White Town - Your Woman (Music Video) 1997
White Town - Your Woman (Music Video) 1997
White Town - Your Woman (Music Video) 1997
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White Town's Your Woman Music Video: A Rare Look At 1997 Derby, England
In 1997, the infectious synth-pop track Your Woman by White Town raced up the music charts worldwide, hitting number one in the UK and becoming an international sensation. Remarkably, the brilliant track was entirely written, produced, and performed by Jyoti Mishra, who is White Town. Operating as a true one-man band, Mishra created an enduring indie-pop masterpiece from his home studio.
Beyond the song's unique sound, the accompanying visuals provided an unforgettable, stylized time capsule of a historic English city.
The Your Woman Music Video: Capturing Derby on Film
For the Your Woman music video, Jyoti Mishra and director Mark Adcock opted for a highly stylized, 1920s silent movie aesthetic. Complete with a black-and-white presentation, vintage title cards, and expressive acting by Chloe Treend, the video perfectly complemented the track's iconic 1930s Al Bowlly horn sample.
Filmed over a single weekend on a lean budget, the production used the streets of Derby, England as its set. The result is a stunning visual record of the East Midlands city as it looked in the late 1990s. Today, most of these outdoor backdrops remain standing and are virtually unchanged, making the city a prime destination for music video history enthusiasts.
Then and Now: The Famous Derby Ram Statue Filming Location
The then and now filming location comparison photo above highlights one of the video's most recognizable backdrops: The famous Derby Ram statue.
- The Location: Positioned prominently at the bustling pedestrian junction of Albion Street and East Street in the heart of the city center.
- The History: Commissioned as a gift to the city, this massive stone sculpture was created by artist Michael Pegler and unveiled in 1995—just two years before White Town immortalized it on film.
For music fans, urban explorers, or anyone planning a sightseeing trip to Derbyshire, tracking down this vibrant intersection is one of the ultimate must-visit things to do in the city.
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Charley Chase - Innocent Husbands (1925)
White Town - Your Woman (Music Video) 1997
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The Culver Hotel - A Southern California Landmark
The historic Culver Hotel in downtown Culver City has stood for over 100 years as a prominent local landmark. Built by the city's founder Harry Culver in 1924, the hotel has been a witness to the rise and fall and subsequent renewal
of the area through the decades:
- 1920s: The earliest years of Culver City and construction of the many shops lining Main Street and still standing today.
- 1930s and 1940s: Culver City is still bustling thanks to the several movie studios in town providing jobs for many of the town's citizens.
- 1950s: Postwar prosperity comes to Culver City.
- 1960s - 2000s: Economic decline as other parts of the Los Angeles area prove to be more attractive places to shop and live.
- 2010s: Culver City makes a big comeback spurred by demand for studio and office space from Amazon Studios and Apple. The opening of the light-rail Expo Line and development around the station just 2 blocks from the hotel brings in thousands of new workers and residents. The Culver Hotel undergoes a multi-million dollar restoration and renovation. The Culver Steps development opens in 2019.
The Culver Hotel As Filming Location
Since the time the Culver Hotel was under construction in 1923, it has appeared in movies (and later TV show episodes) as either a "background player" (see the 1926 Glenn Tryon movie 45 Minutes From Hollywood) or as an integral part of the plot (see the 1986 TV episode Hunter - Scrap Metal - Part 3).
Charley Chase And The Culver Hotel
Chase used the hotel as a backdrop in several of his films, most notably his 1928 classic Limousine Love and this film, Innocent Husbands.
In the then and now filming location photo comparison above, Charley is on the Culver Blvd side of the hotel, near today's main entrance to the building.
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Cannon - Dead Pigeon (1971)
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The Historic Santa Monica Pier
Originally built as a support structure for a pipe that discharged raw sewage into the ocean, the Santa Monica Pier officially opened in 1909. In 1915, local residents petitioned the city to expand the pier to allow for an amusement park to be built on it, thus offering competition to the other piers just to the south and a year later, the pier was officially dedicated as an amusement pier.
Through the decades the pier has gone through cycles of varying public interest in amusement attractions, major reconstruction due to deterioration of the original steel pilings and a powerful storm in 1983 that destroyed the entire western third of the structure.
The Pier As A Filming Location
The amusement piers around Southern California have always been a draw for on location filming. The famous Abbot Kinney Amusement Pier in Venice was often used, appearing in early comedies by Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang / The Little Rascals. It likely would have still been used as a filming location these days had it not burned down in 1946!
Fortunately, the Santa Monica pier has survived the decades and has been a consistently used filming location. Because of this, there is a valuable photographic record of the pier as it has gone through changes over time.
Here's just a few of the productions that filmed at the pier:
- A 1965 episode of the TV series The Fugitive, Brass Ring, featured the pier in the opening credits where actor Christopher Riordan appears as a sailor walking on the pier with his date.
- The carousel scenes from the 1973 movie The Sting
- Opening credits for the 1970s TV series Three's Company
- The music video for the Tiffany song All This Time (1988)
- A 1996 episode of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager - Future's End
The Santa Monica Pier In Cannon: Then and Now
In the then and now filming location photo featured above, we get a great view of the pier, looking east towards the mainland. Many of the buildings lining the south side of the pier have either been remodeled or replaced since Cannon filmed here in 1971.
And, the most striking change is the removal of the extension of Colorado Avenue onto the pier and the conversion to "pedestrians only" use.
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Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Old Walllop (1927)
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Downtown Los Angeles In 1927
The Our Gang / The Little Rascals series filmed quite a bit on location, especially during the 1920s and early 1930s. A constant for the series was the choice of filming locations: usually the Palms neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, and those locations are fully covered here on the website.
But for The Old Wallop, the script called for the Gang to end up on an under-construction skyscraper, high above city streets, so the natural choice of filming location was Downtown Los Angeles.
Borrowing a page from Harold Lloyd's playbook, the film crew built a few girders on the roof of the building located at 939 South Broadway and by the use of clever camera-work, created the illusion of the Gang high above the city streets.
The Laurel and Hardy Filming Location Connection
Laurel and Hardy's 1929 silent movie Liberty is famous for it's ending scenes that have Stan and Ollie high above the city streets on a skyscraper under construction. Sound familiar?
Those scenes in Liberty were filmed the exact same way, on the exact same roof at 939 South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. But, Our Gang / The Little Rascals did it BEFORE Laurel and Hardy!
In the then and now filming location photo above, we see Farina dangling high above the city, and the building in the background is 1023 South Broadway. Both buildings are still standing today and a great stop on any tour of Los Angeles filming locations.
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Laurel and Hardy - Helpmates (1932)
Laurel and Hardy - Helpmates (1932)
Laurel and Hardy - Helpmates (1932)
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A Quiet Culver City Neighborhood
Helpmates consistently ranks as a Laurel and Hardy fan favorite. Aside from a few very brief appearances by some other actors, the film is mainly Stan and Ollie getting into all kinds of trouble. Or, to state it more accurately, Stan causing trouble for Ollie.
The final scene in the movie has Mr. Hardy returning to his home, only to find it a smoldering ruin. Hoping to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Hardy home with a cozy fire, Mr. Laurel inadvertently burned down the house!
What makes this scene so convincing is the fact that it was filmed adjacent to a real residential neighborhood. All the other homes visible in the scene are real houses and you can imagine how amusing it must have been for the neighborhood residents to be able to watch Laurel and Hardy film these scenes.
A Popular Filming Location
The filming location for this scene is the neighborhood that was immediately adjacent to the southern property line of the Hal Roach Studios (the producer of the film). The film crew built the burned down house set on a vacant part of the studio property, right next to 8885 Carson Street in Culver City.
This part of Carson Street was a popular filming location for Hal Roach Studios movies, and we get to see some amazing footage of the neighborhood as it was being built in these two films:
In the filming locations then and now photo comparison above, we see Stan leaving Mr. Hardy's house. The house across the street is 8880 Carson Street. The original home is still there, however at some point, a large addition was built and that's what we see today in the "now" photo.
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The Taxi Boys - Taxi Barons (1933)
Laurel and Hardy - Helpmates (1932)
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A Very Popular Filming Location
Main Street in Culver City, California might just be ranked as the most popular filming location of all time. Since the early 1920s, it has appeared in dozens and dozens of movies and TV episodes.
Here's just a few of those that appear here on the site:
- Glenn Tryon - 45 Minutes From Hollywood (1926)
- Laurel and Hardy - Putting Pants On Philip (1927)
- Max Davidson - Dumb Daddies (1928)
- Nat Carr - Traffic Tangle (1930)
- Charlie's Angels - Angels On The Street (1979)
- Hunter - Scrap Metal - Part 3 (1986)
A Century Of NO Change
The Los Angeles area has experienced constant change over the past 150 years. Farmland and orchards gave way to single family homes. Small neighborhoods and towns (including Culver City) sprouted up around the vast Pacific Electric Railway passenger train lines in the early 1900s. The single family homes gave way to larger apartment buildings and streets lined with small buildings housing shops were replaced with larger, "big box" stores in the middle and late 20th century.
However, one pocket of the Los Angeles area, Downtown Culver City and specifically Main Street between Culver and Venice Boulevards has remained exactly the same for over a century.
Every building on Main Street seen in these films from the 1920s and 1930s is still standing today. The only difference being the change from diagonal parking to parallel parking and the beautiful trees now lining both sides of the street.
The filming location then and now comparison photo above from Taxi Barons is a great illustration of how this small block in Culver City has managed to stay almost frozen in time.
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