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Filming San Diego:
Hollywood's Backlot 1898-2002
Special issue of the Journal of San Diego History, Spring 2002
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The film industry has used San Diego as its “backlot” since its inception. For over 100 years San Diego supplied the movies with western vistas, shorelines, military bases, parks, hotels, neighborhoods, actors and theaters. Over 700 theatrical films and television productions have been shot in the San Diego County, including Citizen Kane, Some Like It Hot, The Stunt Man and Top Gun.
During the silent era, San Diego was an important player in the presentation of westerns, melodramas and comedies to a nation hungry for the productions of an exciting and revolutionary industry. When Hollywood consolidated its hold on the industry, San Diego welcomed film productions interested in the military and thus played an important role in informing citizens about the advances or the stories of our Air Force, Marines and the Navy. In the last 20 years San Diego has become one of the nation’s most important alternative locations to Hollywood.
70 pages, softbound, $9.95.
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