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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 awaken interest by people to visit those
locations.
Following is a list of TV series with information on some of the
location shots that has been captured on celluloid. |
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Home and Away
• Filmed in Sydney, New South Wales, with most
of the shots done in Seven Network studios. Scenes done with the
Beachside Diner, the Drop In Centre, the interior of the Surf Club
and the interior of the Sutherlands' house are all filmed in the
studios.Of the exterior scenes, such as the Beachside Diner, the
exterior of the Surf Club and the beach itself are shot in Palm
Beach, a suburb of Sydney located on the northern beaches, nearly a
two hours bus ride from the Central Business District. The long and
secluded beach, with Barren Joey at the end is a favourite tourist
stop for fans.
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Sydney
Sydney Metropolitan
• Accommodation
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Other links
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Home and
Away
• The official site. |
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Home and
Away NZ
• A New Zealand Fan site. |
Home and
Away.org
• An Irish site dedicated to Home and Away. |
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Neighbours
• Is Ramsay Street arguably the most famous
Australia street? Set in a small peaceful suburb called Erinsborough,
Neighbours originally centred around three families, the Ramsays,
the Robinsons and the Clarkes. Local residents also appeared for
romance and conflict. The narrative structures is sufficiently loose
to allow for a considerable turnover of characters.Shot in the
outer suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. Ramsay Street is a real
location called Pin Oak Court, a cul-de-sac in the Melbourne
suburbs. To get to Pin Oak Court from Melbourne, you need to catch a
train to Glen Waverley Station, then a bus from there to the top of
Weeden Drive. Walk down Weeden Drive and Pin Oak Court is the third
road on the left.
- Blackburn South
Erinsborough High (Blackburn English Language School, Eley Rd)
- Box Hill
Court (Box Hill Town Hall, Whitehorse Rd)
Drew and Libby’s Flat (6 Alexander St)
Erinsborough Court (Box Hill Town Hall)
Swimming pool (Aquatic Centre, Box Hill Pool, Surrey Park,
Canterbury Rd)
- Burwood East
Community Hall (East Burwood Recreational Reserve, Burwood Hwy)
RSPCA and Animal Emergency Centre, Burwood Hwy
School Sports Day (Bill Sewart Athletics Track, Recreational
Reserve, Burwood Hwy)
- Chirnside Park
Hotel - Jack and Izzy’s night of passion (The Sebel Lodge Yarra
Valley, Heritage Ave)
- Doncaster
Rosie Hoyland’s Church (Holy Trinity, Church Rd)
- Forest Hill
Erinsborough Dingoes (Nunawading Football/Cricket Oval, Mahoneys
Rd)
Lassiter’s Interior (Brand Receptions, Mahoneys Rd)
Salvation Army Store (Brentford Square, Canterbury Rd)
Shopping Mall (Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, cnr Mahoneys and
Canterbury Rds)
Soccer pitch (Nunawading City Soccer Club, Mahoneys Rd)
Swimming pool (Nunawading Aquatic Centre, Husband Rd)
- Glen Waverley
Summer and Declan’s date at the movies (Village Cinemas, Century
Walk, Springvale Rd)
Tad confronts Doula (Mountain View Hotel, 186 Springvale Rd)
- Keilor
Ben’s racetrack crash (Calder Park Raceway, Calder Hwy)
- Melbourne
Hotel - Dee and Toadie celebrate their engagement (Hyatt Hotel)
Lou and Trixie’s wedding (Her Majesty's Theatre, Spring St)
- Ringwood East
Erinsborough Hospital (Maroondah Hospital, Mount Dandenong Rd)
Jamie Clarke's birth (Ringwood Lake, Maroondah Hwy)
- Vermont South
Ramsay Street (Pin Oak Court)
Beverly Marshall’s house (Huskey Court)
Source: a variety of sources,
including
erinsborough.com
You can also do tours or visit:
Official
Neighbours Tour
Ph: +61 3 9629 5866 (7 am- 9 pm) • 
Neighbours Centre
570 Flinders St, MELBOURNE VIC 3000
Neighbours Tour Shop
• 121 Fitzroy St, ST KILDA VIC 3182
• Ph: 03 9534 4755 • 
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Melbourne
• Accommodation |
Other links
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Neighbours
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• Official site. |
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AussieSoap • Neighbours.me.uk
• Extensive
site with heaps of info on the series that the British viewers are
mad about. |
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erinsborough.com
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• A fan site dedicated to Neighbours.
Heaps of information. |
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SeaChange
• Something rich and strange... Set in a fictional place called Pearl Bay, but
with external shots mainly in the seaside fishing village of Barwon
Heads, not far from Geelong and Melbourne in Victoria.
- Laura’s Home (Barwon Heads). The shack is owned by the local
caravan park, and can be rented out. However all interior scenes
were shot at the ABC Elsternwick studios.
- Max’s Shack (Barwon Heads). The exterior set was built for the
series.
- Tropical Star Hotel (St Leonards). The original idea was to have SeaChange filmed
in the tropics, but when it was decided the series would be set
elsewhere, the name stuck.
- Caravan Park (Barwon Heads and South Werribee).
- Jelly Home (suburbs of Melbourne). The Jelly House is actually
two houses, one in the western suburbs and another in the south
east of Melbourne.
- Bob Jelly Realty (St Leonards).
- The Boatshed (Barwon Heads).
- Courthouse (Williamstown). The courthouse is a surf
lifesaving club in real life.
- Police Station (Newport). The Pearl Bay Police Station
is actually an abandoned Ambulance Station.
- Pearl Bay Co-op (Black Rock). The co-op is a surf
lifesaving club in real life.
Source: ABC
SeaChange.
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Melbourne
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Other links
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SeaChange
• The original ABC site about this popular series. The
site has now been archived. |
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SeaChange
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• A fan site including cast info and more. |
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SeaChange
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• A fan site, with episode guide and more. |
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SeaChange
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• Fan site with gallery, links,
production etc. |
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SeaChange
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• Fan site with SeaChange quiz,
character profiles and more. |
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SeaChange
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• A fan site has a good layout and
links. |
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Locations |
Survivor II
• Early speculation had the Survivor II
being shot either in Kakadu or Arnhem Land, in Australia’s Northern Territory.
For the purposes of control, the
filming location was later revealed to be within a
privately owned cattle station known as Goshen along the Herbert
River, with Tully Falls nearby. Just over 110 kms south west of Cairns, at the edge of
Davies Creek National Park. |
Cairns
• Accommodation |
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Sylvania Waters
• Premiering on Australian
television in 1992, this documentary style TV series followed the lives of an
Australian family, chronicling the life of the couple Noeline Baker,
Laurie Donaher and their largely adult offspring. Set in the harbourside suburb
of Sylvania Waters in southern Sydney, it was billed as a ‘real-life’ soap
opera.The agreement struck with the family was that the crew was allowed to
film ‘anywhere, at any time, except when family members were using the bathroom
or making love’. The family have now left the suburb to live elsewhere.
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Sydney • Accommodation
Sydney Metropolitan
Sutherland |
Other links
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The Museum of Broadcast
Communications
• Check the archives for some info
on
Sylvania Waters. |
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