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Two years ago<\/a>, I linked to a website \u2014 no longer working, alas \u2014 which showed a high-speed drive through Paris from two parallel points of view: one, the short film C\u2019\u00e9tait un rendez-vous<\/a><\/i> (1976), shot from within the speeding vehicle itself; and two, a growing line on a Google Map.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I link to something more complicated in concept but simpler in execution. This site<\/a> has tracked down all the places in San Francisco where the famous car chase from Bullitt<\/a><\/i> (1968) was shot, and this site<\/a> highlights all those locations on a Google Maps satellite image, like so:<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

It would seem the cars magically hopped all over the city in mid-chase. But this is nothing new, of course; the Thom Anderson documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself<\/a><\/i> (2003) highlights a number of cases where films made and set in L.A. have thrown geographical specificity to the winds, and I remember getting a kick out of the bizarre path taken during a sort-of chase sequence in Ice Cube\u2019s Are We There Yet?<\/a><\/i> (2005), which begins on the Canadian border and continues all over downtown Vancouver.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it\u2019s fun to have all the real-life locations mapped out like this. And just for reference\u2019s sake, here is the chase itself:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NKg27i5Y3T4<\/a>
Click here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip<\/a> to Scott Von Doviak at The Screengrab.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"