The Blues Brothers (1980) Filming Locations
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2024
- All the filming locations from the 1980 comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Original research and additional photography by Chas Demster at www.itsfilmedthere.com. Photos of Dixie Square Mall by jonrevProjects at www.jonrev.com.
This was THE BEST Blues Brothers then and now video EVER!!! Bravo!!!! I watched this over three times in a row. WOW!
What shit 3 times in a row 😮 no life😂 what u watched next
agree. Excellent
Especial thanks for not ruining it with some jive ass AI narration.
The comparison sequence of the speeding POV under the elevated train is *chef’s kiss*.
This was the BEST Blue’s Brothers filming location video I’ve ever seen! Absolutely the best! Very well done! Excellent!!!!
If anyone ever wants to do a film like this for other movies - they should start by watching this one because this is the gold standard. This is beyond fantastic - everything from the lack of voice over to appropriate music in the background to some unbelievable camera work and editing.
Bravo…this was really well done
Very, very, VERY impressive work! I'm not easily impressed. This wowed me. Thank you.
Gotta give mad props, this was a well-made video of before/after!
wow, just wow. This person is the BEST at Filming locations. Thank you soo very much. Regards from Australia.
Grew up in Chicago and worked in the film industry. Crazy how much the city and industry here has changed
I was coming here to praise the work taken to get this right and I'll be drowned out by all of the other comments of praise. Excellent job team!
Outstanding, SO much effort to recreate the right angles, even down to the panning shots. Bravo.
As a former tour guide in Chicago, and having visited a number of these sites, extraordinarily well done.
What makes this film special is that it approaches geographical sense. They were from Calumet City, they open with steel mills, the bridge they jump was over the Calumet river. Their destination was the County assessor's, and they filmed in the real Cook County/City Hall building.
Fun facts:The exterior of the orphanage was the Schoenhoffer brewery from late 1800's.
South Shore Club (Palace Hotel exterior) was where the Obama's held their wedding.
All the shots under the El tracks, cosmetic differences aside, are structurally the same. And the home in Cicero, the young tree behind their car has fully grown.
Great!!
Thank you 😊
✌️💚🙏🇬🇧
Absolutely wonderful! I paused it 50 times to study the pictures.
(I'm a Chicagoan and never knew where those Milwaukee shots came from.)
I've never seen a more comprehensive and entertaining then and now video. This thing deserves an award or something. Brilliant.
That's a movie classic that even had a cocaine budget (serious google on it).
Some locations looks even more worse then before, others barley changed. Thank you for making this.
Sincerely to Everyone involved in the research and accuracy of the filming locations. Superb ❤ Bravo.
This is the best video of its kind. Congratulations on a major piece of work.
Great job! No talking! Just great shots of from the same angles as what was in the movie! What a trip down memory lane!
We lost alot of poeple in this one,by far the best filming location for the BB yet,great job!!
This was outstanding.
Somewhere I have a picture my dad got of the inside of the warehouse where all the old city of chicago police cars were parked before shooting the movie. There was of course a scandal around using the old cars and a deal being made for brand new replacement cars. Also the tanks in Daley plaza did major damage to the granite and there was a hubbabaloo about replacing them.
Loved the video!!!
AWSOME ,,GREAT JOB... CANT STOP LAUGHING ... THX.
Well there will never be a need for another “then and now” Blues Brothers video because you can’t top this! Very well done!
Awesome!, I know you put a lot of time and work into this!, BB is one of my favorite Movies!, Thank You!!
THE BEST VERSION OF BLUES BROTHERS FILMING. LOCATIONS VLOG VIDEO I'VE EVER SEEN. 100% AUTHENTIC THERE SHOULD BE A GOLDEN OSCAR AWARDED FOR THIS ONE!
I did my own Blues Brothers filming location tour of Chicago when I visited in 2022 and it’s so cool to see that I was right about a couple of locations in the Chicago CBD that are very different now…but you can see certain landmarks that confirm them. This video was awesome because I got to see what happened to many other sites like the shopping mall.
Thanks for a great video…totally enjoyed it.
Superb filming in the double shots!
This is incredible. I’m in awe of the amount of work it must have taken to produce this. Awesome the way you matched shots right down to the synchronized camera movements.
So good. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Amazing job.
Thanks, Sean.
I like the fact that they filmed those police chase scenes through the City streets with real high speed, without any effects that look like they going fast!
Thank you very much. Its awesome but sad to see these type of videos. So much of our past is just torn down and thrown away or destroyed. Saw one video of Fast Times at Ridgemont high, so many of the scenes in places like the hospital and the gas station have been torn down.
This is a well-produced video! I like the music with the natural sound from the scenes underneath.
Most of the locations look nicer now than back then with the exception of the park, someone get busy with a weedeater already.
It's a shame they tore down the building that was Ray's Music Emporium. It was on my bucket list of places to visit and get a pic.
This is next level stuff. Please keep it up. Absolutely brilliant. Look forward to more.
The editing and the attention to details with almost all the angles was fantastic!
From someone who used to have to go to Chicago regularly, and a huge fan of the Blues Brothers, this was a joy to watch, I had a smile from ear to ear the entire time!
Fantastic to see the then and now. Great job! And kudos for the background music. 😜
Top 5 movie. Living in Chicago my entire life. This is by g=far the best Filming Locations video for the Blues Brothers i've seen. The car chase stuff being in Milwaukee blew my mind a bit. My dad said it was Chicago off some new construction on 90/94. Anyway this was perfect, to bad you couldn't use the music but you nailed it.
what a joy to see these places today.
thank you for your time putting this together,
we all appreciate your work 🙂
What incredible research.
I love filming location videos but you nail it wit the side by side or top and bottom real time comparisons
Great job. A favorite movie of mine. I enjoyed the music as well.
Love the shot-for-shot split screen. Outstanding job.
Best filming location videos I've seen yet. The split screen was done brilliantly.
Awesome video. The Blue Brothers is one of my favorite movies.
Praise be! Beautiful! Couldn’t keep my eyes off it and so happy to see much of the locations are still standing
Phenomenal video!!! As a Chicago resident, I’m very familiar with many of these locations, particularly the bridge, the church, and the cultural center.
A couple sites from The Fugitive are on the South Side too. The brief scene of the thrift store was on south Commercial, and the small basement apartment Dr. Kimble rented from the Polish lady was at 90th and Houston. The "prison" was actually Ariel Academy in Hyde Park. And the scene where Tommy Lee Jones shot the other fugitive that escaped the train wreck was somewhere on south Green Bay, although those 2-flats are all gone now.
Brilliant! Have shared to many people who, like me think this is one of the best films ever.
So well done, perfect alignment, shot for shot. Nice quirky jazzy music, no any annoying narration, as the captions were enough. Great vid!! LOTS OF PRAISE!! 👍🏻
Amazing video but there is one minor correction. 22:16 the police car flying into a truck scene was filmed on what was then the unused stub of IL-53 north of IL-68 (Dundee Road). I was there when they filmed it. Since then the expressway was extended north a mile to end at Lake Cook Road.
17:21 you mean
This video is absolutely brilliant. The best Blues Brothers ‘now and then’ I’ve ever seen. Unbelievable 👏🏼 thanks for sharing 😎
Great video! A lot of work to recreate one of the best comedies / music flics of all time! Thank you very much!
That was absolutely fantastic, well done everyone involved!
Very well done. Spot on Camera work.
That shot of the Blues Mobile flipping in the air with a current shot of the sky was brilliant!! 🤣
Superb video. Excellent attention to detail. Thank you. Cool music, too.
Regards from a Blues Brothers fan in England.
That was an excellent video. By far the best filming location video I have ever seen. Well done.
Incredible! The best then and now match up video I've ever seen
I was born in Ohio but my family moved to Colorado when I was very young. This was always our movie. I probably saw it for the first time when I was 4 (1984) on one of our drives back to Ohio we drove lower Wacker Dr. And found the bridge they jumped. It was down but I have picture of me jumping the split. I was probably ten. Great job on this.
You guys drove from downtown Chicago fifteen miles through the ghetto to the far South Side (95th Street)?
Exceptional work, well done
The best "filming locations" video ever! So well produced and filmed; the then-and-now shot of the red car float-falling from the Chicago sky is beautiful!
This is fantastic! Thank you for putting all this together for us. Amazing what's changed and what hasn't.
I enjoyed every minute of watching that
Dude, when I saw 'filming locations' I wasnt expecting literally scene by scene! 😂 Great work, I cant imagine the hours that went into this 👏
Fantastic isn't high praise enough. This was incredibly well done with the camera angles. I applaud you for all the extra effort to not just show the places but to do your best to simulate the angles.
Wow, nicely done. One of my favorite movies of all time.
This video was very informative. A lot of these scenes were filmed within feet of scenes from child's Play and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Batman Dark Knight. I was born & raised in Chicago. I love movies, especially those filmed in Chicago. Thank you for the video! I will show this video to my friends. They will not believe it!!!
Me too! The Fugitive, The Untouchables, Above the Law, Code of Silence, Running Scared, Stony Island (Andrew Davis' first film).... and all the John Hughes movies filmed in the north suburbs....
Right down to the exact framing of shots. Well done.
I grew up in South Chicago. My grandfather, 2 uncles and a couple cousins worked at the South Works of US Steel. I crossed over the 95th St bridge over the Calumet River uncountable times going to my best friends, girl friends and relatives who lived on the East Side. Bought enough fish from Calumet Fishery to feed the 5000!
I grew up in Hegewisch. I used to take 41 home from downtown when the Ryan was jammed up. Down Commercial Ave (past the thrift store from The Fugitive) and then left over the bridge to Ewing. The Baptist church is right there at 91st and Burley. (the apartment Dr. Richard Kimble rented from the Polish lady is nearby too at 90th and Houston)
I don’t think it can be overstated how incredible this is.
20:25 I have to point out how funny it is they put a revolving door where the easily block-able doors were! I find that very funny for some reason.
Those brass doors were actually fake breakable doors installed by the crew. Afterwards, they put the old glass revolving doors back in.
AMAZING!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏
You did a great job. Congratulations. Fun video to watch.
This film is my absolutel fave of all time. John was my idol. Thanks for this video. I was actually in Chicago last month for first time. Got to see a few locations :)
Excellent job!
Impressive. Kudos to all involved.amazing work!
I have seen a bunch of your vids because they are awesome. This is the best one I have seen yet. Amazing detail! It's so amazing to see how things have changed and so heart warming to see the things that haven't. 🎉🎉🎉
Fantastic as always. You are the best.
Excellent job matching the original shots. I loved this entire video!
You really nailed the matching shots on this one, well done!
Just fantastic, knew most of these locations but still learned a lot. Well done.
The amount of detail is amazing! This is a lot of work, and very well done! Subscribing!
Loving these. I have some buddies who are really gonna enjoy this
You filming location videos are in a league of their own! As always: Amazing!
Very Well shot. Great Work!! Thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
This is good. Looks like a lot of work went into getting the exact camera location; makes it easy to see where the shots were made and the difference over time. thanks.
Really well done, thank you!
Exceptional work
Love this!
This is insanely good! Top notch! Perfect.
My favourite film. I did my own personal Blues Bothers locations tour in 2023
I remember watching a video over 10 years ago of someone visiting the Dixie Square Mall, some of the tire tracks lefts under the rubble might have been from that chase scene! Loved that scene as a kid and still do❤
I would comment on how amazing this was but everyone is doing that ..what I noticed is how much better everything looked back then ,granted they lit things it was a movie set but you can tell things have changed drastically ..does anyone else want to go back in time? Lol great job with the angles I am a DP for movies and was impressed at how accurate you were ..
Amazing job!
Great job on this!
Excellent work on this.
I used to go to Phil’s Beach as a teen and I’ve lost skin on that slide.
Great Job! Amazing research!
You guys outdid yourself on this one… great detail!!
The blues brothers is the best movie ever and it will never get old at all 👍
BRAVO!!!👏👏 Outstanding Video!!!