Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 31, 1990, p. 7

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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Much Page Travel Outlook Movie industry owes a lot to travel The Academy Awards ought to have a new category An Oscar for the movie that best depicts the ex perience of travel Not those travelogues that were popular a generation or two ago but dramatic films that arouse the au diences special interest in the set ting the country the city the hotel in the mode of travel or in the adventure of getting from one place to another Where would the movie industry be without such films without for example the countless pictures that involve travel by rail As long ago as Dec 1895 an audience in Paris attended the premiere of a pioneering film with a less than catchy title The Ar rival of a Train in the Station of Le Reports said that the cinemagoers cringed in fear at the sight of the approaching locomotive on the screen Passenger trains have been the setting for some of the great classics of film drama such as Shanghai Express 1932 starring Marlene Dietrich Aldred Hit chcocks Strangers on a Train and Murder on the Orient Express made in 1974 set in If it were not for the influence of that last named film its unlikely that present day travellers would be clamoring to pay sky high fares to travel on the revived Orient Ex press between London and Venice AT THE STATION Railway stations too have been central to some memorable movies including The Clock at which Judy Garland and Robert Walker met in New Yorks Grand Central Station in 1944 and Brief Encounter 1946 set in a bleak rural English where Trevor Howard encountered Johnson briefly To turn from those somewhat Vince Travel lugubrious plot lines lets consider the success of hit movies of the 1930s that featured the nimble feet of Fred in such glamourous locales as New York London Venice and Rio Janeiro With those graceful sophisticated images firmly in mind the moviegoer was not only eager to visit those cities but also shielded from their harsh reality for a time at least V Clothing ens todies Childrens 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Having assuaged the urge to see the City of Light anyone who had seen Alfred Hitchcocks To Catch a Thief would surely be drawn to the French Riviera and Monaco to follow in the elegant footsteps of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant CITY BY THE BAV A great director Hitchcock had a special talent for choosing backdrops that contributed strong ly to the flow of his films For three of his productions his choice was the San Francisco Bay area and crowds of travellers still flock to the specific settings featured in those films made decades ago Shadow of a Doubt featured a twostorey Italianate house at McDonald Ave in San ta Rosa near the Sonoma County vineyards north of the citv by thei bay And with The Birds Hitchcock made a shrine of the near the coastal village of Bodega Bay not far from the town of Santa Rosa Vertigo was set In the steep hills of San Francisco itself Hitchcock had his costars James Stewart and Kim Novak meet at or near such famed attractions as the Palace of the Legion of Honor the Palace of Fine Arts Fort Point Coit Tower and the redwood stands at Muir Woods across the Golden Gate Bridge Some other scenes of Vertigo were filmed in the grand old Fair mont Hotel which stands in lordly splendor at the pinnacle of Nob Hill near the heart of San Francisco A favorite not only of movie directors but of countless travellers as well the Fairmont has been featured in several other major productions Kiss Them for Me 1957 with Grant Petulia 1968 with Julie Christie Towering Inferno with Chariton and Midnight Lace 1980 with Dons Day to name only a few Its clear that the movies and the experience of travel both rely heavily on dreams and fantasy When everything goes as it should both can leave us spellbound Thomson News Service HALTON HILLS COLLISION ACTON ONT OFFICE MAGIC 877 FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE STATIONERY NEEDS St Georgetown POSSIBLY THE WORLDS BEST BARB OUE CHICKEN FRIES HONOLULU SPECIAL 8 5 Complete Quarter J Chicken Dinner 232 GUELPH ST 8731646 MON SAT 11 SUN 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