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| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
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Opening Scene Approach
to Temple
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Kauai, Hawaii,
USA |
The Swing into
the river is Hulei'a Stream and can be visited
by local tours.
Menehune Fishpond is another river that was
apparently filmed. |
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Temple
Interior |
Elstree
Studios
Stage Four
London, England |
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Barnett Lecture
Hall |
Rickmansworth Masonic
School
Hertfordshire, England |
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Barnett Meeting
Room |
San Rafael, Marin
County |
Some of the college
scenes were said to have been shot at Dominican
College, but there is no official confirmation
of this. |
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Indy's House
(Exterior) |
San Anselmo, Marin
County |
Apparently, Indiana
Jones' house was filmed near Drake High School. |
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Indy's House
(Interior) |
Unknown |
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Flying
Boat Dock |
San
Francisco |
Actually
a composite shot of a Treasure Island, San Francisco
pier combined with a shot of the plane combined
with a matte painting background. The plane
was in a Junk Yard a the time - Note, the Short
Solent Mark III flying boat is now at The Western
Aerospace Museum at Oakland Int'l Airport. Click
Here to find out more about the flying boat. |
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Raven
Bar |
Elstree
Studios
Stage Two
London, England |
The
outside of the Bar is actually depicted by a
matte painting. 3 |
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Sallah's House
Market Street Scenes
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Kairouan, Tunisia |
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Imam's
House |
Elstree
Studios
Stage Two
London, England |
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Tanis
Digs
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Tozeur,
Tunisia |
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Map
room |
Elstree
Studios
Stage Five
London, England |
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Well
of souls |
Elstree
Studios
Stage Three
London, England |
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Flying
Wing |
Tunisia |
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Truck
Chase |
Tunisia |
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Bantu
Wind & Nazi Submarine
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La
Rochelle, France |
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Bantu Wind Cabin |
Elstree Studios
London, England |
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Nazi Island Base
(below) |
Marin Island
California, USA |
This shot is seen
through the periscope of the Nazi Sub and incorporated
in the final Ark scenes. |
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Nazi Submarine
Hideout |
La Rochelle, France |
An actual German
U-Boat holding pen from WWII |
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Ark of the Covenant
procession |
Tunisia |
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Ark Altar |
Elstree Studios
Stage One |
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Government meeting
office |
Rickmansworth Masonic
School
Hertfordshire, England |
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Government Warehouse |
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Matte Painting |
| Temple of Doom |
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Club Obiwan Dancing |
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Club Obiwan Fighting |
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Car Chase Shanghai |
Macou |
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Shanghai Airport |
Novato
Marin County, CA |
The airport where
Indiana Jones boarded Lao Che's airplane was
at Hamilton Air Force Base, east of the Ignacio
section of Novato. |
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Tri-Motor Fuselage |
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Mammoth Mountain
Ski Area, Mono County, CA |
The escape from
the crashing airplane was filmed over the mountains. |
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River Rafting |
American River
Placerville,
El Dorado County, CA |
The river rafting
scene in was filmed on the American River |
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Indian Village |
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Travel to Pankot |
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Pankot Palace Dining
Room |
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Temple
of Kali |
Elstree
Studios
London, England |
Very
elaborate set |
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Mine car chase |
Elstree Studios
London, England |
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Rope
Bridge |
Just
north of Kandy, Sri Lanka |
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Rope
Bridge |
England |
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Rope
Bridge |
Grand
Coulee Dam Grand Coulee
Grant County, WA |
Resides
above the Columbia River and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lake. |
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Village |
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| Last Crusade |
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Opening
Scene
Utah Desert/Canyons |
Arches
National Park, near Moab, Utah |
The
opening scene takes place around some well known
landmarks in Arches
National Park, including Double Arch. |
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Train
Scene |
Colorado
and New Mexico |
The
train sequence was filmed on the Cumbres
and Toltec Scenic Railway, which runs between
New Mexico and Colorado. The C&TSRR is North
America's longest and highest narrow-gauge,
steam-powered railroad.1 |
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Boat
off Portuguese coast |
Exterior
Tank
Elstree Studios
London, England |
A unique
part of the studio. This mammoth room has a
400,000 gallon capacity. |
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College
Lecture Hall |
Rickmansworth
Masonic School
Hertfordshire, England |
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Irene's
office |
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Indy's
Office |
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College
Campus |
Rickmansworth
Masonic School
Hertfordshire, England |
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Donovan's
Apartment |
Elstree
Studios, London, England |
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Henry's
House |
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U.S.
Airport |
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Venice
Pier |
Venice
Italy |
Exact
location not known, but it does look like the
pier the train stations where one picks up a
Vaporetto (A Boat Bus) |
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Venice
Library |
Venice,
Italy |
The
exterior of this Church/Library is the Church
of San Barnaba in Venice, in the vicinity of
St. Mark's Square. |
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Venice
Catacombs |
Elstree
Studios London, England |
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Venice
Boat Chase |
Tilbury
Docks in Essex, England |
"Go between them,
are you crazy!"
That is stuntman Jim Dowdall
performing on location for the boat explosion
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Venice
Apartment |
The
Danieli Hotel
Venezia, Italy
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70
kilometers from Venice |
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Castle
Brunwald
(Exterior)
|
Germany |
The
Brunwald castle exterior was an actual castle
in Germany, but Lucasfilm was only allowed to
film the exterior |
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Castle
Brunwald
(Interior)
|
Elstree
Studios |
All
of the interior shots were filmed at Cannon
/ EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood.
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Motorcycle
Chase |
Mount
Tamalpais State Park
Marin County, California |
Filmed
on some of the roads of Mount Tamalpais, but
with a lot of greens added to make it look like
Germany. |
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Berlin
Book Burning Scene |
Stowe
School
Buckingham, England |
The
filming took place on the North front. |
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German
Airport Exterior |
San
Francisco |
The
airport terminal was filmed at the rainbow-shaped
city building at the corner of Avenue of Palms
and California Avenue on Treasure Island. |
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German
Airport Interior |
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German
Airport Airstrip |
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Zeppelin
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Elstree Studios
London, England
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The
interior of the Zeppelin was a set created for
the film- the extrerior was a computer graphic
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Airplane
fighting |
Majocar,
Spain |
Complex aerial scenes involving
a Nazi Fighter plane were orchestrated on
an abandoned airfield near Majocar, a small
village near Almeria (near to the mediterranean
coast).
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Car
chase |
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Beach
Scene |
May
have been filmed in Majocar, Spain. |
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Iskenderun
Palace |
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Iskenderun |
Guadix
Station, Granada, Spain |
This
railway station was transformed into the middle
eastern town of Iskenderun, complete with camels,
goats, market sellers, beggars, and women with
yashmaks. |
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Tank
Chase |
Almeria,
Spain |
Indy's
encounter, on horseback, with a Nazi tank was
filmed on a dry river bed. |
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Grail
Temple Exterior & Ending |
Petra,
Jordan |
This
structure, the Khazneh or "treasury",
was carved out of the rock wall by the Nabateans
who inhabited Petra from 600 B.C. to 100 A.D.
The slot canyon area where Indy, Henry, and
Sallah ride on horseback is thge entrance to
Petra and is known as the Siq |
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Grail
Temple Interior |
Elstree
Studios
London, England |
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"Riding
off into the sunset" scene (credits) |
Near
Amarillo, Texas |
The
film commission confirmed it was shot at the
"Figure 3 ranch" near Clyde, Texas, which is
near Amarillo. |