Gump, Bricks, and Ball Turrets: Savannah Filming Locations / Reel History
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2022
- We celebrate our 100th video with a trip to Savannah, Georgia, to explore several filming sites and places with movie connections! They included Fort Pulaski ("The Conspirator"), the Mercer-Williams House ("Glory" and "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"), the American Prohibition Museum, the Georgia Railroad Museum, the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force ("Memphis Belle" and "Masters of the Air"), and Chippewa Square ("Forrest Gump"). Enjoy this fun exploration of a historic city's Hollywood ties!
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I was 100% inspired by @thehistoryunderground while editing this - Andy. Thanks for watching!
I'm sad to see you didnt speak to Mr Walter Meeks the third. co-owner of Mrtyle Grove/folly farms(Generals Daughter, Glory, recent nat turner film, and several others), who in addition to being a proprieter of a relevant film location, is well versed in history, appropriately as the former curator of the Fort Stewart Museum for the us army.
@@skeemnave4882, wish we had known about him.
Savannah is easily my favorite city.
Thank you for the tour, Jared! This was really fun!
The B-17 was a real treat, particularly since I just finished "LeMay," by Warren Kozak. Curtis LeMay was an avid fan of the Flying Fortress, claiming to know just about every nut and bolt on the plane. His fascination with mechanics and engineering, combined with a dearth of qualified maintainers in some of his postings, meant that he often ended up directing and participating in repairs to his squadron's aircraft.
This was a great video. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit.
I have only been to Savannah on two occasions. My parents and I spent a week in Hilton Head back in the Summer of 2005. We flew into the Savannah airport and then drove straight to HHI. A week later, we checked out of our condo, drove straight back to the Savannah Airport at around noon and stayed there until our flight home which was at 7 or 8 in the evening. Thanks Dad. My mom and I were not happy. I am just glad I had something to read that day. It was a brand new book that was just recently published that Summer. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Needless to say, that was a long day. Watching this video makes me wish we would have explored Savannah instead of sitting in the airport all day.
Glory is my favorite Civil War film. Edward Zwich really outdid himself with the most accurately depicted combat of the Civil War ever put to film and not to mention a great cast, sound editing and not to mention all the reenactors who helped make the film a success.
Hard to believe he filmed, edited, and released that movie in an 8 month time period!
I worked with one of the reactors once, he was an African-American, of course he was a member of the 54th,but he also had to play a confederate soldier to fill out the ranks (in the background).
At one time he was shooting at himself in the movie🤣
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Really?😲
How was it? Was it fun?
Have you reacted to Glory?
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It's one of my favorite films from the 80's and it was my first R-rated film that I was allowed to watch as a kid.
Love ya Jarod keep up the great work.
Oh hey! My home area. My family has been in Savannah since the mid 1700’s so this is cool. My great grandfather owned the local produce market downtown. There’s a ton of random movies that film in Savannah.
Side note my great uncle was one of the chief detectives on the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil case. Boy he tells some wild stories. Interviewing a voodoo priestess in Beaufort was a good one.
Great video, thanks for making and posting it! I was born and raised in Savannah and really appreciate what you've done in this and other videos!
Cockspur Island (where Ft. Pulaski is located), was also used in the Burt Reynolds movie "Gator" when Jerry Reed and his very tall henchman Bones (whose head and torso stick out of the sun roof of his car) drive across the bridge between the island and highway 80. And less than a mile away, the hwy. 80 bridge across Lazarreto Creek is show in the Sundance Channel show "Rectify" (season 3, episode 6 "The Source") when the main character and his mother take a road trip to Tybee Island. The surrounding wetlands and aerial shots of Tybee were also show in the Korean War movie "Devotion," which also had a scene in Savannah's Factor's Walk off River Street which doubled for a street cafe in Cannes, France.
"Gator" filmed scenes on Tybee near where the Pier is now, although the single story motel used is long gone. The then mayor of Savannah, John Rousakis, had a bit part as the manager of the motel where one room was blown up in a fake explosion. "Gator" also pretended to blow up the beach house of the end of the Chatham Ave. beach access road on the South end of the island. Nearby Stand Ave. homes across from the beach front parking lot are shown in the 1981 Italian "Jaws" rip-off movie "The Last Shark" starring Vic Morrow and James Franciscus. Gator and the Last Shark also shot some scenes along the Wilmington River on River Drive in Thunderbolt. The Miley Cryus movie shot extensively on Tybee, most notably for me in the parking lot of the lighthouse museum.
I meant to say the Miley Cryus movie "the last song." Also I've been corrected that the end scene of Gator was actually filmed on W. Bluff Drive in the Savannah suburb of Isle of Hope.
The 8th Air Force Museum is awesome! I'd recommend anyone going to Savannah to stop there. The first exit south of the airport in Pooler, GA.
Aloha! Mahalo for keeping history alive and entertaining. We need more teachers like you.
Thank You!
Wow and thanks guys! This video might be 15 minutes long, but it seemed like an hour, amazing work on editing and filming, so many content in as little as 15 minutes. One of my favorite videos so far, I mean I love the movie analysis, but there's nothing better than some field work 😍. Thanks a lot again.
Thanks a ton!
Very cool. My father was a radio operator in a B17, he new Morris code which was also very cool to me as a child. The name of his plain was the search-n Virgin. A cowgirl was painted on it. Anyway great video. 👍
Pretty awesome video
Glad you enjoyed it
Glad to see you guys in my neck of the woods. I'm from Darien where a few more scenes for Glory were shot, but went to college in Savannah. I can bet you a million dollars that we saw SCAD students in the video in the background, the artists of which some will go on to make more reel movies I'm sure. :)
I lived in Savannah in 1989 and can remember seeing the parts of the production while sitting at a friends house at SCAD. Also, I met Heather Locklear in one of the parks while she was in a break from filming Swamp Thing that summer. She was newly married to Tommy Lee.
I took this semester off and now I miss my studies
It is interesting that a Savannah, GA, home was the location for a party that would have taken place in Massachusetts. The plants outside the house would never have survived a Massachusetts winter.
Great tour of Savannah. Very impressed with the condition of the B-17 inside - it looks immaculate. I know when they restore aircraft like this they try their best to make it a 'museum quality' restoration so that it lasts longer than the original factory build - which was probably only expected to last a few months! Many thanks. Can't wait for your Christmas Special in August!
Just wait for our Fourth of July special next month!
Dang homie your spring break comes in November lol
It just takes me that long to edit his spring break lol - Andy
10:22 some years back a group of people(can't remember the name of them but they preserve historical aircraft) flew a B-17 and a B-25 into my local airport(the B-17 actually flew over my house). My parents and I went to the airport to look at them and we were allowed into the B-17 and even I'm a skinny guy I had to walk sideways through the bomb bay all I could think is how the crew members fit in that thing.
Also if I knew that they would like me ride in the B-17 I would've brought a sweater so that was a miss opportunity.