jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty) (02/13/85)
> > And then there is "The Graduate" which supposedly takes place > partially in Berkeley..However, all the "UCBerkeley" campus scenes > were really filmed at the University of Southern California. and > in the scene where Dustin Hoffman is driving his little red convertible > over the bridge to Berkeley to see his girlfriend...he is really driving > west over the Bay Bridge, towards SF and away from Berkeley... Because of that scene, I have permanently affixed in my mind that part of *The Graduate* took place in SF. Every time I see the film I ask "did they cut the part where he's in San Francisco?" BTW, there are some very short shots (about 30 seconds total screen time) of Sather Gate and surrounding areas in the film. Also the "library" scene looks like the interior of Doe, but it could probably be part of USC. As long as we're talking about Berkeley, in *Colossus, The Forbin Project*, the project's headquarters were discribed as being "on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific." Well, sorta. The helecopter shots of the "complex" were really of Lawerence Berkeley Labs up the hill from the main campus. It actually overlooks San Francisco Bay but if you look far enough, past the Golden Gate, you can see the Pacific. The exterior for the actual "headquarters building" was the just completed (and at the time unopened) Lawerence Hall of Science. Even though I saw the film when it first opened, I liked enough to go to a special screening of it held at Lawerence Hall years later. Of course, every time a scene showing the Hall came on the entire place broke out in whoops and hollers! It was eerie watching the actors walking around places that you knew were just beyond that wall or window. You almost expected to hear footsteps! -- Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh