroughs High, at 1920 W. Clark Ave, in Burbank, CA.

On the new ABC show, "EASTWICK", if you're curious about just where that cute, little
New England town is (the one you see when the show opens, with that little white church),
the answer is: several different places.

The establishing shot of that aerial fly-in (that you see above) was shot in Camden, Maine.
The little white church (seen in the middle of the photo above) is actually the
Chestnut Street Baptist Church, at 29 Chestnut St, in Camden, Maine.

Other exterior location shots were filmed at different spots around New England,
and are dropped in occasionally to give the illusion that Eastwick is located there.

But most of the actual filming on the ground is done on the back lot of Warner Bros Studio,
on their "Midwest Street" outdoor set, which just happens to have a little, white church
that looks a lot like the one in Camden. This same small town set was recently used
extensively as "Star's Hollow", the setting for "The Gilmore Girls", and in a zillion
other productions before that (including "The Music Man").

You can see this set, up close, when you take the studio tour
of the Warner Bros studio, at 3400 Riverside Drive, in Burbank, CA.

You can find the first two seasons' filming locations
for the HBO series "TRUE BLOOD" by clicking the image above.

You can find the first three seasons' filming locations
for the Showtime series "DEXTER" by clicking the image above.

             

* Locations marked by an asterisk (*) may be located in areas with high crime rates.
Exercise reasonable caution.