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My office is located and I live in Clifton, NJ, about 10 miles from midtown Manhattan. It’s a pretty typical north New Jersey working-class town, we have a city hall, a high school and other lower schools, a number of small business storefronts, and shopping mall at the edge of town. We also have a number of parks and one that I drive or walk (past or thru) often is Eddie Mayo Field, on Clifton Avenue.

Edward Joseph (Eddie) Mayo (April 15, 1910 - November 27, 2006), nicknamed “Hotshot” and “Steady Eddie,” was a Major League Baseball infielder who played nine seasons for the New York Giants (1936), Boston Braves (1937-1938), Philadelphia Athletics (1943) and Detroit Tigers (1944-1948).

…Mayo was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, but grew up in Clifton, New Jersey. Born Edward Joseph Mayoski, Mayo was the son of Polish immigrants who changed their name to Mayo.

…His best season was 1945 when he helped lead the Detroit Tigers to a World Series championship and was selected as the American League’s Most Valuable Player by The Sporting News.

…read more…

Being a location scout for film tv and photography, I’ve always thought Eddie Mayo Field might make a good filming location!

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The photos on the card are from a location scouting job I did this summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn and a house from my locationfiles.com Locamundo location library in the Houses Locations Album (45953 Montclair, NJ); read more about this home here.

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The photos below were made from a private space in the Starrett - Lehigh Building at 601 West 26th Street in the neighborhood known as West Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, NY looking uptown and (in the panorama below) displaying, from the left (west) the Hudson River and New Jersey cross-town to right (east), the Empire State Building on the edge of the frame.

ALL location scouts LOVE the Manhattan skyline!

Manhattan at Night From West Chelsea Panorama

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Reel Jersey Film Festival Part Dieux | Film Festival Gems

Saturday September 27 was a sort of dreary day weather-wise, so it was a perfect day for trying to pack in seeing as many film festival films as possible.

I managed to see four films on Saturday at the Reel Jersey Film Festival (in the order I saw them):

1. New Jersey - The Movie (trailer) | See All Productions | Stephen R. Chernoski, Director
2. My Life As An UnderDog (trailer) | Art of Madness | Boris Gavrilovic, Director | IMDB
3. Lisa Loeb - Songwriting “Just Like You” (trailer) | Valenti Vision Films | Joe Valenti, Director | IMDB
4. The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman | Watch this entire film in three parts! | Valenti Vision Films | Joe Valenti, Director | IMDB

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Reel Jersey Film Festival: WeirdNJ Party / Midnight Movie: The Blood Shed

I got to the party at Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ around 10:30 pm; fortunately, there was still plenty of “Joisey-cuisine” - icy cold Busch beer and White Castle burgers left to drink and eat!

While The Coffin Daggers got ready for their set, the screen in the grand old Rivoli Theater played scenes from a very diverse variety of b-movie horror and soft-core 60’s nudie flicks (just like a midnite movie At around 11:15pm The Coffin Daggers played an excellent set of hard-driving and loud surf rock instrumentals, to a horror muxvid loop playing above them, after which the overweight drag couple in matching Bo-Peep-hybrid outfits (I didn’t see any shepherd’s canes …or sheep, for that matter, but maybe that’s a good thing! … or maybe they were sposed to be the twins from The Shining? …dunno… ) joined Mark and Mark from WeirdNJ onstage for the raffle drawing. I didn’t win - oh well…

The cast from The Blood Shed took the stage, Mark introduced the film and we were all off and running! (to the comfort of ulphostered theater lounge seats in the Rivoli, that is…)

The Blood Shed is classic Alan Rowe Kelly fare falling somewhere btn the b-movie flicks, John Waters, John Carpenter and Hammer Films (all of who I am sure must be influences for Alan); toss in Alan’s own Jersey je nais se qua… Alan, of course, plays one of the lead characters, the burly “child”, Beeftina Bullion as well as having directed and produced. The whole thing’s just a mad, gory hoot!

I didn’t get a chance to speak with Alan, tho I hope to sometime this weekend at the festival. I did have the wonderful opportunity to meet Alan several years ago at the premiere of I’ll Bury You Tomorrow at the Darress Theater in Boonton, NJ.

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Featured Location: 1830s Federal Victorian House Location / Montclair, New Jersey | 45953 is currently available as a location for film / video/tv and photo production applications.

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Featured Location: Lakefront Log Mansion - Bergen County, NJ | 45937 is currently available for bookings for use by production for film, video/tv and photo applications.

This location is IN the New York City local film zones, in northwest Bergen County, NJ.

Location Scouting Notes:

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Featured Location: Horse Farm Estate NJ / 175 Acres | 45906 is currently available as a location for film, photo video and possibly, events.

More House Facts

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Following a hard fought battle fending off the threat of elimination via loss of its state funding, the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission (NJFilm) manages to live on, operating, going forward, on a reduced budget of $395,000 per year, as reported by the Star Ledger Online:

“Dear Supporters,

We are pleased to inform you that the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission has been funded for the 2009 Fiscal Year, which began on July 1st.”

…read more…

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New York Times: Getting the Big Picture; The Film Industry Started Here and Left. Now It’s Back, and the State Says the Sequel Is Huge. | By ANDREA KANNAPELL | Published: October 4, 1998

“MERYL STREEP came to Maplewood for ”One True Thing.” Scott Rudin brought Kevin Kline to Montclair for ”In and Out.” Harrison Ford stalked through Newark City Hall in ”Presumed Innocent.” Nicolas Cage and Matt Damon stormed Atlantic City for ”Snake Eyes” and ”Rounders,” respectively. Jim Jarmusch is in Jersey City now, for ”Ghost Dog.” Woody Allen worked at the Jersey City Armory for ”Deconstructing Harry” and in Atlantic City for ”Celebrity”; he is planning to cross the George Washington Bridge again this month for his next project. Norman Jewison will be here, too, to recreate the story of the boxer Hurricane Carter.

They’re all filming.”

…read the rest…

…via Mixed Nuts Productions:

South Jersey Magazine | Coming Soon to a Theater Near You (free registration required)

“…From the pages of South Jersey Magazine…

South Jersey’s picturesque landscape, fertile fields of talent, and unparalleled personality make it big-screen worthy more than you probably know…

…read the rest…

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CNN: Atlantic season’s 1st tropical storm forms near Belize | May 31, 2008

“MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2008 Atlantic season, formed Saturday near the coast of Belize but was already over land and was expected to weaken later in the day, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.”

…read the rest…

More often than not we here in New Jersey get rainy spin-off from tropical storms and hurricanes, in fact if anyone remembers Hurricane Floyd (1999), it did considerable flood damage in the NJ / NYC area - let’s just say I remember being thankful I live on the second floor LOL

…but we DO get the odd hurricane and in fact we get tornadoes from time to time but nothing like down south where I grew up or Oklahoma - AKA “Tornado Alley“.

In any case, a location scout’s duty is to mind the weather, so the fact that Hurricane Season has begun is duly noted.

over and out.

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Unordered List of Northeast U.S. Links of Interest for Location Scouts / Location Managers | These links will likely prove useful to Film / Photo Producers and Production Companies, Film / Video Directors and Photographers as well.

New York City / NY

Connecticut

Philadelphia / Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania

Location Scouts in USA New York/New Jersey / mandy.com film TV services

About Mandy.com:

“Mandy’s International Film & TV Production Directory is published by Lighthouse Internet Ltd.”

…read the rest…

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updated 5/14/2008 | general cleanup / added maps | original timestamp February 10, 2006 at 8:05 pm

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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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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Great Rentals | Long Beach Island vacation rentals New Jersey Home | Description: Welcome to our SUMMER HOUSE

“Exclusive beach community on Long Beach Island, NJ, rated in the top five of the National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s Best Beaches in the USA Poll.

Exclusive, Loveladies, NJ ocean-side home on private lane, 200 feet from private entrance to wide, white sand, ocean beach.”

…read the rest…

A lot of times when I get location research requests or location scouting requests for beach / water front properties, cabins - requests that any vacation type property might be suited for… I’ll check vacation rental websites such as Great Rentals or Vacation Rental By Owner (VRBO); it’s a bit different having a film or photo crew come in and use the property as a film or photo location than it is to rent the place to a family on vacation or per a similar vacation situation - but not SO different …my mileage has varied; some people are interested, some aren’t; really depends on the property owner and the specific circumstance at the time.

Vacation rental listings could also be useful finding lodging for a film or photo crew depending on the area if the production is to take place outside a major metro area - again, a lot depends on the specific circumstances of a given situation.

NY Times | Gone With the Cash: Films Go for the Best Tax Breaks | By Lisa W. Foderaro | Published: March 29, 2008 | White Plains, NY

“Martin Scorsese’s crime drama The Departed may be a paean to the city of Boston, but a number of scenes featuring Leonardo DiCaprio were shot at the county courthouse and library here. It was a surprisingly apt title, since 2007, the year “The Departed” won the Academy Award for Best Picture, was also the year that many film and television shoots departed — for Connecticut.”

…read the rest…

New York State’s 10% vs. neighboring states’ production tax incentives comparison (…via Times article):

note: Pennsylvania offers a 25% max production tax incentive with a state-wide annual cap of $75m per PA Film Office’s Economic Incentives.

Spoiler:

Flip side:

Links of likely further resource value:

Yahoo! Search: film production tax incentives

• NYC.gov - Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Production … |
  … offers a Film Production Tax Credit program, which provides qualifying film and … The incentive applies to qualified production costs for work i. […]
• Incentives - California Film Commission |
  Federal Tax Incentives. California Franchise Tax Board. California Board of Equalization. California Film & Television Tax Credit Program …
• Incentives |
  PRINTABLE APPLICATION FOR NEW JERSEY FILM TAX CREDIT (IN ADOBE PDF FORMAT) … PRODUCTION INCENTIVES FOR FILMING IN NJ” (SCREEN MAGAZINE, 5-08) …

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Ask the Answer B!tch - 1/28/2006:

A.B. Replies: No.

“These days, it’s more reliable to boot up Google Earth, punch in Reese Witherspoon and see what her more enterprising, uh, ‘fans’ have managed to find out about where she lives. With any luck, some drooling Legally Blonde addict has uploaded a nice high-res overlay, and you’ll be able to see whether each of Reese’s kids gets its own infinity pool.”

…read the rest…

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# update 3/24/08 | added map, bio, feed, other cleanup | original timestamp: February 10, 2006 @ 21:15
# 7/12//2008 | more general cleanup

The 2008 Garden State Film Festival will take place April 3rd thru 6th at The Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ. (directions)

Complete film lineup and schedule available on the Garden State Film Festival website

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Baristanet | About Baristanet

“Baristanet was born in May 2004 and soon after emerged as a leader in both hyperlocal blogging and the online citizen journalism movement….

Debbie Galant and Liz George, co-owners and editors of Baristanet, run the site, assisted in great part by daily editor Annette Batson. The biggest contributors to the site are our readers — their active participation has turned Baristanet into a true online community and the destination for breaking local news, airing opinionated views, and yes, poking fun at suburbia whenever possible.”

Montclair is very popular for filming iconic American suburban scenes due to its mostly traditional to contemporary local aesthetic and middle to upper middle class demographic. Montclair’s proximity is well within the local limits of all known NYC film zones and provides relative ease of access from Manhattan by film crews and photo crews. Montclair contains lots of dining options as well as plentiful shopping and other possibly production-related resources in Montclair itself and nearby, its northern New Jersey locale being a densely populated suburban area. The local government is knowledgeable and experienced with regard to dealing with production and filming. The Montclair, NJ Municipal Clerk’s Office oversees film permit applications.

Blogs like Baristanet, Brownstoner or Gothamist are very valuable for location scouting as they will typically contain recent very locally focused news, opinions (and sometimes even facts and often contain local photography useful for visual references of places or properties in the area.

Baristanet

• Montclair Mayor, Fried and Dunked | Monday, 15 September 2008, 11:23 am
  Montclair Mayor Jerry Fried in the dunk tank Sunday Sept 15, 2008 — part of a block-party fundraiser to benefit the children of Monica Paul, murdere. […]
• Inside The Montclarion | Friday, 22 August 2008, 3:42 pm
  Baristanet.com takes you inside the office of The Montclarion - The Student Voice of Montclair State University
• Mista Barista Gets a Haircut | Sunday, 17 August 2008, 5:58 pm
  There are security guards everywhere in Beijing, watching every highway overpass and pedestrian crossing. Many are volunteers, and this one — a barb. […]

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Bill Westheimer is an photo industry associate, long-time photographer and artist residing here in New Jersey.

I am proud to have known Bill for a number of years at this point, which includes having viewed at least one of his public photo / art exhibits and am always impressed with his work and creativity.

I am subscribed to Bill’s monthly newsletter, which I always look forward to reading. I am continually inspired by the content contained within Bill’s newsletters and on his websites.

Bill Westheimer’s Websites:

Thank you Bill, for sharing your art and adventures with us all!

Art of Darkness - Bill Westheimer

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If you were (are?) a fan of the Sopranos (like me!), you might be very interested in this website (The Sopranos on Location) I found which has a theme based on the locations used for filming the aforementioned long-running and award-winning cable-tv series which aired new episodes beginning 1999 till June 2007.

I always liked the show personally and altho I never had the opportunity to work on the show (somebody on their production team called once but the call was interrupted and whatever was to be discussed between us never happened…) the show was always of interest to me professionally (as a location scout), as the majority of their filming locations over the years were in the New York City - northern New Jersey area, often just minutes from my office and places I drive past on a regular basis.

The Sopranos on Location website includes many production photos describing many of the local locations used for filming the show as well as various stories by property owners and fans of the show regarding their encounters with the production.

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Entertainment Law In New Jersey: A Century Of Supporting The Motion Picture Industry

The article is a couple of years old at this point (how did I miss this?) and takes a bit of a “lawyerly” tack at times, but New Jersey Film Office Staff Member Steven Gorelick gives a star performance as interviewee espousing the history of and importance of filmaking to our culture and economy in New Jersey.

“Editor: How is the New Jersey Film Commission helping independent filmmakers get their start?

Gorelick: You’d be surprised how many films at Sundance are from New Jersey. Garden State was a hit this year at Sundance. Clerks and Kevin Smith’s other works have also been well received. Two Family House , which won at Sundance, was filmed in Bayonne and many other films in the competition were shot here. It’s amazing the percentage of Sundance winners and Sundance entrants that are made in New Jersey. The Station Agent won two years ago.”

…read more…

note: above quote snippet taken from interview conducted and published in 2004

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“A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.

via Gothamist and BlueJake:

“Another photographer and I visited the Revere Sugar Refinery on Sunday, the day before real demolition began. We documented the interior of the iconic cone, and explored throughout the buildings in the complex. If you are interested in doing an article about our visit to the place, please contact me. You can see our photos here:

Revere Sugar Refinery photos

Mercurian’s Revere Sugar Refinery photos

Our best shot of Revere can be found at BlueJake.”

You really have to see their photos of the Revere Sugar Refinery to appreciate this post.

I have location scouted this place, as have many other New York City area location scouts over the years since the sugar refinery ceased refining operations. I dont know exactly when it closed for refining business, but it was definitely before my time.

One of the interesting details I remember about the sugar refinery is the sunken ship. I wonder what has/will become of the sunken ship?

I have my OWN photos of the sugar refinery “somewhere” from when I was last there in, maybe like, 1999 (?)

In 1999 most of us still did our location scouting with film cameras and color prints (we are all pretty much all digital now) and when I put my location scouting folder together, like a good location scout, I gave all my photos to the photographer I was working for. The irony is, that same photographer decided to do some spring-cleaning a year or so back and asked me if I wanted their location library (which I was delighted to get, even tho it was three giant banker boxes full of of manila folders and prints!)

…so I have the pics- “somewhere”.

I never went back to the sugar refinery because, maybe a year after the first time I was there I called to make an appointment to location scout it for another job and the cranky old security guard (what was that guy’s name?) He was there just about every day for years.

…but I digress- I called the guy and he told me he wasnt doing any more location scout tours, the location scouts “wasted all his time and never booked shoots there” (like he had somewhere else to be?)

Anyway after that I wrote off the sugar refinery as a waste of research time and never called them again although I did hear, sometime later, maybe earlier in 2006(?), that the sugar refinery was tourable and shootable.

All of which is pretty much moot; according to Jake Dobkin, “The iconic dome of Red Hook’s Revere Sugar Refinery will probably disappear sometime in the next couple of weeks.”

…which is a shame to a location scout like myself- We location scouts survive by continually being able to pull visually interesting places such as the sugar refinery out of our hats for film directors and photographers; so, a landmark such as the Revere Sugar Refinery being demolished always makes my job just a little harder.

It’s been a tough past year or so… Admittedly, my vision of the state-of-affairs-for-old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City is skewed :

Another Red Hook icon, The New York Shipyard, went away in 2005. I blogged about it here.

There was a BIG, very suspicious fire in Greenpoint this past summer that took a significant portion of the Greenpoint Terminal.

Sometimes you just want a little grunge in your life!

St Francis Hospital in Jersey City, NJ didnt really fall into the category of “old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City”, in fact, it was pretty convincing for a film location as a modern hospital. Saint Francis Hospital was recently sold to real estate developers. Reportedly it will be demolished and condos built in it’s place.

LOL

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