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Audrey Hepburn sings Moon River with a guitar on the fire escape in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961
MOVIES / ON LOCATION

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819 researched stories & collections7,495 story–place connections169 curated Worlds
Paramount Pictures publicity still, 1961 · Public domain · Cropped for this hero
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman look at each other in Casablanca
Burbank / Casablanca · FILMING & STORY PLACESCasablanca ↗︎Warner Bros. Pictures · Public domain in the United States; international status unreviewed
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on the Spanish Steps in a 1953 Roman Holiday publicity still
Rome · 14 PLACESRoman Holiday ↗︎Paramount Pictures publicity still, 1953 · Public domain
Kim Novak beneath the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Point in the 1958 Vertigo trailer
San Francisco · 12 PLACESVertigo ↗︎Paramount Pictures trailer frame, 1958 · Public domain
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CreditsImages cropped for display and presented in black and white. Casablanca: Warner Bros. publicity still (photographer unrecorded) · Public domain in the US (not renewed). Roman Holiday: Paramount Pictures · Public domain. Star Wars: Rob Bogaerts / Anefo (Nationaal Archief) · CC BY-SA 3.0 NL. James Bond: Comet Photo AG (Zürich), ETH-Bibliothek · CC BY-SA 4.0. Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Paramount Pictures publicity photograph (photographer not credited) · Public domain. The Wizarding World: Ilona Higgins · CC BY-SA 2.0. Back to the Future: TaurusEmerald · CC BY-SA 4.0. Middle-earth: Joe Ross · CC BY-SA 2.0. Vertigo: Paramount Pictures · Public domain. Notting Hill: Garry Knight from London, England · CC BY 2.0. The Sound of Music: 20th Century Fox · Public domain. Ghostbusters: ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0. When Harry Met Sally...: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0. Rocky: NBC · Public domain. Before Sunrise: Manfred Werner (Tsui) · CC BY-SA 4.0. The Third Man: Unknown photographer · Public domain.
Hobbiton visitor view, September 2016Hobbiton, New Zealand
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Hobbiton visitor view photographed 22 September 2016. Resized and JPEG recompressed; full frame preserved; not a film still or present-condition check. Display cropped and presented in black and white for this banner.

Joe Ross · CC BY-SA 2.0

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7 Steps: Daniel Vorndran / DXR · CC BY-SA 3.0. 8 Mile: Lei ma · CC BY-SA 3.0. 8 Rue de l'Humanité: Clem from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0. 13/11: Where It Was / OpenStreetMap contributors · Map design © Where It Was; coordinate data © OpenStreetMap contributors / ODbL. 28 Days Later: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0. 30 Jours Max: GFreihalter · CC BY-SA 3.0. 8½: Federico Fellini · Public domain. 120 Battements Par Minute: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0. 180: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 3.0. 355: Photograph: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0. (500) Days of Summer: Caryn Loveless · CC BY 3.0. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1968 trailer) · Public domain. A Beautiful Mind: Peter Dutton from Forest Hills, Queens, USA · CC BY 2.0. A Clockwork Orange: Stanley Kubrick (trailer) · Public domain. A D N: Roman SUZUKI · CC BY 3.0. A Fish Called Wanda: Ben Sutherland from Crystal Palace, London, UK · CC BY 2.0. À jamais fidèle: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0. A Man on The Inside: The Next Web from Amsterdam, Netherlands · CC BY-SA 2.0.

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