Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try Old Mt. Nebo Cemetery in Bond County, Illinois. The graves date from the early 1800's to around the turn of the century. One or two are later as older family members died. It is in a grove, a couple (3) old cypress trees towering. There used to be a wooden church, but some coon-hunters burned it down accidentally when they started a fire to warm themselves. There was an old piano (half rotten) in there. It was eerie. It's surround by trees on three sides, I think, ... at least 2 and there is a dirt road leading up to it across a field. It used to be very unkept, but someone watches over it a little now. Bond county is ... damned if I remember, about 60 miles east of St. Louis on Interstate 70. The closest town is Greenville. I have some shots somewhere at home, but I won't be there for over a week. Daniel On Mon, 19 May 2003, Johnny Deadman wrote: > Hi all > > Off topic so apologies but this is the kind of thing you guys are good > at. > > I am looking for a location to shoot a movie in. It needs to be in the > US or Canada. We need a decent sized, atmospheric cemetery, kind of > tumbledown and unkempt, with a good variety of graves (mainly late > nineteenth and early 20th century preferably). It should have a load of > trees and ideally a sightline to a road and a place where a shack could > be built. It's going to be standing in for the Ozarks but location is > not too important. > > The ones we've been looking at so far include the Ross Bay cemetery in > Victoria, BC and the Toronto Necropolis. However the best visually I > have seen so far is the Bagdad cemetery in Pensacola, FA > > http://www.filmnorthflorida.com/locations/Bagdad:-Cemetery > > I would be really grateful for tips for any other cemteries that people > may know about, especially if people have pictures of them. At this > point we're not even worrying about whether we could get permission to > shoot in them. We'll deal with that later. Please mail offlist to: > > <john@johnbrownlow.com> > > > Thanks in advance for any help... > > -- > John Brownlow > > pictures: > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > warblog: > http://www.unintended-consequences.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html