How Location Scouts Find The Places That Look Like Somewhere Else

From Gizmodo:

For filmmakers, Los Angeles is basically infinite. It is a mega-city that contains every other city within itâ€"indeed, seemingly every other Earthly landscape is hidden somewhere in plain sightâ€"whether it's a street that looks like Manhattan or a county park that literally looks like another world. In Los Angeles, something as simple as an empty parking lot can be transformed into a virtual window, a portal or gate through which film or TV crews can pull distant visions of another location. Around that corner could be Chicago, London, or even Seoul.Read more...

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