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The Indiana Jones Geography Crusade


This section lists the locations associated with Indy's adventures, and conveniently matches up the actual production locations. The scenes have been arranged chronologically for each movie. Please note that this is not necessarily indicative of the order of actual production filming schedule. If you have any contributions, feel free to send them: info@indygear.com



Film: Scene: Location: Details:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Opening Scene Opening Scene Approach to Temple
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.
  Temple Interior Elstree Studios
Stage Four
London, England
3
  Barnett Lecture Hall Rickmansworth Masonic School
Hertfordshire, England
3
  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.
  Indy's House
(Exterior)
San Anselmo, Marin County Apparently, Indiana Jones' house was filmed near Drake High School.
  Indy's House
(Interior)
Unknown  
  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.
  Raven Bar Elstree Studios
Stage Two
London, England
The outside of the Bar is actually depicted by a matte painting. 3
  Sallah's House
Market Street Scenes
Kairouan, Tunisia  
  Imam's House Elstree Studios
Stage Two
London, England
3
Tunisia Tanis Digs
Tozeur, Tunisia  
Map Room Map room Elstree Studios
Stage Five
London, England
3
Well of Souls Well of souls Elstree Studios
Stage Three
London, England
3
Flying Wing Tunisia  
Truck Chase Tunisia  
Bantu Wind & Nazi Submarine
La Rochelle, France  
  Bantu Wind Cabin Elstree Studios
London, England
 
  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.
Sub Hideout Nazi Submarine Hideout La Rochelle, France An actual German U-Boat holding pen from WWII
  Ark of the Covenant procession Tunisia  
  Ark Altar Elstree Studios
Stage One
3
  Government meeting office Rickmansworth Masonic School
Hertfordshire, England
3
"Some place very safe" Government Warehouse   Matte Painting
Temple of Doom
  Club Obiwan Dancing    
  Club Obiwan Fighting    
  Car Chase Shanghai Macou  
  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.
  Tri-Motor Fuselage    
    Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, Mono County, CA The escape from the crashing airplane was filmed over the mountains.
River Rafting River Rafting American River Placerville,
El Dorado County, CA
The river rafting scene in was filmed on the American River
  Indian Village    
  Travel to Pankot    
  Pankot Palace Dining Room    
  Temple of Kali Elstree Studios
London, England
Very elaborate set
Mine Car Chase Mine car chase Elstree Studios
London, England
 
  Rope Bridge Just north of Kandy, Sri Lanka  
  Rope Bridge England  
  Rope Bridge Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee
Grant County, WA
Resides above the Columbia River and Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake.
  Village    
Last Crusade

Arches National Park
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.
  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
  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.
  College Lecture Hall Rickmansworth Masonic School
Hertfordshire, England
 
  Irene's office    
  Indy's Office    
  College Campus Rickmansworth Masonic School
Hertfordshire, England
 
  Donovan's Apartment Elstree Studios, London, England
  Henry's House    
  U.S. Airport    
  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)
San Barnaba 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.
  Venice Catacombs Elstree Studios London, England
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

  Venice Apartment The Danieli Hotel
Venezia, Italy
70 kilometers from Venice
  Castle Brunwald
(Exterior)
Germany The Brunwald castle exterior was an actual castle in Germany, but Lucasfilm was only allowed to film the exterior
  Castle Brunwald
(Interior)
Elstree Studios All of the interior shots were filmed at Cannon / EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood. 2
  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.
Berlin Book Burning Scene Stowe School
Buckingham, England
The filming took place on the North front.
Treasure Island Naval Air Station 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.
  German Airport Interior    
  German Airport Airstrip    
  Zeppelin

Elstree Studios
London, England

The interior of the Zeppelin was a set created for the film- the extrerior was a computer graphic
  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)
.

  Car chase    
  Beach Scene May have been filmed in Majocar, Spain.  
  Iskenderun Palace    
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.
  Tank Chase Almeria, Spain Indy's encounter, on horseback, with a Nazi tank was filmed on a dry river bed.
Khazneh 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
  Grail Temple Interior Elstree Studios
London, England
 
Sunset "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.

Other known filming locations (not known what scene):

General:
Stockton, San Joaqin County - Converatory of Music at the University of the Pacific.

Last Crusade:
Royal Horticultural Hall in central London

 

Footnotes:
1 Voynick, Steve. "Steam: Still Whistling After All These Years" Colorado Central Magazine No. 67, p 16. http://www.cozine.com/archive/cc1999/00670162.htm
2
1989 British Indiana Jones Annual
3 Taylor, Derrick. The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark pp. 19, 25, 29, 42, 44


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