The West Wing carts all have the Presidential Seal on them! |
Lots of sets were in storage on big carts. Click in closer to see what this set was from... |
If you look closely, you can see fake bricks plastered onto the wood. Movie and TV sets are all just flats like this. |
Dark Alley set. You saw it in Batman and Spider-Man, and countless other movies. |
The Town Square. It used to be Hazzard County Courthouse from "The Dukes of Hazzard." They were setting up a "church" nearby for a shoot. |
A foam gravestone, stored in one of the old west buildings. |
DRAW! Dad faces off outside the Old West Saloon. |
The Saloon is one of very few backlot buildings that have actual insides to them. |
There's a real bar inside! |
We went up the stairs to the balcony. John Wayne shot a lot of guys here... |
But when you go into the upstairs rooms, they just turn out to be hallways. |
Follow the hallways and you end up in a maze upstairs. |
The stairs lead to the BALCONY!!! |
From the balcony, you can see the whole "town." |
In the background you can see the couthouse/bank/richest man in town's house. |
Back down the stairs. It was windy and we kept hearing spooky doors slamming. Like a real ghost town. |
We got freaked out by this cat outside the window. Turns out there are cats living all over the backlot. |
Back in the Saloon, Dad poses on the balcony. |
More wild kittys. |
We roamed past the soundstages. People were building sets inside. |
The soundstages all have big plaques on them listing famous movies that were filmed inside. |
"West Wing" currently shoots in one of them. |
This one was where "Christmas Vacation" was filmed, one of Dad's favorite Christmas flicks. |
That was it for our tour! Hope you enjoyed this look inside the WB Backlot! |