Location Scout + Location Manager R. Richard Hobbs
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Recently, I was hired to location scout in Hoboken, NJ for an upcoming UK tv program and it was an opportunity for me to explore an interesting city I have lived within 20 minutes or so of for about 15 years but never really spent much time in, other than to pass thru on the NJ Transit train to get to the PATH train, (which runs under the Hudson River) to travel into New York City.
Besides being chock full of local NYC area history and home and birthplace to many interesting people (including Frank Sinatra), Hoboken has somewhat recently morphed from a gritty harbor town into an elegant urban enclave- but with enough of the gritty edges left over to maintain a contrast of lifestyles and visual texture.
A few interesting facts about Hoboken (with a little help and thanks to The Hoboken Museum, Wikipedia, IMDB and other resources):
The name Hoboken is derived from the Dutch word, “Hoebuck,” meaning “high bluff.”
Hoboken is known as the “Mile Square Town”; if you look at a map of the town you will see that it is laid out pretty much in a neat square shape. BTW, here’s another map of Hoboken.
Hoboken’s institute of higher learning, Stevens Institute of Technology, is named after patriot Colonel John Stevens, Colonial Treasurer of New Jersey and later innovative inventor. The college is located on the bluff which rises sharply up from the Hudson River’s edge, and is one of the many bluffs in the area from which the town name was derived.
The Academy Award-winning movie, “On The Waterfront“, starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan and which premiered in 1954, was filmed in Hoboken.
American baseball was “born” in Hoboken! this from the Hoboken Baseball website:
“On 19 June 1846, the first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.”
View a Flickr slideshow of Hoboken
Recently, I was hired to location scout in Hoboken, NJ for an upcoming UK tv program and it was an opportunity for me to extensively explore an interesting city I have lived within 15 or 20 minutes of for about 15 years but had never really spent much time prior to my location scouting expedition. …read more - tinyurl.com/2j87xb
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1 Sinatra Drive Hoboken, NJ, which runs north and south along the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ is nowadays lined with genteel condos, bistros and shops, a contrast to the area’s history in that at, one time, it was a bustling, rough, rugged shipping wharf.
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Sinatra Drive, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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15 Monroe St in Hoboken, NJ, birthplace of Frank Sinatra, circa Summer, 2006. The building where Frank Sinatra was born burned down some years ago and there is now a vacant lot there. Next door is an homage museum to Sinatra, named "From Here to Eternity", but it is closed, I was told the owner of the museum had recently passed away.
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Frank Sinatra Birthplace 15 Monroe St, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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1 Hoboken Train Station
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Hoboken Train station, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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1 Church Square Park Hoboken, NJ
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Church Square Park, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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3 Hoboken Castle Point Pier on the Hudson River with the NYC skyline in the background.
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Near Castle Point Pier, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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IMG_4522 Hoboken near Castle Point Pier on the Hudson River, The Verrazano Bridge can be seen further downriver in the south end of New York Harbor.
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Frank Sinatra Drive near Castle Point Pier, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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4 Hoboken Castle Point Pier on the Hudson River with the NYC skyline in the background.
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Castle Point Pier, Hoboken, NJ [?]
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2 Hoboken near Castle Point Pier on the Hudson River with the NYC skyline in the background.
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The New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB) recently announced a new online film permit system to be implemented in the near future as well as interactive training sessions offered free of charge for the purpose of assisting location scouts, location managers and other production professionals to become familiar with using the new system.
The New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB) | MOFTB Introduces Online Permits with Interactive Training Sessions | February 1, 2008
“With the launch of the new online permit system in the coming weeks, the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting is conducting free training sessions for our customers.
The online permit technology boasts a step by step, user friendly interface that allows customers to apply for film and television scouting, rigging and shooting permits electronically. Beginning in February, the MOFTB will conduct various training sessions in an effort to familiarize our customers with the new online permit format.”
Yahoo! Search: New York City MOFTB online permits
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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 training session, Lake Mead, NV - Jo Van Hove instructs Q-spheres Team Members
View Q-spheres Nevada Photoset on Flickr
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Update 7/2/2008 | A short clip from MoonCake, a short film by Marty Stanos, is available on Youtube (below). Marty is obviously very busy these days shopping and showing the film.
The Lot “is a wrap”.
Sometimes talent and inspiration shines as this video on thelot.com does.
The short film, shot in film noir-ish black and white, is titled Moon Cake and was directed and produced by University of Michigan film student Marty Stano. The film is set to a catchy obscure pop song the title and band I have not yet been able to place other than a comment for the film that alludes to a bootleg record called Rabbit’s Moon, all of which adds to the intrigue.
The film was produced for less than $500 and it’s like a train wreck- I cant look away! I delight in replaying the video over and over! It’s this grungy avant-gard wonderful five minute, forty-five second bit of film wack and it’s just lots of fun to watch.
The Lot is a new tv joint by reality tv kingpin Mark Burnett and producer-director Steven Speilberg (who needs no introduction) whereby filmmakers submit films online for consideration for a $1 mil development deal prize with Dreamworks.
The Lot has been all the chatter recently over on the Wheresspot Board, wherein a number of participants have submitted film projects to The Lot.
Update 3/1: Music mystery solved :-)- The song is It Came in the Night by Andy Arthurs/A Raincoat from around circa 1976. This page pretty much tells it all. Also, see a reference to the music used in this video here.
Update 3/5: Up to now proving ignorance of certain aspects of film school curriculum, it has come to my attention that the music used in Moon Cake is the same score used in one release of director Kenneth Anger’s classic avant-gard short film, Rabbit’s Moon.
Anecdote: There have been several releases of Rabbit’s Moon, the most recent release, on The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One, in fact uses a number of ’50’s doo-wop titles as the score for Rabbit’s Moon.
I know all these things now because the intrigue compelled me to order the The Films of Kenneth Anger, Volume One DVD online to check out Rabbit’s Moon!
The Japanese folklore of the Rabbit In The Moon, (the view from Earth of the surface of the Moon is different in the far east than that visible in the western hemisphere and to many resembles a rabbit- part of the celebration of this lore is having children put out rice cakes for the rabbit;-) is present in many areas of film and music around the world including a house music trio from Tampa, FL named Rabbit In The Moon.
There are certainly similarities in the style of cinematography used in Marty Stano’s Moon Cake and Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon, in fact, now having more background about both films I daresay Moon Cake draws a heavy influence from Rabbit’s Moon, but dont feel the results have been presented in a way that could be construed as plagiarist or improper. Instead, I might suggest that Moon Cake pays tribute to Rabbit’s Moon in a very flattering way.
Now, all of a sudden I’m a film reviewer- and here I thought I was just a location scout 
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