MISC> [NetGold] TOURISM AND TRAVEL : ENTERTAINMENT: CINEMA: Movie Tourism: Some Internet Sources

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:58:05 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] TOURISM AND TRAVEL : ENTERTAINMENT: CINEMA: Movie
     Tourism: Some Internet Sources

TOURISM AND TRAVEL : ENTERTAINMENT: CINEMA: Movie Tourism: Some Internet
Sources

Movie Tourism in the USA Midwest
<http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/articles/movies.htm>

"The Roseman Bridge Gift Shop in rural Madison County, Iowa, may well be
the busiest retail store in America located four miles from a paved road.
When Wyman Wilson moved on to the property in the 1970s, it was a
pleasant enough spot, largely because it abutted a nicely weathered
covered bridge where the local kids hung out.

Nobody would have predicted that 25 years later, the world would
literally be beating a path to Mr Wilson's door. But Robert James Waller
and Warner Brothers changed everything. Mr Waller, an Iowan, wrote a
romantic novel called "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995) based in
Winterset, a small town encircled by century-old covered bridges. Soon
after, Warner turned it into a movie with Clint Eastwood as Robert, a
wandering photographer, and Meryl Streep as Francesca, the farm woman he
falls in love with. For locations, the producers settled quickly on the
Northside Cafe on Courthouse Square and, from a helicopter, they spotted
the perfect farmhouse for Francesca. Bouncing uncomfortably down the
county's gravel roads they knew their search was over when they found the
Roseman Bridge.

As cameras rolled on his land, Mr Wilson saw his opportunity and took it:
he opened a small gift shop. His boss told him he might make enough to
quit in two years. Mr Wilson said his goodbyes within two weeks. He has
since expanded the business several times, serving thousands of
lovestruck visitors from America, Europe and Japan, many of them arriving
by bus on package tours amid clouds of authentic dust."

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Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations
<http://www.movie-locations.com/travel/travel_1.html>

YOU'VE SEEN THE FILM, NOW DO THE HOLIDAY...

"  "Tourists are flocking to movie locations. Madison County, Iowa, was
swamped with visitors after Clint Eastwood filmed The Bridges of Madison
County. Out of Africa is credited with bringing American tourists back
into Africa. And A River Runs Through It proved such a lure to visitors to
Livingston, Montana, that that a member of the local Chamber of Commerce
was moved to ask 'What's wrong, don't people like where they live?'".
The Daily Telegraph, March 1999

Time was when movies were an escape from the drudgery of everyday life.
Back before international travel came within reach of the masses, folks
oohed and aahed as the likes of Dorothy Lamour saronged slinkily in front
of a plaster 'South Seas' volcano and didn't care that it was all being
filmed on a Los Angeles soundstage. Now we don't escape in the movies, we
escape into the movies. We want real volcanoes, the real South Seas. And,
like Leonardo, we want to find the perfect beach.

Package holidays and resort hotels are over. It's theme holidays that get
us buzzing. And what could be a better holiday brochure than the movies?
To follow James Bond to the unreal luxury of Octopussy's 'floating palace'
(it's a hotel in Udaipur, India), or Captain Kirk to the arid wastes of
'Viridian 3' (the blazing red Valley of Fire, not far from Las Vegas) in
Star Trek: Generations."

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Our next stop will be Frodo's hut
Movie tourism has hit new heights, SIMON HOUPT
writes, with Tolkien fans flocking to New Zealand and
romantics taking over the cafe
where Meg and Tom tried not to fall in love
By SIMON HOUPT
Saturday, January 4, 2003  Print Edition, Page R7
<http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/
ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20030104/RVTRAV>

A shorter URL for the above article link:

<http://snipurl.com/3y6l>

It is a dark, enraged, oozing, open sore that bubbles away furiously, the
kind of place you wouldn't want to meet down a dark alley. But don't let
that stop you from snuggling up to the monstrous peak: The happy folk at
Tourism New Zealand are dedicating their lives to helping you experience
all things Lord of the Rings.

Since the November, 2001, release of the first film in the Tolkien
trilogy, tens of thousands of fans have made their way to the twin
antipodal islands to see the movie locales first-hand.

Movie tourism is perhaps as old as the movies themselves, but with the
recent phenomenon of individual films bestriding the globe, it has
intensified. After Titanic swept the world, tourists traveled to Halifax's
Fairview Lawn Cemetery to visit the graves of the victims of the disaster.
(For a time, a rumour spread that the character played by Leonardo
DiCaprio was buried there in an unmarked grave, until reason prevailed and
visitors remembered that DiCaprio's character was fictional.) But never
before has the entire citizenry of a country the size and population of
New Zealand so single-mindedly tied its fortunes to a movie.

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?Malta Movie Map? helps visitors follow in the footsteps of the Stars
<http://www.maltatourismauthority.com/uploads/929/625/MaltaMovieMapNewsletter.do
c>

Economic Impact of the Film Industry in North Carolina
<http://www.ncinformation.com/nc_movie_industry.htm>

Hollywood Flocks to the Mountains of Western North Carolina
<http://www.exploreasheville.com/hollywood.htm>

How to become an armchair polyglot: Philip Kerr on why watching foreign
films makes you feel superior. (Film).
New Statesman, Sept 23, 2002, by Philip Kerr
<http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0FQP/4606_131/92543672/p1/article.jhtml>

Keep in mind that movie tourism may cause visual difficulties as the movie
tourist may suffer from having a film before his eyes.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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