Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Almost Exhausted the List of Easily-Obtained Films for My Albuquerque Filming Locations Atlas

I've been tallying filming locations for my Albuquerque Filming Locations Atlas (see sidebar) for 15 months now. I've identified 362 films for tracking. 230 of these films have been scanned (about 64% of the total number of titles - nearly two thirds of the total), yielding 1,377 filming locations. It's getting progressively harder to add films to the Atlas now, because suitable ABQ-based films are either:

1.) Unavailable;
2.) Available, but at a high cost;
3.) Never got distributed in the first place, so exceedingly-scarce now;
4.) Made-for-TV movies that are locked away in a vault somewhere;
5.) Brand new and haven't been issued yet; or
6.) Some combination of the above.


I'll be talking about my Atlas at the SWPACA conference in Albuquerque in February. I want to have some fun with it. In particular, I want to make some YouTube videos regarding how different film teams use the same filming locations. Also, I want to present odd or comic moments in Albuquerque cinema. I guess there is an amorphous entity called Albuquerque cinema after all, it's just difficult to fully appreciate it.

So, for the moment, very few new films to add.

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