The Locations Revealed! 1,500+ Movie Location, TV Location and Music Video Filming Location Photos

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Don't be scared off by the fact that this is a music video made by a punk rock band - because this song is anything BUT punk rock. A harpsichord features prominently in the song - perhaps the ONLY time you'll find any rock band using this instrument. The setting evokes a 1920s international elegance and the band is all dressed up in tuxedos!

This music video was filmed at Leighton House in London, England. Many of you will notice that this is the same location used for the music video for Spandau Ballet's song "Gold" (1983). You can see the filming location then and now video for that song in the Music Video Filming Locations Videos section of the site by clicking here and scrolling down the page.

Jackie has affections for Mary Ann, but she's not interested. And further complicating matters - Donald Haines is also interested in Mary Ann. She suggests that the two of them duel it out with real swords and the winner gets to be her boyfriend.

This is one of the early "talking" / sound movies in The Little Rascals series. When this movie was being made in late 1929, many of the other movies of the time were being made inside sound stages at the studios because film crews had not yet become comfortable with filming outdoors on location. 

This Little Rascals movie on the other hand is MOSTLY filmed outdoors, on location in the Palms neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles. Clearly the team at the Hal Roach Studios mastered the new sound equipment much more quickly than other studios and because of that, they managed to create a fascinating time capsule of the area prior to the massive development that we see there today.

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This Laurel and Hardy movie is set during World War I. Army recruiters are scouring the city park looking for able bodied men to enlist. Laurel and Hardy, enjoying the sunny afternoon sitting on a park bench, are spotted and after trying (unsuccessfully) to evade the recruiter, they end up in the Army on the front lines. 

The recruiter scene in the park is the focus of this Laurel and Hardy movie location then and now quick preview video. The scene was actually shot at TWO parks, starting at Palisades Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica with the rest of the scene filmed at the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills. Charlie Chaplin used this same location in his movie "The Idle Class" (1921) which you can find in the Buster Keaton / Harold Lloyd / Charlie Chaplin Movie Locations Videos section of the site by clicking here and scrolling down the page. As you'll see, each of the filming locations are easily recognizable today.

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Wedding bells are ringing for Charley Chase, however a jealous friend tells Charley that his bride-to-be has a wooden leg!

A frequent filming location used by Charley Chase (as well as Laurel and Hardy and even Charlie's Angels in the 1970s) was The Culver Hotel in downtown Culver City, California. This filming location then and now quick preview video gives us some nice views of the Culver Blvd side of the hotel. Fortunately, the hotel still stands today (beautifully restored) as you'll see in this then and now movie location video.

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Punk rock band The Stranglers came up with a most UN-punk song in "Golden Brown" which prominently features a harpsichord!

For the music video, Leighton House in London was chosen as the filming location, and more specifically the Arab Hall (read more about this remarkable room by clicking here). The music video cuts between footage shot at Leighton House and stock footage filmed in Egypt and the Middle East. 

When this music video was released in 1982, another English band - Spandau Ballet - likely took notice and used the Arab Hall at Leighton House as the filming location for the music video for their song "Gold" in 1983. You can view the filming locations video documentary for "Gold" in the Music Video Filming Locations Videos section of the site by clicking here. The then and now filming location photo gallery for "Gold" is in the Music Video Filming Locations Photo Galleries section of the site. Click here and scroll down the page to view them.

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The Little Rascals movie The First Seven Years is another of the early "talkie" films in the series, with most of the movie filmed outdoors. This time, the filming location was the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles. 

Back in 1930 when this movie was made, the Palms had a very small town look about it. Single family homes with beautiful lawns lined the tree-lined streets. Then, in the 1950s, the City of Los Angeles rezoned the Palms neighborhood for "multi-family units" which meant that one by one, the beautiful homes dating back to the early 1900s were demolished and in their place, architecturally uninspiring apartment buildings took their place. 

The then and now filming location photo above shows Mary Ann on the front lawn of 3415 Mentone Avenue. Today, the lawn has been paved over as part of the parking lot for the apartment building (built in 1968) that now occupies the site. The tree seen in this movie was cut down in the 1970s. The small patch of grass visible near the center of the photo is where the tree used to stand.

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This Laurel and Hardy movie location is the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills. 

The park was a popular filming location in the silent movie era and also appeared in TV series and contemporary films like 2016's La La Land (which will be covered here on the site in the future). Charlie Chaplin's 1921 movie The Idle Class filmed here - you can see it in the then and now documentary video for this film in the Buster Keaton / Harold Lloyd / Charlie Chaplin Movie Locations Videos section of the site by clicking here. 

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Charley Chase starred in a very popular series of short comedy films in the 1920s and 1930s, many of them filmed in the downtown core of Culver City, California.

In this filming location then and now scene from the movie, the camera is on the Culver Blvd side of the historic Culver Hotel, looking west. The hotel - which is now over 100 years old - has been beautifully restored and is exactly as it was when this movie was filmed in 1925. 

What isn't the same is Culver Blvd. In the top photo, the poles visible held the wires used by the Pacific Electric Railway which at the time ran right down the middle of Culver Blvd. In those days,  Culver City residents could hop on a train to the beach or east to downtown Los Angeles. 

Unfortunately, the network of Pacific Electric Railway lines were abandoned in the 1950s. The tracks running down the middle of Culver Blvd were still in place (though mostly covered over by asphalt) as late as the 1980s. We catch a glimpse of them in the 1977 episode Moving Violation of the TV series CHiPs which you can see on Page 2 of the TV Series Filming Locations Photo Galleries by clicking here.

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