As you come up the stairway (in the upper left hand corner of the floor plan) into the upper hall, John-Boy’s bedroom is straight ahead the boys’ bedroom is on the right, then the bathroom and finally the girls’ bedroom. "The upper floor of the Walton home presented an interesting lesson in budget accountability. Ralph senensky, the director of "The Cradle" (s2-ep19) explains below. Only the beds and dressers were changed depending on the scene. For filming and budget purposes though the the same set was used as the girl's and parents bedroom. This puts the middle window into question, which room does it belong to? The obvious answer would be that the middle window belongs to the girls room. The parent's room by most signs would occupy the space behind the upper window on the right. The boys bedroom (which is rarely depicted on the show) is located at the back portion of the house. John-Boy's bedroom is located behind the upper window on the left of the house. The parent's bedroom also doubled as the girl's bedroom. The unorthodox interior angles of the downstairs Kitchen and living room is sometimes apparent when the camera looks towards the 2 walls where the radio and piano are placed from the perspective of the kitchen.Īnother production irregularity is the layout of the second floor.
#Cloudburst filming location movie#
Most likely this was not a character driven idea that John Walton had thought of when he built the home but a production motivated idea to allow more room and depth for the actors and movie camera. Looking at the floorplan for the interior set and you would realize that this is not as it seems. Looking at the outside of the home you would think that the Walton home was a typical rectangular shape with a few addtions added on for the mudroom and the grandparents flat. The Walton house interiors were filmed on Stage 26. These photos are from the reconstructed set from the reunion show. When they filmed inside the living room, a giant painted backdrop of trees might be glimpsed through the lace curtains. The porch existed on stage 26 and on the back lot. Some of these walls can be removed or added to allow different camera angles and perspectives in which to tell the story.Ībove is a portion of the Walton's porch that was built for the reunion movies. Looking behind these sets you can see the fake walls from the back side of a interior set. While the Waltons was a drama and didn't allow for a live audience you can see how the lack of a forth wall for each room in the house allowed for the cameras ands crew to easily film scenes. Once again it is built inside a sound stage.Ībove a studio audience can be seen during the filming of I Love Lucy.
Seen above is the home that was used for The Munsters. This allowed scenes to flow from the porch into the interior of the house. THe Walton house also had an exterior facade that was built on the front of the first floor set. The exterior of the Green Acres house which was filmed inside a studio. It also allows the production to control unwanted sounds and other distractions that can interfere with the production. Interior locations are typically built on sound stages so that there is enough space for the cameras, crew, lights, actors and action.
Ranch where the Baldwin sisters home is located and whichin also the current location of the Walton Farm house after is was relocated from the main lot in 1995. The infamous Hollywood Sign is located on the southern side of the same range.ġ/2 a mile to the north the the main Warner Bros Studio facility in the Warner Bros. Just to the south of the Studio is a mountainous range of the Hollywood Hills that played the role of Walton's Mountain. The exterior of the Walton house and Ike Godsey's Mercantile and Drucilla's Pond were located on the backlot just to the east of the Stages in an area known as the Jungle set.
#Cloudburst filming location series#
Studio which was known during the original series as The Burbank Studios. Interiors for The Waltons were filmed on Stage 26 and Stage 20 of The Warner Bros. Collected below is an extensive explanation of how and where the production company brought these scenes to life. Not only made good use of interior sets that were filmed on sound stages but quite a bit of the show's drama took place in exterior locations as well. Trying to film scenes that take place in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains of rural Virginia might seem like a bit of a challenge in the middle of Hollywood, California but that is what Movie makers specialize at, making magic happen.
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