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Cinema, Celluloid, Festivals |
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Australia offers many wonderful locations for the making of
movies, documentaries and other television shows. Through it’s
modern history, many movies and series have been produced in diverse
regions by both local and international film makers, that has awoken interest by people to visit those locations.
Following is a list of some of the movies with information about
some of the locations they were shot in. |
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A Town like Alice • Dirty Deeds
• Not far from Broken
Hill is the small town of Silverton. Once a thriving mining town,
it’s biggest drawcard is probably
the Silverton Hotel. The unusual pub has been featured in a
variety of movies and many locals can tell you a tale about the
town’s brushes with fame. |
Silverton
• Accommodation
Broken Hill
• Accommodation |
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The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
• A road
movie about transvestites and a transsexual who travel by bus from Sydney to Alice
Springs, via Broken Hill. When the gals arrived in town they stayed
at the Palace Hotel, which they called ‘tack-o-rama’. Visitors can
book accommodation there today.The Breakaways Reserve just
north of town is also one of the locations used in ‘The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert’.
There are spectacular landforms and the ‘moonscape’ plains. Keep an eye
out for the ‘shortcut’ in Priscilla, you will also
see the great Dingo Fence. |
Coober Pedy
• Accommodation
Breakaway
Reserves
Broken Hill
• Accommodation |
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Babe
• Starring Christine Cavanaugh, James Cromwell, Magda
Szubanski.
Babe, Pig in the City
• Starring James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski
and Mickey Rooney.
Filmed entirely in Australia with the majority
of the filmed animals housed in specially-designed facilities at Fox
Studios in Sydney. The other animals were housed at Robertson, NSW
Southern Highlands, the
location of the Hogget Farm.
- Fox Studios, Sydney, NSW
- Robertson, Sydney, NSW
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Sydney
Sydney Metropolitan
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The Dish
• The movie was more then a hit comedy, it also brought
to people's attention the history of the telescope in Parkes and the
role it played in the 1969 moon landing, when California had trouble
picking up signals from Apollo 11. Having been in operations since
1961, it is now a tourist attraction, and can be viewed from the
visitor centre, where there are also displays and exhibits about
astronomy, that also includes the ‘whispering dishes’ - small
replicas of the dish through which you can talk to your mates. The
telescope is just over 20 kms north of Parkes, follow the signs off the
Newell Highway.
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Parkes • Accommodation |
Other links
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Parkes
Observatory
• Ph: 02 6861 1777 • Fax: 02 6861 1770 • 
• One of Parkes new main attractions, made even more famous
by the movie ‘The Dish’, and attracting visitors from around the
world. Visit the website for more information. |
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Mad Max
• Series of films. All of the locations for the first
two films were within a particular area for each film, within a
couple hours drive. With the first Mad Max, much of the location
shots were around the city of Melbourne.Mad Max 2 was filmed
around the area of Broken Hill and Silverton, however the opening
scene and the final truck wreck scene were filmed on the vast dusty,
arid landscape of Mundi Mundi Plains. If you are interested in
checking out three of the vehicles used in Mad Max 2, head to
Penrose Park, located just five minutes outside Silverton.
There is a lookout used in Mad Max 2, just down the road from
Silverton, out by the reservoir that has a view over the vast desert
as far as the eye can see.
The Breakaways Reserve just north of town is also one of the
locations used in Mad Max. There are great landforms and the
‘moonscape’ plains. Keep an eye out for Bartertown in Mad Max 3, you
will also get to see the Dingo Fence. The movie ‘Mad Max: Beyond
Thunderdome’ actually used more locations than the previous two
films. The main sets that included distant shots of Bartertown and
the general desert area were filmed around Coober Pedy in South
Australia. The climactic chase scenes that took place along a
railroad line was shot roughly 40 kms west of town. ‘The crack in
the earth’ where the children are found was actually filmed in the
Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The ‘Underworld’ was shot in an
unused bull sale ring in Glebe (a suburb in Sydney). The set of
Bartertown was built at a Sydney brick pit, close to Olympic Park,
before Olympic Park was built. The pit was closed in 1993 when the
endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog were discovered living in the
freshwater ponds within the brick pit. The area is fenced off,
although you can see within it from certain advantage points in
Olympic Park. Other scenes such as Underworld and the crashed
plane were filmed in other locations of New South Wales. The model
of Sydney was built in a large warehouse in Alexandria (a suburb in
Sydney) and filmed at North Head Peninsula, that overlooks Sydney
Harbour.
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Coober Pedy
• Accommodation
Breakaway
Reserves
Broken Hill
• Accommodation
Silverton
• Accommodation |
Other links
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Mad Max
Movies
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• A great site with heaps of information
about the movies, including where on location they were shot. |
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The Matrix
• Starring Hugo Weaving, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. Filmed on location in Sydney and
at Fox Studios, and for two months, on Sydney’s streets, rooftops and in warehouses. Locations include:
- Phone Booth, Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW
- Allianz Building, Market St, Sydney, NSW
- Aon Tower, 201 Kent St, Sydney, NSW
- BT Tower, Market St, Sydney, NSW
- Colonial State Bank Centre, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW
- Fox Studios, Moore Park, Sydney, NSW
- Post Office, Railway Square, Sydney, NSW
- White Bay, Anzac Bridge, Sydney, NSW
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Sydney
Sydney Metropolitan
• Accommodation |
Other links
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What is the Matrix • Matrix Revolutions
• Official site. |
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The
Animatrix
• A spin off from the Matrix, with some of the shorts
available online for download. |
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Know the
Matrix
• One mans interpretation of the matrix. |
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Matrix
News and Rumors
• News, rumours, faq and images. |
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Movie-Page.com
• Includes some info on the
Matrix. |
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Picnic At Hanging Rock
• Starring Dominic Guard,
Helen Morse and Rachel Roberts. On Saturday 14th February 1900,
a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College picnicked at
Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During
the afternoon several members of the party disappeared without
trace... Hanging Rock is about 75 kms north-west of Melbourne.
Just take the Calder Highway to Woodend and follow the signs. Location shots include:
- Woodend, VIC
- Hanging Rock, VIC
- Central Goldfields, VIC
- Martindale Hall, Clare Valley, SA
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Coober Pedy
• Accommodation
Breakaway
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Other links
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Harvest Picnic Foundation
• The Age Harvest Picnic at Hanging Rock
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• A celebration of Victorian food and wine held at a venue made
famous by the movie. |
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Martindale Hall
• Ph: 08 8843 9088 •
• 19th century Georgian mansion built in
1879. The mansion was used as the girls boarding school in the
movie. |
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Red Planet
• A movie about the first piloted mission to Mars,
starring Val Kilmer. Locations, shots include the desert region about
20 kms out from the mining town of Coober Pedy. This bleak, desolate
terrain has areas that look similar to the Mars Pathfinder photos.
There is one place called ‘Moon Plain’. Interior photography was
shot at Sydney’s Fox Studios. |
Coober Pedy
• Accommodation
Breakaway
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Welcome to Woop Woop
• The town of Woop Woop was a constructed 2 km square
town, built just 45 minutes out of Alice Springs. |
Alice
Springs
• Accommodation |
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Reckless Kelly • Wake in Fright • Dirty Deeds
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Mission Impossible 2
• The aridity of the land being extremely
barren, dry and dusty, around Broken Hill (also known as ‘The Silver
City’) was a popular location for many movies. |
Broken Hill
• Accommodation |
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