Film locations in Sonoma County, California

Film locations in Sonoma County, California are a diverse set of sites throughout this California county, where all or parts of notable motion pictures have been produced. Due to the scenic and varied aspects of Sonoma County, a large number of films have been made within this County. Some of the earliest U.S. filmmaking occurred in Sonoma County such as the 1914 production 1914 Salomy Jane and Bronco Billy Anderson produced in 1915. Many of these films are classics in American cinematography such as the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, starring Joseph Cotten and Loretta Young, and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds produced in 1963, which was also partially filmed in adjacent Marin County. Many other more modern classics have used Sonoma County as a filming venue, including the 1990 production of the Flatliners and the 1992 film Basic Instinct. A few of the other representative films produced partially in Sonoma County are:

Representative film locations

Sonoma County has hosted several major motion picture films:

Bodega

Cazadero

Cloverdale

Cotati

Glen Ellen

Healdsburg

Occidental

  • 1993 Nowhere to Run - Taylor Lane and Occidental with farmhouse and pond scenes.

Penngrove

Petaluma

  • 1984 Impulse - Farm sequences filmed in Petaluma.
  • 1987 Howard the Duck Flight scenes with Petaluma Bridge.
  • 1997 " Inventing The Abbotts " Downtown scenes. They brought in a snow machine.
  • 1999 True Crime - The Washoe House restaurant on Stony Point Road
  • See also: Petaluma

Rohnert Park

Russian River

  • 1914 Salomy Jane - Guerneville, Monte Rio (also Marin County, near Mount Tamalpais).
  • 1925 Braveheart - Along the river.
  • 1942 Holiday Inn - Village Inn Lodge in Monte Rio as the "Holiday Inn" with tons of artificial snow.

Sebastopol

Santa Rosa See: Santa Rosa, California#Film locations

Sonoma

  • 1973 American Graffiti - Schellville along Highway 121 between Napa and Petaluma.[2]
  • 1978 Magic of Lassie - Hop Kiln Winery.
  • 1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Sonoma (also Oakland, San Bruno, San Francisco, and Marin).
  • 1996 Scream - Sonoma Community Center on East Napa Street.[3]
  • 2001 The Animal - Sonoma City Hall as Police Headquarters; Historic Plaza.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Flatliners filming locations
  2. ^ "Behind the Scenes of American Graffiti". PETALUMA CELEBRATES AMERICAN GRAFFITI. http://www.american-graffiti-salute.com/movie_behind-the-scenes.html. Retrieved 2006-10-24. 
  3. ^ Stack, Peter (1996-12-20). "FILM REVIEW -- Satirical `Scream' Is Out for Blood -- and Lots of It". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/12/20/DD42123.DTL. Retrieved 2007-01-27.