"usatraveler" wrote in message
news:rLmdnZwc4NFZWKrfRVn-2A@adelphia.com...
>
> "PTRAVEL" wrote in message
> news:39odvjF613a5fU1@individual.net...
>>
>> "Kirbydale" wrote in message
>> news:Kirbydale.1lwf5l@no-mx.travelforums.org...
>> >
>> > Are you able to just walk around the studions?
>>
>> Absolutely not. None of the studios are open to the public. You need to
> be
>> "on the list" to get in, i.e. you have business there and are expected.
>>
>> Live-audience shows are taped or filmed in sound stages which are on the
>> lots -- that's about the only way someone not in the business is going to
>> get in, but you will definitely not be allowed to wander around.
>>
>> Burbank Studios and Paramount each have escorted studio tours, but I
>> sincerely doubt either would admit a 2-year old, nor is it appropriate to
>> bring a toddler along.
>>
>> Universal has a so-called "studio tour," but it is little more than a
> theme
>> park ride, unrelated to the studio itself (which is next door), except
>> for
> a
>> tram ride through a small portion of the backlot.
>
> I'm not a fan of the Universal tour, but the tram does drive past the
> major
> stages (you can't see what's going on inside) and occasionally past
> backlot
> sets that are being prepped and struck. I can see how that might be
> fascinating to someone who's never been on a studio lot before. Lately,
> the
> tram has been taking riders through Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" set:
> http://www.miceage.com/allutz/al030105e.htm
The Burbank Studios tour takes visitors through the backstage shops, onto
working sets and shows actual film and television production. Burbank
Studios has a back lot, albeit a smaller one than Universal, that includes
(or at least included when I was working in the business) the town square
from Back to the Future, the New York street that was used for Annie and
countless other movies, and a number of other famous locations.
When I worked at Universal, I'd see the trams go whizzing by outside the
sound stages but, unless you like seeing the buildings that look for all the
world like warehouses, there's not much else other than a stagey and very
fake turn around the backlot.
The problem with the Universal "tour" is that it has virtually nothing to do
with how television and film is produced. The Burbank tour (and, I
understand, the Paramount tour -- though Paramount doesn't have a backlot)
actually gives a taste of how production is done.
>
>
|