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In 1800, President of Yale University Timothy Dwight IV was traveling in Massachusetts when he noticed the abundance of small simple cottage structures along the coast line of Cape Cod. He was thus the first to call them after their namesake location and to build into the American vernacular that quintessential image of our residential identity.
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classic bed and breakfast and traditional hotels. A common misconception is that if a hotel offers breakfast, that may as well categorize it as a bed and breakfast lodge. Let’s drill down the most significant differences between these two types of stays.
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Who is shooting, what and when? We add notifications weekly on production projects. All types of location rentals by owners are scouted by production personnel. Homes of all types and condition. Businesses, mansions, abandoned and vacant buildings, warehouses and much, much more are needed to shoot scenes for film, television and photography. To get an idea of what types of locations are used when filming you can watch any movie and note each and every location backdrop used. Often times there are hundreds of locations used in just one film project.
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What if you had a castle or estate and a film company wanted to do a movie about Catherine The
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The Many Uses of Steel in the Movie Industry Yes, you need great acting; yes, you need the artistic vision
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The two worlds of Director Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley feel at times like textural contrasts. “It was almost like working on two films,” according to Tamara Deverell, the film’s production designer, “from the carny world where everything had a faded patina and was a little rough around the edges … to high society, where we wanted everything to be really rich and sumptuous and enticing.”
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Despite the patience required, many film and television directors choose to work with animals on set. Their cuteness and ability to touch the heartstrings of an audience make animals the perfect casting choice for many parts!
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Ever thought of calling your new dog Rover? Probably not, but there’s a reason why people reach for that name as stereotypically canine, and there was a time when Rover boomed as a popular dog name. In 1905, British director Cecil Hepworth released a silent film called Rescued by Rover starring, you guessed it, his family dog (who was really named Blair). Ever since, dogs have been upstaging their human counterparts and have become a mainstay of feature films and TV. In fact, a cottage industry has been built around canine stars, including trainers, agents, a version of the Oscars called the Pawscars, and even book deals, such as the recently released Citizen Canine: Dogs in Movies by Wendy Mitchell.
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Film Location Wanted. Whether you’re a fan of the Mortal Combat video game series that was created by Midway and is now offering Mortal Kombat 11 or you followed the original film series first released in 1995.
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Constructing Houses for a Film Set. If you’re a fan of Harry Potter films, you probably have a feeling for the grand sense of scale that set designers must deal with. From the daunting magical haunts of Hogwarts Castle to the mundane abode of the Dursleys on Privet Drive, everything had to be built in exquisite detail. Just not maybe as you thought.
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