The Scenic Route: Historic Filming Locations of Utah

Author(s): Anali Rappleye

Year: 2020

Summary

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Utah has been a home to the Hollywood film industry since the 1920s. The unique landscape has provided the film industry with awe-inspiring options for creating iconic scenes in television and movies production. The Utah Division of State History’s Antiquities Section has identified the shooting locations of 570 films and counting. This research has identified temporal trends in the industry from including the change of location preference to shifts in movie genres, such as the early dominance of Westerns to comedies, horror, and drama. These early locations are now a part of the archaeological record as sets have been abandoned and forgotten. It is important to know where these film sites are in order to properly understand the full context and history of a space.

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The Scenic Route: Historic Filming Locations of Utah. Anali Rappleye. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457311)

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Keywords

General
Film Landscape Sets

Geographic Keywords
United States of America

Temporal Keywords
1894 to Present

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 426