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evans city cemetery
from night of the living dead (1968) posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The opening scenes in the graveyard at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead, the George A. Romero classic that kicked off the zombie craze that we're still suffering through nearly fifty years later, were filmed at Evans City Cemetery thirty miles north of Pittsburgh.
Every October since 2008 Evans City has hosted The Living Dead Fest featuring a tour of filming locations followed by an outdoor screening of Night of the Living Dead in EDCO Park.
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from r.i.p.d. (2013) posted in movies by crabapple
Normally Sulgrave News, this convenience shop was dressed as a VCR repair shop for the cartoonish film R.I.P.D.
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from diablo cody, juno posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Diablo Cody reportedly wrote the award-winning screenplay for Juno over the course of several weeks while on her laptop at the fertile land of imagination that is the Starbucks in this Target in Crystal, MN.
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from gattaca posted in movies by pete_nice
The exterior of Vincent Freeman's house in the 1997 film Gattaca is the CLA Building on the Cal Poly Pomona campus.
The building was designed by Antoine Predock in the Futurist style and completed in 1993. Due to recent structural flaws surfacing, as well as the placement of the building on an active fault line, the building is scheduled for demolition.
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from gattaca posted in movies by pete_nice
This solar thermal plant uses parabolic troughs to generate heat, then steam, then power.
It was featured in the 1997 film Gattaca when Uma Therman and Ethan Hawke have a wildly romantic night out together and end up at a 150-megawatt solar power plant that can generate about 354 megawatts at peak output. Hot stuff.
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