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Florida Film Focus

C By Yuyan Guo and Nick Nimkoff
entral Florida. To most tourists, the name is equivalent to Disney World and Universal Studios, but the city encompasses so much more. While these amusement
parks entice enormous crowds every day, Orlando and surrounding areas have attracted the film industry as well. While Orlando is nowhere near the size of Hollywood when it
comes to productions, there are more than a few places one will recognize from popular movies. Not only does Universal Studios provide extensive facilities for filmmaking,
plenty of other establishments, ancient and modern, serve as beautiful scenes for exciting storylines. From the outskirts of Kissimmee to Orlando’s own city hall, Central Florida
is ripe with notable backdrops for a variety of films.

(Above) Star Wars is uniquely detailed because the newer movies have such a well established and
publically known base. Despite spanning the entire universe, the films show out of this world de-
tails on everything from Clone Trooper armor and weapons to characters themselves. All photos
by Nick Nimkoff.
(Above) Disney’s Hollywood Studios was originally used
as a real movie studio when it first opened. However,
due to the overwhelming tourist noise, the working mov-
ie studio aspect was retired. Nonetheless, Hollywood
Studios is still identical to various sites across Holly-
wood. The arguably most iconic building in the park is
the one to one replica of the Grauman's Chinese Thea-
tre. The theater has been a part of the park since it
opened in 1989. The building once housed a popular mov-
ie themed ride behind the Chinese exterior. However,
there are plans to replace the Great Movie Ride with a
brand new ride themed to Mickey Mouse instead.
(Left) Universal Studios Orlando, like most other theme
parks, draws from characters, themes, and plotlines
from a variety of movies. This holds true with the Men
in Black: Alien Attack Ride. Those who have waited in
line for the ride know that the line itself is intricately
decorated. The interior includes a fake elevator, various
windows depicting aliens in their office habitat, and the
central command hub for the Men in Black organization.
Anyone interested in taking a behind the scenes tour of
the out of this world ride can see the aliens under the
line catwalk by telling a worker that he would like to take
an, “Immigration Tour” after the ride.

(Left) Children and adults alike,
regardless of whether born in the
1970s, 90s, or 2000; have grown
attached to both the characters
and iconic props of this epic outer
space series. One of the largest
props used in the Star Wars films
is the ship that, “Made the Kessel
Run in less than 12 parsecs:” The
Millennium Falcon. The ship has
become synonymous with the rebel
alliance and the new republic. The
ship was centrally used in the orig-
inal Star Wars movies and has
been more recently reprised in the
last movie, The Force Awakens.
Visitors can see a scale model of
one of the fastest ships in the
galaxy at Disney’s Star Wars
Launch Bay. Guests can see vari-
ous props as well.

Florida Film Focus,

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