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Rutherford, NJ is a great “Anytown, USA” location!

Park Avenue in Rutherford, NJ at Dusk

• Within the New York City Film Zone
• Contact Borough Clerk for Film Permits (Rutherford Borough Website)
• There is a castle in Rutherford! *William Neumann, Chairman of the Rutherford Historic Preservation Commission and a life-long resident, is also the unofficial Rutherford Film Commission.

…Neumann adds, “… Rutherford also has an artificial turf exhibition stadium in the middle of a large recreation area (just had some filming done there), an equity performing arts center with two stages and three screening rooms, a rowing club on the Passaic River used by Olympic teams for practice, a small college campus with a vacant library building, dorm rooms, small gym and a castle, an architecturally wonderful train station in the middle of a town square, a comfortably vibrant downtown with interesting restaurant interiors, a picturesque town hall with nice old-fashion council chambers, several schools that date to over 100 yrs, a very diverse housing stock and landscape with a lot of 1920’s Foursquares and 1880 Queen Annes, a district of quaint semi-un-molested Cape Cods, a small district of Meadowlands, two large isolated office buildings, a nearby small commercial (Teterboro) airport, connections to all major roads and highways…

…and a film friendly atmosphere that has hosted many commercial, industrial, advertising, TV and feature productions.

If I can add anything more, please know I’m at your service.

- Billy (oh… and we are right across the river from Rutt’s Hut!)”

• Rutherford, NJ Wikipedia page
• Photos of Rutherford, NJ at Flickr
• Rutherford, NJ Google Images search

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New Hampshire Film and Television Office | About the New Hampshire Film and Television Office:

“The New Hampshire Film and Television Office, as part of the New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources, works to expand business activity and employment throughout the state by acting as a liaison between the film industry and an established network of government agencies, the state’s film industry workforce, and private residential and business property owners.

Working in tandem with the New Hampshire Film Commission, a fifteen-member advisory board made up of film industry professionals, government officials, and representatives of state associations, the Film Office is responsible for location research, public relations, literature publication and distribution, and general production support in an effort to broaden the cultural and economic impact of film and television production in the state.”

…read the rest…

Production Guide

Locations

News and Events

Filmography

Resource Links

FAQs

Media Room

Contact New Hampshire Film and Television Office

If you have never been to New Hampshire - it is something else - it really is a gorgeous gem in this great big ole USA of ours!

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New York State Film Office

About the New York State Governors Office of Motion Picture and Television Development:

“Our office is your liaison with city and local governments, state agencies, a network of statewide contacts, local film offices and professional location scouts. Call us and we’ll get you what you need or find the people who can help.” …read the rest…

About Film Production in the State of New York

Regions + Location Photos

Resources

Union + Guild Information

Film Production Tax Incentives

New York State TRIPLES Film Production Tax Credit!

News

NYS Film Office Contact Information

Links

FAQs

The New York State film production market is one of the largest in the United States as well as world-wide and has a world-class film office located in New York City equipped and eager to service the needs of the production community while furthering economic development in the State of New York.

Being located in New Jersey, very close to New York City and the lower Hudson Valley of New York, I call on the NYS Film Office (as well as the NYC Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) - the film liaison for New York City) frequently for assistance with location and production needs for film, video, photo and events productions; the NYS Film Office (as well as MOFTB) are always helpful and knowledgeable helping me solve any location or other production-related challenges as New York (state and / or city might avail themselves.

• Other Film Offices and related content on nyc.locationscout.us

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Nevada Film Office

“In Nevada, every production is important. More than 600 projects a year including feature films, television series and specials, commercials and other media receive attention from the Nevada film office, be it assistance with location breakdowns and scouting, defining and managing logistics, intergovernmental liaison, resource gathering, materials provision, problem solving and more.”

…read the rest…

Online Production Directory

Image and Location Library

Permitting

Promotional Videos

Register to receive the NFO Production Directory

Get Listed in the NFO Production Directory (for production services providers in Nevada)

Access NFO Contact Info, Nevada Profile, Screen Writers Competition, Screen Writers Competition Past Winners, Press Releases, Industry Links, Newsletters, Weather and Time Charts from the Resources Tab

I was in Nevada in Nov / Dec of 2007 with Team Q-Spheres in the Las Vegas / Lake Mead area - here are some photos. Find out more about Q-spheres.

• Nevada is a paradise for all us location scouts and location managers

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Locationscout.com | Location Scouting for Film Production

“Film Locations and Location Scouting. Links, contacts, software. Resources for film commissions, location scouts and managers”

One of the oldest location scouting websites on the internet is locationscout.com.

“This Website is maintained by Marino Pascal a Commercial Location Scout based in Los Angeles”

…on locationscout.com:

Partners and Clients | Location Scouting | Location Links | LocationTalk | Community | Software - Mac PC | Webhosting

…read the rest…

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Google Answers has a great thread full of info useful if you are interested in having your property used for movies, film and photo and want to know who to contact:

“Subject: rental property for movies and tv commercials
Category: Arts and Entertainment | Asked by: cuccina-ga | Google Answers: rental property for movies and tv commercials: Q: rental property for movies and tv commercials ( Answered, 0 Comments )

Question | Subject: rental property for movies and tv commercials | Category: Arts and Entertainment | Asked by: cuccina-ga | List Price: $10.00 Posted: 29 Jan 2004 19:24 PST | Expires: 28 Feb 2004 19:24 PST | Question ID: 301666

Who to contact to rent your home to production companies for movies or commericals

Answer | Subject: Re: rental property for movies and tv commericals | Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 29 Jan 2004 21:13 PST

Hi Cuccina! How to get your home in the movies:

• Secure Production Permission - Make sure that production is allowed in your neighborhood. If it is:
• Contact your state or local film commission. They’ll help you get your home on the market for shoots. Or
• Get in touch with a location agent.”

…read the rest…

Also referenced at rrhobbs.com FAQS

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New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Production Services Directory
“The Production Services Directory is your comprehensive guide to production related personnel, goods and services available in New Jersey. Search the category index…” …read the rest…

…Get listed…

…My NJ Film Production Services Directory listing (as well as listings of other New Jersey Locations Professionals)…

New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Website Headings
# New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Home Page
# About New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission
# Filming Regulations and Guidelines
# State Info - Weather, Maps…
# New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Location Library
# New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Production Services Directory
# New Jersey Filmography
# Now Filming
# Bulletin Board
# Press Releases
# Contact New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission
# Links
• Save New Jersey Film - at this writing, 4/5/2008, the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission is slated to be eliminated as of July 1st, 2008, per New Jersey state government budget cuts. NJ Film is responsible for economic development in the state of New Jersey by way of film production occurring in the state to the tune of $92m per year and is an invaluable resource for for filmmaking and production professionals statewide.
  · Support NJ Film / More Info
  · Contact New Jersey State Governor Jon S. Corzine’s Office

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The Colorado Production Resource Guide is a comprehensive portal of production resources available around the state of Colorado, produced and presented by the Colorado Film and Video Association:

About the CFVA

“The Colorado Film and Video Association (CFVA) is a professional association of film, video, digital media and multimedia professionals. CFVA was formed in July 1982 and now has over 750 members.”

About the Colorado Production Resource Guide:

“The Colorado Production Resource Guide (CPRG) is Colorado’s official production directory, put together yearly the by the Colorado Film and Video Association. The CPRG includes names and contact information for hundreds of people and businesses who work in the production industry. If you are involved with video, film or any other aspect of media production, you should be listed in the CPRG.”

…read the rest…

Colorado Production Resource Guide Section Guide Headings:
* Pre-Production & Development
* Production Companies
* Crew
* Production Equipment / Supplies / Facilities
* Post Production
* Location & Specialty Services
* Support Services
* Multimedia
* Film Commissions & Community Profiles

- Section Index

- Lister Index

Colorado Film Commission

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From YMCA of Greater New York | Requesting YMCA Space for Film & TV:

“If you are a film or television producer scouting locations, please DO NOT CONTACT YMCA BRANCHES. E-mail the following information to kshermach@ymcanyc.org:

• Your name, company’s name, telephone number and e-mail address
• Description of your project
• Treatment and/or script, including working title
• Specific request (space, duration, preferred dates and times)
• Proof of insurance
• Planned contribution
• Any additional information”

…read the rest…

…information retrieved 4/4/2008 - RH

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The jury is (and may always be) out on the best solutions for digital file archiving and backup. What follows are some thoughts about same and some solutions I have been exposed to:

• This videoblog post by David Pogue for his weekly tech column in the New York Times arrived in my inbox and I started feeling like I should, probably sooner rather than later, think more about backing up my ever-growing archive of location photos and other data I use as part of my livelihood.
  Pogue’s Pages

  • Decoding Battery Life for Laptops |
    This is a story of truth, greed and the American Way. Oh, and also laptop battery-life benchmarks. Two things about battery-life measurements for lapt. […]
  • What’s in Pogue’s Travel Bag? Literally. |
    I’m always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use. Last week’s “Pogue’s Productivity Secrets” e-colu. […]
  • This week’s video: Pogue’s Battery Rant |
    David rants about laptop battery measurements.
• This post on TechCrunch got me doing something about it in an online way.
  TechCrunch

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    Recently, I’ve noticed something. If you send me an email, the likelihood that I’m going to respond is pretty small. But if you send me a message on T. […]
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    Like most things on the Internet, there’s a good side and a dark side to where the media business is headed. The good side is very good: thousands o. […]
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    It’s not often that Internet companies last 10 years, but Moonfruit in the UK has proved pretty resilient. It survived the dotcom boom the first time. […]
• Update 3/5/2008 - Mashable - July 28, 2007 — 04:50 AM PDT — by Sean P. Aune

  ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites

  “From sending one document to backing up an entire business, data storage is the key to everything nowadays. Due to popular demand, we’ve put together a list of more than 80 of the leading file hosting services, many of which are completely free.” (…read the rest…)

  Mashable!

  • Tweetmeme Retweets Become Elite Next Week | Saturday, 4 July 2009, 1:43 am
    Retweeting, as we’ve mentioned before (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), is an increasingly popular way to share content on the web. Twitter is such. […]
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    A few months ago, we reviewed a unique reminder app: Task.fm. In our assessment, we noted its Twitter-like approach to reminders and its ability to de. […]
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    With the 4th of July weekend just hours away, it’s time to wish our US readers a Happy Independence Day! Hopefully you’ll be spending at least som. […]

Here’s the scenario- as a location scout, I deal with A LOT of photos- individually they are not unusually large files, but between scouting jobs and photos that people send me of their property, I look at and have to deal with organizing a heapo’ pictures on just about a daily basis! Not only that, in the location scouting biz, information is money so there have to be ways to access this visual information quickly(as well as the contact info and notes about each- but more on that later…).

The first place any photos go when I aquire them is a remote 160 GB Firewire (or IEEE 1394) hard drive pretty much dedicated to archiving location photos, shortly after which, especially if the photos were made for an in-progress location scouting job, they get uploaded to my Locamundo account for immediate use in an online location album and archived for permanent reference.

Call me paranoid but what if:

my hard drive crashes?

locamundo crashes? (the photos get compressed on locamundo too and I have prefer to have “original photos”). Also I could lose my internet connection temporarily (its happenned more than once and could occur on the Locamundo end or my ISP’s end (network problems, severe weather/ power outage) in any case, its annoying and does nothing to help me help my client solve their problems, which we are more often than not trying to do on a tight deadline.

I have many of my files backed up locally on yet another local harddrive partition, but all these files on the same machine take up a lot of hardrive space. The cost is not such a problem in and of itself, harddrives get cheaper every day; however, all these files lying around in partitions on the same local harddrive(s) do nothing to help speed along more mundane tasks such as searching for files, whether they be related to location scouting scouting or not and really increase the time it takes for my anti-virus program to do its daily scan of my system. I defragment my hardrives regularly to help keep them speedy and healthy and lots of files make that go much slower as well.

Purchasing additional removable drives might be the way to go.

In “the real world”, the fact is, once my files are uploaded and keyworded on Locamundo, I may not ever need to touch them again, or if I do it is likely to be a long time before I do, but the fact remains that I cant just delete them.

Enter online storage solutions.

Right now I am trying out MediaMax Streamload. Streamload is the name of a Windows program ditributed by MediaMax which runs locally(on my computer) as a service and provides a secure network link to my private file storage account on MediaMax’s server. At this writing, MediaMax provides a free 25GB account, upgradable to provide more storage space. Then next upgrade level is 100GB for $4.95 per month, which is very affordable and which I might move up to as soon as I figure out why Streamload is hanging when I try to access the local folders where my files are located. I like the online solutions, they do backups on their end as well.

But…like I said, I gotta lotta files, it could be a matter of organizing them differently so the Streamload application doesnt cease to respond. Compared to local drives, an internet connection, from dialup all the way up to heavy-duty broadband connections are pretty lightweight. You can cram just so much info in a data pipe at time. It’s always something…

Update: After opening a free Media Max account and downloading and running the Streamload Beta, when I used it to find my files to upload, the program hung and had to be forced closed. Kinda defeated the purpose of using proprietary software whose stated purpose was to facilitate uploading large numbers of files simply and quickly. When I needed to do a restart my entire system hung. I rebooted to safe mode and to try and uninstall Streamload that way but its uninstaller would not work in safe mode. I had noticed that Streamload was running as a Windows Service so I disabled it there, rebooted normally and uninstalled Streamload. Summarily, it didnt seem to play well with my system, your mileage may vary.

Hmm, maybe there are some Bittorrent solutions out there? In addition to bittorrents typically taking a LONG time (this is my experience- again, your mileage may vary), they rely on a pool of people sharing a file to pass the pieces to each other and the Bittorrent app takes up recources while it is working- I dont wanna share my files with others and sometime I have to have a lot of programs open on my computer that I need to be running full steam- I sure dont need bog-downs and crashes trying to make a deadline! Still, gotta look into that a little more

CD’s/DVD’s you say? Been there, done that. Takes forever, ties up computer resources and the media (the cd’s/ dvd’s) data deteriorates over time. I have two crates of cd’s that I have used to back up files over the years and everytime I put one in the cd drive, if it is more than a year or two old, there is a good chance it is unreadable- corrupted. I have cd’s going on ten years old, I probably have a lot of files I may never again have access to. File recovery is VERY time consuming or VERY expensive. Remember Zip Disks and floppies? What a laugh!

IDE, Firewire and USB Harddrives have become very affordable so, as I mentioned above, this is a road I have followed as recently as the past year or so. Traditional IDE hardrives of very good quality can be bought very cheaply and the prices seem to continue to drop. Cases and USB/Firewire interfaces amke these drives removable and portable. These drives are fast. May be time to buy some new hardware.

I welcome feedback about all this so, for now, I am going to leave comments open for this post, something I rarely do, as I just dont have time (you see me trying to buy just a little time doing backups here don’cha?) to put into housecleaning blog spam. Akismet, do your thing! We’ll see how it goes…

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updates:
• 4/21/2008 update | added map / feeds / general cleanup | previous timestamp: March 5, 2008 at 8:13 pm
• Note: Post updated Sat March 5th, 2008.
• Note: Post updated Sat Feb 17th, 2007.

Crazy UFO Location in Germany! …via Locamundo …via creative location - Thomas Duchnicki:

click image for a better view

This location is kinda like a UFO from a 1950’s b-movie - wild, huh?…

Thomas writes, “Hallo Richard - Hi from Berlin, this UFO is near Berlin.”

Contact Thomas for more info…

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Save Filmmaking in New Jersey

“Governor Corzine has eliminated funding for the New Jersey State Film Commission starting July 1st 2008.

That means they will no longer exist after that date.

Beginning June 30 2008, The Government of the State of New Jersey has decided to eliminate The New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission from the state budget -

Filming in the state of New Jersey generated $92 Million dollars last year, money spent to employ New Jersey residents, as well as purchase goods and services from New Jersey businesses.”

…read the rest…

There are often HUGE misconceptions about the purpose and scope of a film office - when someone, especially perhaps a person not directly involved in the production industry (please note that word - “industry”) - hears that phrase, “film commission”, their knee-jerk reaction might be, “oh, that’s lovely - a department for the arts”… and the conventional school of thought might be, “oh, that’s lovely, but if state funds are scarce….”

Guess again. The New Jersey Film Commission is about economic development.

“Filming in the state of New Jersey generated $92 Million dollars last year, money spent to employ New Jersey residents, as well as purchase goods and services from New Jersey businesses.”

That ain’t chump change.

Filmmaking is a clean industry as well - you won’t have a movie come in and find out later they left heavy metal deposits in the ground water.

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Please contact The New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission today and find out how you can help save this invaluable economic resource from misguided legislative actions at New Jersey state government levels:

New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission
153 Halsey Street - 5th Floor
P.O. Box 47023
Newark, New Jersey 07101
Phone: 973-648-6279
Fax: 973-648-7350
Email: njfilm@njfilm.org
Web: http://www.njfilm.org

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I recently had the opportunity and pleasure recently to work with our own Passaic County Film Commission, which is an economic development arm of the Passaic County, NJ county government.

Passaic County, NJ (I live in Clifton, NJ, which is in Passaic County) is a very viable resource for location scouts, location managers and producers of film, video and photo media, given its proximity to New York City (most, if not all of the county is in the NYC film zone), population density and subsequently, diversity of potential locations and other resources of likely value to production.

The Passaic County Film Commission also sponsors the Passaic County Film Festival.

The film office is headed up by Deborah Hoffman, Director of Economic Development for the county. Deborah, if by no other virtue than her job, knows LOTS of people around the county and is well connected in the local business community. What this translates to is Deborah is the initial point person for “making things happen” if there is interest in making use of production and location resources in Passaic County. Deborah’s contact info can be found on the Passaic County website.

As a side note, Deborah’s office works closely with the New Jersey Film Commission. The New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission is located in Newark, NJ. The State of New Jersey currently offers attractive tax incentives for film production in New Jersey, which, of course, includes Passaic County.

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Q-spheres Website


(above) Quicktime output of Q-sphere of Team Q-spheres at Lake Mead, NV, December 2007 (c) 2007-2009 Q-spheres.com

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

R. Richard Hobbs / nyc.locationscout.us is now a qualified provider of Q-spheres HDRi 3d digital imaging services.

In association with LocationExchange, Locamundo, and Team Q-spheres qualified associates worldwide, we aim to build on our collective traditional location scouting and location management services skills and location archive assets and resources, going forward to provide an even greater range of services to not only keep pace with, but rather lead the way in rapidly changing digital imaging technologies for the still photography, motion pictures and 3-d gaming and animation industries.

Our current digital imaging system, developed by Locamundo founder Jo VanHove (Brussels, BE), provides the fastest currently-available methods for generating the highest-quality, full-dynamic-range, 3d, image-based lighting models (lightfields) and HDRi backgrounds. Our worldwide team of expert imaging and production professionals strives to keep abreast of and implement as we might find productive, new developments and available methods - adapting our imaging technologies to provide the highest-standard services and products with regard to not only imaging quality, but with considerations toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness as well.

Q-spheres can be hired to provide assignment-specific imaging and also maintains an archive of rights-managed post-ready high quality backgrounds and lightfields.

Please contact us for your next imaging project and let us show you how Q-spheres can work for you!

Q-spheres Official Press Release, July 2007 (pdf)

Q-spheres Associates Worldwide (Alphabetically, by company or last name):

1. Meuleman Manu (brauhaus.be / Antwerp, BE)
   
2. Thomas Duchnicki (creativelocation.de / Berlin, DE)
3. Rickard Molin (fixmolin.se / Stockholm, SE)
4. John Cody, Dan Uneken (fotofilmvideo.com / Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
5. Francoise Huvelle (Q-spheres.com / Buenos Aires, AR)
6. Scott Clark (iwerken.com / Albuquerque, NM, USA)
7. Jo VanHove (loc8, locamundo.com, locationexchange.com / Brussels, BE)
8. Locations Portugal (locationsportugal.com / Lisbon, PT)
9. Peter Orth (planetorth.com / Los Angeles, CA, USA)
10. R. Richard Hobbs (rrhobbs.us / New York, NY, USA)
11. Francesca Carapelli, Leonardo Semplici, Stefano Tinti (scout.it / Siena, Italy)
12. Mark McMcKennon (scoutman.com / New York, NY, USA)
13. Frans VanDenBemd (vandenbemd.com / Prinsenbeek (Breda), NL)
14. Clare Beresford (worldlocations.com / Paris, FR)

In November / December 2007, I travelled to the Lake Mead, NV area to meet with, along with the rest of Team Q-spheres USA, Jo VanHove and Frans VanDenBemd for an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with and use the Q-spheres digital capture system. During the course of the trip, not only did the American contingent of Team Q-spheres come away with a thorough training in Q-spheres technology and practices, the results of the actual Q-spheres sessions have provided us all with the valuable assets of beautiful lightspheres and backgrounds of the Nevada desert.

(above) Actual low-resolution lightfield of Team Q-spheres USA

Q-spheres Las Vegas Session @ Locamundo

Q-spheres training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members

View Q-spheres Nevada Photoset on Flickr

related content about Q-spheres

General information about HDRi

General Information about image based lighting

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Professor Tony Pemberton, from the Montclair State University Film School, Montclair, NJ recently contacted me requesting assistance placing his film students in intern positions during the coming summer months.

If you are a bona fide film production company or other relevant film or broadcast industry professional and there is room in your organization to help a film student gain some valuable industry experience please contact Professor Pemberton.

-RH

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This past week I was contacted by a mid-Westchester County, NY property owner about the prospect of using their 200 year-old farmhouse home as a shoot location for film, photo or video projects.

As evidenced by the rest of the content here on my website and very likely because you were looking for someone like me, you probably already know I am a location scout and location manager and maintain a location library of shoot-ready locations for use by film, video and photo production.

In addition to being a beautiful home, this particular house has the distinction of recently being the “hero house”, or one of the main filming locations in the soon-to-be-released Miramax Film Corporation feature film, The Hoax, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Richard Gere and Alfred Molina (complete IMDB webpage here) which attempts to tell the story of the Clifford Irving / Howard Hughes autobiography scandal of the 1970’s.

The owner relates to me that filming for the movie last year at their home went on pretty much full time for a period of about two months and that, overall, they enjoyed the experience and wish to host more shoots at their home in the future.

The home is located within a 30 mile radius of Columbus Circle, New York City, so it may be considered “within the zone” for many film and video shoots.

Remarkable Mid-County, East Westchester Residential Film Location

If you are interested in booking this location for your film, photo or video shoot please contact R. Richard Hobbs. This location may be available for film, photo and video media projects that allow for a reasonable location budget. Serious, production-related film location inquiries only, please.

Are you a homeowner or other property owner (i.e. small business owner) whose property would look great in pictures? List your property with us! Start here for full particulars.

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Here is a way to imbed your Flickr photos on your website using the Mapsack Flickr Widget, which could be useful for a location scout wishing to present locations to a client at the same time illustrating said locations’ geographic postion(s).

You will need a Flickr account (and some photos in that account that have been geotagged).

Unless you have some experience working with Wordpress don’t bother. If you have no idea what the term “javascript” means, then don’t bother.

Use the links and info given in this post to explore for yourself and complete your project to your own end. DO NOT contact me for support and please understand that I accept no responsibility for anything you do (or undo) to your website playing around with any of these toys. Otherwise- have fun!

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About Filming Permits | Information for Production and Property Owners:

Many towns and municipalities in the New York City area, especially those close to Manhattan such as Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex Counties in New Jersey; Westchester, Rockland and Orange Counties, NY; Nassau County, Long Island, NY and the Stamford, CT area, to New York City (which as been a major filming hub for many years) have filming permit requirements.

Additional Info:

Many New York City area productions are crewed with members of various guilds and unions that have established their own “film zones“, or, generally speaking, areas in which they will work as locals. Depending on the union or guild in question generally the New York City “film zone” (or “The Zone”) is a radius of 25-30 miles emanating from Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Non-union productions often use “The Zone” as a point of reference for travel and logistics as well.

Towns and municipalities in “The Zone” are more likely to have formal permit requirements and there may be fees involved. Towns and municipalities outside “The zone” may have permit requirements as well, however requirements tend to relax as distance from New York City increases and population density decreases.

There are exclusive communities that do not allow filming at all, however this is the exception.

The point being made is that property owners and production alike should check with local government as to whether a property (whether it be municipally-owned or privately owned) under consideration as a filming location is subject to film permit requirements.

Property owners and production alike should understand and should be prepared to comply with any local filming or photography permit requirements as they may exist. Not only is it the right thing to do, but when you think about it it be could darn expensive to reshoot after being shut down for not having a permit!

The city clerk’s office or police department are good starting points for getting information regarding local film permit requirements.

Often a film permit will include require production to provide a certificate of insurance showing the municipality third-party additionally insured.

Sometimes “leafleting” or advising neighbors in writing of an intended shoot is a permit requirement.

Many permit requirements revolve around issues of impact on the community with regard to traffic congestion and safety, noise, and “general commotion”. Even a small photo crew, under certain circumstances, let alone a large production with a large crew, many vehicles and a lot of equipment can be potentially be very disruptive to neighbors or the area at-large.

Permit requirements very widely from town to town and can require as little effort as notifying the local police department or sending the town a letter of intent to multiple forms to multiple local government offices / agencies and fees of over $1000 per day.

Even if there is no formal permit required is usually advisable to contact the local government and police department, especially if a shoot is to take place on public property or has any potential whatsoever of being disruptive in any way.

Helpful links:

NJ Film Office

NYS Governors Office of Motion Picture and Television Development

The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting

Nassau County, Long Island, NY Film Office and The Long Island Film & TV Foundation

Suffolk County, Long Island, NY Film Office

Westchester County, NY Film Office

Connecticut Film Office

Pennsylvania Film Office

Philadelphia Film Office

Association of Film Commissions International

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