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How did the each mansion's exterior stack up, in comparison?
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 441407" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>Both Filoli (which did restrict use for filming at one point, but I think that was later) and Miravalle were around San Francisco, 400 miles to the north of Hollywood. So, with the TV budgets of the time, the entire crew traveling up there probably had to be restricted. I'm guessing.</p><p></p><p>Aaron Spelling was infamously tight-fisted with the money (except for John, Joan and Linda's salaries and for Nolan's wardrobe expenses) and the show never went to Denver (except interior shooting at the Carousel Ball and the actors entering from the sidewalk to inexplicable applause from onlookers as if they were TV stars and not just another rich family) or Filoli (except for the 3-hour pilot); Spelling would allow LOVE BOAT to go on location a couple of times a year because, I guess, he felt they needed a legitimate cruise every so often.</p><p></p><p>Southfork, originally Duncan Acres, was chosen by Leonard Katzman because he felt it couldn't be photographed from a bad angle, was 1,500 miles to the east of Los Angeles, but at least they went there for a month or two every summer in order to capture some valid Texas atmosphere... DALLAS' trip to Vienna and Moscow should have happened on DYNASTY, but DYNASTY never went anywhere -- filmed in a flat-lighted closet with furs and, from time-to-time, Steven.</p><p></p><p>FC did the same with San Francisco as DALLAS did Dallas, filming there two months every summer.</p><p></p><p>Filoli, a Georgian mansion built just after the turn-of-the-century, was the perfect setting for The Carringtons, so it really was a shame they only went there once. But it had an atmosphere that DYNASTY quickly lost... Southfork, a newer structure built in 1970, was an infamously tiny ranch house, but it photographed as larger than it actually was (the original Box Ranch used in the 1978 'mini-series' was large enough to house all the Ewings, but was somehow less-cute than Duncan Acres; the Box Ranch burned in 1987 when one of those embers from Pam's tanker collision set fire to it, and, oddly, has lain fallow for 40 years -- unless somebody did something with it recently). </p><p></p><p>Villa Miravalle was ideal for Angela and her FC family, gently gothic and compelling like the show itself originally was. (For decades, I would have the occasional weird dream occurring in the foyer of the house, but those seemed to have ceased in the 2020s). </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]59212[/ATTACH]</p><p><img src="https://i.blogs.es/99d388/650_1000_parrotmansion_foyer_zps8af71c1b/450_1000.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 789px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 441407, member: 57984"] Both Filoli (which did restrict use for filming at one point, but I think that was later) and Miravalle were around San Francisco, 400 miles to the north of Hollywood. So, with the TV budgets of the time, the entire crew traveling up there probably had to be restricted. I'm guessing. Aaron Spelling was infamously tight-fisted with the money (except for John, Joan and Linda's salaries and for Nolan's wardrobe expenses) and the show never went to Denver (except interior shooting at the Carousel Ball and the actors entering from the sidewalk to inexplicable applause from onlookers as if they were TV stars and not just another rich family) or Filoli (except for the 3-hour pilot); Spelling would allow LOVE BOAT to go on location a couple of times a year because, I guess, he felt they needed a legitimate cruise every so often. Southfork, originally Duncan Acres, was chosen by Leonard Katzman because he felt it couldn't be photographed from a bad angle, was 1,500 miles to the east of Los Angeles, but at least they went there for a month or two every summer in order to capture some valid Texas atmosphere... DALLAS' trip to Vienna and Moscow should have happened on DYNASTY, but DYNASTY never went anywhere -- filmed in a flat-lighted closet with furs and, from time-to-time, Steven. FC did the same with San Francisco as DALLAS did Dallas, filming there two months every summer. Filoli, a Georgian mansion built just after the turn-of-the-century, was the perfect setting for The Carringtons, so it really was a shame they only went there once. But it had an atmosphere that DYNASTY quickly lost... Southfork, a newer structure built in 1970, was an infamously tiny ranch house, but it photographed as larger than it actually was (the original Box Ranch used in the 1978 'mini-series' was large enough to house all the Ewings, but was somehow less-cute than Duncan Acres; the Box Ranch burned in 1987 when one of those embers from Pam's tanker collision set fire to it, and, oddly, has lain fallow for 40 years -- unless somebody did something with it recently). Villa Miravalle was ideal for Angela and her FC family, gently gothic and compelling like the show itself originally was. (For decades, I would have the occasional weird dream occurring in the foyer of the house, but those seemed to have ceased in the 2020s). [ATTACH type="full" width="791px"]59212[/ATTACH] [IMG width="789px"]https://i.blogs.es/99d388/650_1000_parrotmansion_foyer_zps8af71c1b/450_1000.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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