Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5638133)

Back to Miramar Street for a second--it looks like the Lewis house might have an interesting carriage house behind it...
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-q...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

Originally Posted by rick m (Post 5638181)

Say what !? The very top photo is a view towards the Larronde house on No.Hope-Bunker Hill-- Nicely including 2 of 3 apt houses immediately north of it as well.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5225556)

This reminds me of the EL in Chicago. I wonder if there was ever a proposal to build an elevated rail system in downtown Los Angeles?

Originally Posted by oceantracks (Post 5638113)

OK one final one for you guys....I've always read that the caves near the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers" were real...anyone ever go out there for any shots?

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 5638530)

Hey kids! Dig the first ten minutes of Key Witness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05wmHcnHKg

Where do y'all posit that opening scene was shot?

Originally Posted by kanhawk (Post 5638490)

According to several websites, the caves in Invasion of the Body Snatchers are the Bronson Caves in Griffith Park:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3448/3...c774efca6e.jpg
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by T Hoffarth, on Flickr
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2607/3...9593f900_b.jpg
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by T Hoffarth, on Flickr

Originally Posted by Kelton Verdugo (Post 5638272)

Been enjoying this fine thread for many months, my thanks to you posters for all of your great insights, stories and excellent detective work.

Today, I noticed there have been a few more old process projection plates made available for viewing at Archive. org

Hope this link works:

http://archive.org/details/56DF_40030-414_A_LA

If you look around, there are a couple other projection backgrounds, along with a nice 1935 aerial film view of Hollywood, and the Burbank Warner's studio.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5638621)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...2520AM.bmp.jpgyoutube.com





Hmmm very interesting footage... Jeffrey's Plymouth with the toilet seat on the trunk (not my name for Chrysler's version of a continental kit, but a good one)... the cast (Hunter's eyes, Pat Crowley, and badass Dennis Hopper... cute dog... odd characters like the old man, the pretty tramp, the guy in the t-shirt with the excellent guns.... I guess it's somewhere near Chavez Ravine, or in East L.A....


Edit: I went ahead and looked at all four parts of Key Witness... it's really pretty good...a great movie to see in between The Desperate Hours (1955) and Lady In a Cage (1964). The car chases are terrific--the Mercury full of punks pushing the Plymouth is harrowing...

As for the murder location--in part 4, it is mentioned in a courtroom scene as being "East L.A.", not that that means that's where the opening scenes were actually done. The suburban streetscapes of L.A. seemed at first to have been filmed in the Valley, but the only street sign I saw was "California Ave."--unless there's one in the Valley that doesn't turn up when googling, the only California Ave. I see is on the west side toward Venice. Not sure what the neighborhood is called, but the houses all look more or less interchangeable with Valley houses of the era. Anyway, I'm going overboard... but here are some more screenshots to tide you over until you watch the movie.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...extras1021.jpg
It looks like they used real East L.A. residents as the zip-lipped witnesses to murder...

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...2520AM.bmp.jpg
Near the chop shop...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...2520AM.bmp.jpg
Jeffrey's house...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...2520AM.bmp.jpg
Note the "toilet seat"...

And various location shots...
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H...2520AM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s...2520AM.bmp.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G...2520AM.bmp.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520AM.bmp.jpg

Originally Posted by Wenders (Post 5638868)

I lived in the area few years ago and learned from the locals that, yes, it's not only the IBS cave, but also the very same cave where original TV Batman exited from when leaving his, well, cave. To me, so far, this is just a rumor. Haven't seen it confirmed anywhere.

Edit: In a case somebody didn't already know, the cave runs thru the mountain. It's just a short run, perhaps 35ft. The tunnel is Y -shaped, if I remember correctly, so basically there's two backdoor exits. The cave opening seen in film/TV is not necessarily the "one."

There you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Canyon

Originally Posted by kanhawk (Post 5622807)

e_r, were those golf carts behind you used for riding around the studio lot?

Originally Posted by Kelton Verdugo (Post 5638272)

Been enjoying this fine thread for many months, my thanks to you posters for all of your great insights, stories and excellent detective work.

Today, I noticed there have been a few more old process projection plates made available for viewing at Archive. org

Hope this link works:

http://archive.org/details/56DF_40030-414_A_LA

If you look around, there are a couple other projection backgrounds, along with a nice 1935 aerial film view of Hollywood, and the Burbank Warner's studio.