Hey r/movies It's Harry Pallenberg producer of LOCATIONLAND a digital series where Locationologist Harry Medved explores the famous and forgotten filming locations across Southern California. He’ll be joined by filmmakers, personalities and scouts who put these sites on the map. 4pm EST
First 2 episodes are live at PBS SoCal YouTube.
“Grease Road Trip” – Grease Director Randal Kleiser joins Host Harry Medved on a road trip down memory lane, driving down the concretized L.A. River with recollections of filming the world’s greatest high school musical at Malibu’s Leo Carrillo State Beach and under the Sixth Street Bridge, where Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy cheered on John Travolta’s Danny in the climactic Thunder Road hot rod race. Link to episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aLpBO24qQw
“Behind The Hollywood Sign” – Directors Will Gluck and Joe Dante reveal secrets of their iconic location shoots at L.A.’s most famous movie landmark, while Host Harry Medved joins Hollywood Sign guide Diana Wright on the grounds of the legendary Los Angeles beacon. Here they recall the Hollywood Sign’s cinematic legacy, why it is always getting destroyed in the movies and debunk a myth almost as big as the sign itself. Built in 1923 originally as a real estate advertisement, the Hollywood Sign went on to become an international symbol of fame, fortune and the American dream.
Link to episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeHpsiSxFVs
Coming Soon: “Ed Wood’s Plan 9 Adventures” – Mon., Feb. 10 - Host Harry Medved and comedian/superfan Dana Gould visit the forgotten graveyard where cult movie director Ed Wood shot Bela Lugosi’s final movie scenes, later reappearing in Wood’s flying saucers & zombies epic, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Along the way, authors Katharine Coldiron and Bob Blackburnjoin the crew to unearth the private Hollywood studio for the 1950s Grade Z classic often considered “the worst movie ever made.”
