PBS SoCal has launched a brand new streaming sequence that film followers are certain to get pleasure from! It’s titled Locationland. It’s a street journey sequence that spotlights the secrets and techniques of iconic film and TV places.
It explores the tales behind Southern California’s most cinematic locations, and this primary episode focuses on the L.A. River. Different episodes will embrace the hidden historical past of the Hollywood Signal, and the graveyard from Plan 9 From Outer Area!
The descfiption of the primary episode reads: “Grease Director Randal Kleiser joins Host Harry Medved on a street journey down reminiscence lane, driving down the concretized L.A. River with recollections of filming the world’s biggest highschool musical at Malibu’s Leo Carrillo State Seaside and below the Sixth Road Bridge, the place Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy cheered on John Travolta’s Danny within the climactic Thunder Street scorching rod race.”
I’ve at all times loved visiting outdated movie places, so this can be a sequence that I do know I’m gonna love! This primary episode, which you’ll watch beneath, is nice, and I’m excited to see what else the inventive workforce had deliberate!
The checklist of friends featured within the sequence embrace filmmakers Joe Dante (Gremlins, Trailers from Hell creator), Will Gluck (Mates with Advantages, Anybody However You, Straightforward A) and Randal Kleiser (Grease, The Blue Lagoon), comic Dana Gould (Seinfeld, The Simpsons), plus location managers, scouts and superfans who actually put these websites on the map.
The present will even take a look at the affect that movie and TV have had on the native communities and “Set-Jetting” as a brand new type of film tourism.