Superman The Movie (1978) Filming Locations in NYC - Kicked Out Of Daily Planet / My Favorite Hero
Superman The Movie (1978) Filming Locations
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today's adventure begins from my hotel
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room as the recording of this it is
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Friday May 12th
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2023 and I will be heading down from my
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hotel
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onto the streets
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of New York City
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and when I think of NYC I think of a lot
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of Productions a lot of movies but I am
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going to be covering my favorite
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superhero film of all time the 1978
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Richard Donner classic Superman
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the movie Marlon Brando Christopher
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Reeve Margot Kidder Gene Hackman
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a cavalcade
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I've been want to do this for a long
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time I want to see these spots for a
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long time
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I'm pretty excited about this I'm
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heading down welcome everyone
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you might think I'm someone else you
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might think I am mild-mannered reporter
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Clark can't because with the glasses on
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you would just assume that I was someone
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else because when you have glasses on
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you might not be able to tell who
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someone is Adam the
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woo here I am in Metropolis standing
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here
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on the side of the road with a bus going
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by in front
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of the one and only daily
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planet
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in real life it is the news building
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Donner chose this
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because it was an active newspaper
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for the Daily Planet and I am just
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completely blown away standing here in
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front of this they have built an awning
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in front of it but right up there
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is where Lois Lane the helicopter
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teetering over the side
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Superman swooped up grabbed her
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and the rest is history
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helicopter on top of that roof
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now they used to have a globe and from
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what I was kind of seeing on the web
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that the globe is still in there and I
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would imagine that's part of the reason
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the location Scouts chose this
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building to represent it because there's
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a scene
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when Margot and Chris walk out of the
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front
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and I believe it's Rex Reed is like has
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a little uh little Cameo walking in and
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out of there
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in front of that very building
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I'm gonna walk over there this is
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absolutely incredible there's a lot of
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stuff on the web a lot of behind the
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scenes stuff stuff on the special
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edition DVDs Blu-rays things like that
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of them doing production right over in
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here where Chris and Margot and the cast
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and the crew walk across the road they
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have the production Vans all that set up
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but this is it the news building the
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real life location still looks the same
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of the Daily Planet now this would not
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have been here
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this would have gone all the way up this
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little etching can be seen very
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prominently and there's the kind of the
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angle here
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looking with the doors where a lot of
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there's one interesting scene where
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Lois Lane and Clark walk out of this
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circle around and you can see a crew
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member's reflection
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in the window right here almost like you
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can see my reflection here I'm kind of
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like waving you can kind of see it's
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like an air this is before they could
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like CGI stuff out but when they walk
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through here you can actually see I
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don't think it was daughter I think it
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was the cameraman in in the little angle
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of the of the glass window stated here
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that the landmarks in New York New York
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Daily News Building completed in 1930
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doesn't say anything about Superman on
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here and being the Daily Planet but it
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is and this is the door they walk out of
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with the globe still in there oh my
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I am in here okay so watching the clip
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back it is not this one that I was
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standing on the side that they walked
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through I'll show there's a little
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parade going through out there so once
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that goes out I'll go back outside the
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door they walk through or the the
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spinning turnaround was that one that
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they walked through so Lois and Clark
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walk through here
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this direction walk around
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this area walk past the globe and out
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that door it's not the middle door there
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are three circular doors and
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and fun fact whenever I see a circular
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door I always think of Superman 78
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always every single time I cannot look
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at one of these doors
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anywhere in the world
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that I've gone through and not think of
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Superman Clark Kent transforming into
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Superman yeah no joke this
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what is happening right now this still
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exists this globe using the 78 Superman
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the movie still in here right
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looks like the clocks have been changed
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out though and it says right here 1977
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so it says in the 78 film this was used
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and there is where the actor actress
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there I'm kind of wondering if they use
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up top to film as well and there is
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Chris
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on the setup daily during the building
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of Superman there's the clocks behind
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all right I was just told I'm not
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allowed to film in here and they said no
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one's allowed here for more than five
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minutes unless you have a reason to be
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in there yeah definitely not very
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friendly when it comes to cameras inside
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there but you can see I was in there for
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a little bit luckily I was in there for
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a couple minutes before they were like
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get the heck out of here but the reason
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I knew it was the one I was pointing at
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not the one that originally showed
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outside is that little awning up there
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is still there where that's the middle
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circular door and there's Rex walking
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so I walk through the Superman turning
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door which I'm pretty happy about and I
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did not plan the check out the Superman
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curl right here unintentional I was
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hoping it would happen didn't notice it
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earlier but I have the Superman girl
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first they said only photos in there so
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I was like okay no problem and then I
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kind of wandered around for another
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moment and they said
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property controls asking you to leave
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tourists are only allowed five minutes
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so if you go in there no video
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only five minutes and supposedly photos
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perfect day
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looks like they believe in troop Justice
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of the American way in there or maybe
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they do and now into Grand Central
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Station where
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Otis tries to steal the item from the
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shop owner the dog starts barking that
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direction all that what I was just
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pointing at really doesn't look the same
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as it did but this does look the same
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and of course eventually heads down to
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the subway and there's a guy following
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him and the platform pushes the guy off
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into the subway platform and you know
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no spoilers but yeah didn't end well for
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the guy that was following Otis
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pretty impressive
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building oh the clock circular clock
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thing's still there
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from where Ned Beatty walks past yeah
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you could see him walking past it there
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and then there is that little roundabout
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Information Station that has the clock
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in the middle a little circular thing
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there kind of looks how it does then
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because just same kind of people in
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years there were then so that's him with
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the brown Blazer on there and the suit
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and the little hat right there in the
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middle and it kind of looks like you can
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see there's a little illuminated
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circular uh Archway over there I think
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it's facing this Direction with that
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escalator over there with that Archway
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so I believe it was something like this
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it could have been the other way hard to
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tell there was a lot of extras in the
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foreground and very quick very quick
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angles and shots but this looks like it
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would have been now where I was just
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standing was right over there at the
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base of those escalators there facing
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that way and I was correct
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which means he would have been walking
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past the clock there this way the two
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guys that are following him are over
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there one guy turns around goes back
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over there this does look a lot
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different however
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there's only one Archway there this is
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an open area here where the flag is this
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has kind of been redone so stairways
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have been added over there but this is
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the the angle here they had a they had a
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kind of a crane probably a little maybe
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20 30 feet higher than where I am
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looking down for like a visual from this
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side and notice where the flag is now
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that's what it was like a big clock
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there and over here to the right also
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are the ticket booths that are still
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there and one set of escalators which
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are over here to that side so I'm
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standing in the same spot just about 20
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feet lower because I don't have a crane
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to utilize let's just show it again
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escalator over there ticket booths over
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there and
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Otis walking directly through the middle
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of a crowd kind of about the same size
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crowd as there is modern day 78 to 2023.
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some point I'm going to walk back over
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too where I just was the Daily Planet
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also there was a parade going by it was
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a little too noisy for me to try to go
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back over there try to film The
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exteriors in a little more detail maybe
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I'll end with that okay from this point
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uh for different Grand Central to the
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next spot about a mile walk so I'm gonna
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be getting some steps in today but I
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might end up doing some public transit
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or maybe a taxi to get to a couple of
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them but we try to walk as much as I can
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walk in the streets of NYC all right I
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am seeing my next destination it is this
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very Sleek like building that
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tall building made of glass it's like a
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perfect opportunity for a crook to
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suction cup his way up the side
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possibly Rob someone however the Man of
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Steel has anything to do with it which
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he did he was thwart those attempts not
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sure which level it was that the crook
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was at
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but he's got the suction cups he's going
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up the side of the building I can see
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the reflections over there
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the clouds
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the super band was right there
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standing looking down which surprised
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the crook and then he lost a grip
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started to fall towards the ground
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Superman swooped it and grabbed him and
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then delivered criminal right over there
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to officer Mooney I believe his name was
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just about over in this area in fact the
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building still looks the same with the
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Sleek Archway style not Archway I keep
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using that word Archway but the slanted
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style that goes up
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in and then up but you can see these
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pylons here
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still look exactly the same and that
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backwards number nine down there is
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still there decades later what the heck
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I'm surprised that's nine is still there
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a slight redesign where they have gotten
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rid of the escalator here on the ground
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level looks like it was going down to
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maybe the basement but look at that
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backwards nine I always wondered what
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that was for evidently it's the
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addresses there's eight eight and a half
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and nine on this building and this is
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this is the late 70s in that nine
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backwards nine is still down there
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Superman lands
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goes down the side of the building
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the Crooked delivers them to the officer
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right there
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incredible this is still here that nine
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is still there but it is
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all the way down there on the end
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escalator is now gone that was over
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there and these lights up here you can
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also see that are illuminated because
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the scene is at night
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pretty incredible when the movie came
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out it was the biggest budget for a
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production from what I was reading ever
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up until that time until the late 70s
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they put a lot of special effects and
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practical effects and they had the
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cranes and they had the ropes
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take a look at that this is still here
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I mean that surprises me especially with
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how much stuff changes around cities and
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whatnot but this photo op even made it
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into the original cut of the movie
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so basically where that scene happened
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was out at the end over there
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that guy was trying
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to deal up there
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seemed like they would have been an
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easier way
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it's back then there wasn't as much
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crime in New York as
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I mean even then I think New York is
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probably even worse than it is now as
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far as crime I'm not sure what the crime
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ratio is but Superman would have had his
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hands full
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I mean if the worst thing happening
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someone scaffolding the side of the
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building with some suction cups or a cat
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stuck in a tree yeah it's a good day
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with the reflection of that nine in the
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window here
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so I was looking over here it's been
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redesigned now there's like glass around
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it but notice the top of the roof in
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this little circular section over there
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also is another one of those spinning
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doors they're everywhere makes you think
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of Superman but that little glass part
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up top the lighting kind of looks like
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this shown here
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so take a look right here that little
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very interesting circular
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little cubby hole there with the lights
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on the I think that's the lights that
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are now enclosed completely in glass
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right about there it's been redesigned
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but I believe that is I'm also looking
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at it from a different angle just not to
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get a glare but I think that's it
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with the nine and the distance so all
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three of the actors were standing right
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here in front of the eight and a half
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it's located on this glass door with
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that little alcove area over there it's
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kind of tough to see because of the Sun
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but yeah all right about two blocks from
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where I just was well probably one city
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block
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I'm gonna give a little mention to a
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site called caped Wonder there are quite
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a few blogs and people have done videos
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and websites all also there's lots of
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honking
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but I stumbled on this one site called
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Cape wonder and it appears as if that
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there could be others
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that they were the first to discover
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that this is the spot where you first
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see well with the exception of
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the beginning scene when you when you
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see
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Superman first fly but as far as being
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in Metropolis you first see Clark Kent
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switch over
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into Superman so when Lois is over at
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the Daily Planet this is not the Daily
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Planet this is like a good mile and a
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half of where it just was
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it's it flashes from that scene when
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Clark tries to go into a phone booth but
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really it's just a pay phone
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that's in a kind of a outer shell so we
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can't disguise itself he can't hide to
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switch over and then it flashes over to
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this very building here
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this is on the corner of West 58th
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Street
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and avenues of the Americas now this
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building can be seen behind Superman
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when he eventually comes out and flies
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up the side of this building and I'll
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try to line it up but this right here is
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a pivotal seat he call it the the scene
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where the where the pimp is now just
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before we're about to show was where he
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reveals the Superman s off his shirt
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there in Metropolis for the first time
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he's running across I believe that was
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on a set they did film some stuff on a
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set I don't think that this happened in
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the streets of New York it could have
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but I I don't think it did but
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immediately after he goes through a
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revolving door now the building has been
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completely remodeled but what I'm going
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to point it at is where that door was
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located at 101 which is pretty much
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where that white van is now so that's
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105 101s on that corner there was a
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awning
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so you can kind of see those little
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sculptures up there that are carved in
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the wall
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the metal stanchions hold any awning
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together was right there
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looks a little different and be able to
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match up a little more if all the
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scaffolding wasn't on that building over
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there on that other corner
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but ends up coming out
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guy compliments his outfit
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off he goes so that was where that
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awning was the address 101
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and you can see there's Superman flying
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off you can really see it a lot better
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in this so he goes above the awning
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notice the pillar s style of the
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building and the concrete work and the
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windows take a look at his other red
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building over here I'm going to zoom in
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through the scaffolding just so you can
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kind of tell that that is the same
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building and I'll walk over there to
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where that circuit the door was which
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anyone is a fan of this film is etched
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in our head
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forever looks like it's a cleaners now
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yeah it's a cleaners but this was the
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address 101 right through here total
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fashion care
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so take a look up top here at these I'm
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going to zoom in if you watch that scene
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Superman flies off you can see these
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very unique
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Windows window frames
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those right there that go up the side of
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the building where he kind of just flies
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off from the spot
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yeah the thing about big cities
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especially New York City everything
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changes so consistently
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evidently there was a record store here
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so you can see a little window with the
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record display
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so all of this which is standing right
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behind where I'm just kind of like
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visually showing this does not look the
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same anymore they've completely
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remodeled the front but that is where it
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was based on him flying up with the
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ropes and the pulleys and all that
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utilizing the back there
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and the front door would have been there
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and that's where that iconic moment
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happened
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and that's what I got the guy was with
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the two girls right here that is a bad
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outfit
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it flies up
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and away so yeah right up here there was
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the awning there were those metal ropes
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that were holding the awning on right
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incredible
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iconic Superman the movie location right
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in this door I don't understand the
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slang though that the the pimp is using
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say Jim that is a bad out fit
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not sure why he called him Jim
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you're just excited I mean I'd be
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excited too if
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I saw Superman right there here
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now the tag line for the movie was
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you'll believe a man can fly
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pigeons can fly
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but up until then it was the first time
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whoa it's the first time on screen that
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an actor playing Superman flew other
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than just laying on a box and having the
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same behind them so it was the first
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time you saw it
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Fortress of Solitude scene
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was just incredible when he kind of
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launched off
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flew away and then right after that
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dramatic scene with the classic
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incredible John Williams score I have
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rewounded that whole thing with Marlon
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Brando doing the whole talking about
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the Sun going to Earth and all that and
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then he flies for the first time with
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the use of cables
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he's just incredible it had never been
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done on film before up until that point
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and then immediately we see we see
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Metropolis
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because New York city has the stand-up
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so when I was over at the Daily Planet
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really was kind of emotional seeing that
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spot because I've seen it on film
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hundreds of times and right over there
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is Central Park I'm gonna walk parallel
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to it to kind of what is a discrepancy
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of opinions on the interwebs on where
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Lois's apartment was I'm going to show
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the one that most people consider it to
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be which is right up here probably I
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don't know a quarter of a mile with the
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address being 240
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Central Park South you can see it on the
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awning right there this is what is
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highly considered to be well it is a
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fictional home of Lois Lane but also
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where up on the top of the roof where
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her Penthouse was
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I guess it all depends on who you talk
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to but this is the one that everyone
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considers to be a 240. Central Park
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South Lois Lanes apartment
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classic scenes of her heard him flying
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in landing back on the roof she had
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quite the view from up there
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could it possibly run that one where
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that tree is up there and you can kind
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of see how it could be
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kind of looks like the same kind of
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rooftops
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oh
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I've never seen anybody that's actually
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gotten up into the apartment complex
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or into the penthouse or anything like
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that but yeah
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there's that blue dot is me standing
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there got a pretty good way to go to the
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other spot and try to contemplate how
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I'm going to get over there but I found
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this pretty cool picture
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Chris replaying Superman in front of the
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New York City skyline
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he probably got pretty used to hockey
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too non-stop hockey here in New York
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every five seconds
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Statue of Liberty
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Louis and Superman flew by that I'm not
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sure if I'm gonna get the Statue of
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Liberty today but
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in case I don't
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this will be the one moment seeing only
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lasts like two seconds but yeah this is
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the miniature Statue of Liberty across
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the way from this Fountain right there
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is a Big Apple in the Big Apple and
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Radio City Music Hall I think I'm gonna
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walk back to my hotel
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relax just for a bit I mean there's
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still a ways to get back over there get
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off my feet for a little while then
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coordinate how I'm gonna get down to
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some of the spots that are way south of
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so I still got to wait before I get back
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but I'm definitely getting my steps into
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that
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this pipe is emitting out of the ground
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with steam coming up from it
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very poignant loud steam take a look at
22:47
that and I'm passing by the outside now
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of Grand Central
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what an impressive building
22:56
look at the street cleaner over here too
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yeah
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that's it I mean obviously it's huge
23:06
enough to where you know it's that but
23:07
you can tell by those same windows
23:12
so this is walking through there all
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right I'm gonna try this again I gotta
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go inside
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who's building the AKA The Daily Planet
23:19
but I'm gonna walk in front just see if
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I can show where
23:24
where Clark came out saw the article of
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clothing I think it was a hat Lois's hat
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was on the sidewalk walked over to the
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the not the pay phone booth not a full
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Booth but a half a half booth which kind
23:38
of got a good reaction from the audience
23:40
of course nowadays
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well I don't even know what the heck a
23:43
payphone is or the half Booth we
23:44
couldn't change in there
23:46
I just want to show that but this was
23:47
kind of the angle where they showed the
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helicopter up top as well very unique
23:52
little carvings there in the size as the
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news
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also it's also kind of interesting when
23:58
you watch the movie the entire crowd is
24:01
like directly below where the helicopter
24:03
and Lois was about to fall none of the
24:06
officers were like pushing them back
24:12
as they all stood here staring up
24:18
they were at the base of the news
24:18
building
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but really you know they were just right
24:22
over there where that cab was kind of
24:23
that that uh post office truck is and if
24:28
the helicopter would have fallen
24:30
everyone would have been having a bad
24:31
day all right just to reiterate
24:35
so they didn't go in that one and exit
24:37
out this one but what you really want to
24:40
is this little awning up here so you can
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utilize that
24:43
a lot of different times
24:45
and the one they come in and out of
24:48
not only Lois and Clark
24:51
was this one and also when Clark Kent
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walks out of this one at the it towards
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the dramatic scene with the helicopter
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it's the same one and you can tell
25:02
because it's a little awning over there
25:05
so right up here it's a daily planet but
25:07
it's the third one or the first one
25:09
depending on which way you're walking
25:10
and pretty much right over like pretty
25:12
much between this planter
25:14
and these free Publications
25:17
is where he walked out
25:20
so he walked out of that door looked up
25:23
at the top saw the helicopter heard Lois
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streaming
25:28
and kind of waded through the crowd
25:31
walked over here saw the pay phone kind
25:34
of gave the interesting like oh how am I
25:36
supposed to hide in here and turn to
25:37
Superman then he went a mile and a half
25:39
from here to where I just was
25:42
and then ended up changing in a super
25:44
van flying up here and saving them
25:46
absolutely incredible movie history that
25:49
happened right here I mean just the
25:52
panda note the pandemonium that was
25:54
ensuing
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in the film fictionally up there on the
26:00
top of the roof with Lois
26:08
just blows my mind I love that I love
26:08
the original Superman movie and here's a
26:10
view of it from just a little bit of a
26:12
distance imagine what it was like out
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here that night when they were filming
26:25
and I'm back in my room now and just so
26:25
happens I have a view of the Daily
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Planet
26:28
from out my window it is
26:31
right over there
26:41
curious to wonder if they really put a
26:41
helicopter up there and if the roof
26:43
scenes were on top of that roof or a
26:45
different roof
26:47
that is the building let me zoom in on
26:49
it it's the beige one right there with
26:51
the satellite dishes on the top
27:01
and the helicopter would have been right
27:01
on that ledge there
27:04
all right back on ground level here on
27:06
the corner of East 39th Street now I
27:09
took a taxi yesterday from the airport
27:11
to this area
27:13
today I'm going to try the Uber I've
27:15
already walked a lot but
27:17
four or five miles south of here I gotta
27:19
go and I've been walking a lot so I'm
27:22
gonna try to grab the vehicle and just
27:24
see what happens
27:38
all right that was one of the best Uber
27:38
rides I ever had
27:39
nice and quiet
27:45
yeah that was that was a good experience
27:45
got here quick train going by off in the
27:48
distance
27:49
now right over here
27:51
is the scene
27:53
where Clark and Lois
27:55
are told to go into that alley over
27:58
there looks like the alley is closed off
28:02
this is where it happened so they're
28:05
walking along here
28:06
and then uh hand points out and goes
28:09
come in here and they go right into this
28:12
little Alleyway right here
28:30
I don't think they used down the alley I
28:32
think they had a set or maybe a back lot
28:35
where for some of the other stuff that
28:37
they use most stuff was on location but
28:39
there were a few things looking in there
28:41
peeking up over this doesn't appear to
28:43
be the same
28:45
you know construction of the alley that
28:48
kind of looks the same it appears to
28:50
look a little bit different
28:52
than what I just showed when I went over
28:54
the side granted you know when you watch
28:56
the scene they definitely have like the
28:58
fire escapes and the little balconies
29:00
and whatnot but just the the way the
29:03
well you know what now I'm having now
29:04
I'm looking at him having my doubts
29:11
and this is this this whole area here
29:11
has changed quite a bit and really the
29:13
main way that you can tell this is the
29:15
spot
29:17
are the build is the building up here so
29:19
if you look at the windows here
29:22
they look exactly the same the same
29:24
brick building everything looks
29:28
how it did look
29:33
when they are very very startled when
29:33
the guy tells them to go into there you
29:35
could see this building behind them
29:39
as they walk in
29:41
and they have since put up this metal
29:44
wall
30:01
it was pretty wild honestly this is
30:01
pretty dang cool I keep saying that but
30:03
I'm just blown away by this whole
30:04
experience seeing all these spots so
30:06
here they are walking up to the side of
30:08
it's like a nail salon now but I think
30:11
it was a store at that time you see the
30:13
bridge over there you see the buildings
30:14
in the background and this whole facade
30:17
over here has been repurposed and
30:19
reshone but they continue on
30:22
right along here yeah now there's like
30:24
metal shutters pulled down the side
30:30
there is a big truck pulling by with a
30:30
lot of spray paint on it
30:32
makes me think I wonder if there's any
30:33
murals around town
30:35
of Superman there should be
30:41
they turn right here
30:42
and then the guy sticks his hand out
30:43
there both sides of where the alley was
30:45
have complete different textures now
30:48
that unique brick and everything is gone
30:50
really the bridge behind them the fact
30:53
that the little alley is even still
30:55
there but the Brit the building behind
30:58
their heads is really the giveaway so
31:00
this is what it looked like in the film
31:03
even the lower Windows have changed a
31:05
little bit so notice that green door The
31:07
Green Door is still there but all the
31:09
windows off to the side of it have
31:10
changed but the windows right above
31:13
Chris's head all still look the same
31:16
including the size of the windows the
31:18
dimensions some are really long
31:20
rectangular some are more Square
31:23
that's the giveaway right there
31:26
think about New York things change
31:27
pretty dramatically but at least those
31:29
windows still look the same right up
31:30
there so in that frame I just showed the
31:33
flagpole while that flag called the lamp
31:36
post this kind of where Clark's head was
31:39
kind of like that so I'm going to zoom
31:42
in there's that red door so it would
31:44
have been kind of about like that
31:52
so many years later
31:52
okay from here I'm gonna walk a mile
31:54
to another spot
31:57
I think it's only a mile
32:02
no reason to get a ride so I'm just
32:02
gonna walk it and then I might get a
32:04
ride back later on but walk in this next
32:06
mile
32:32
the name of this area is kind of
32:32
interesting it's called Old Slip
32:36
and I don't believe it's this
32:50
power Ladder 15 going by
32:50
I don't believe this is the side but I
32:53
think it does look like the building I'm
32:55
gonna guess it's the other side
32:57
scene took place on oh yeah definitely
33:00
around this side
33:01
so this is when the three or four guys
33:03
were apprehended Superman brought the
33:05
boat out of the river and placed it
33:08
right here this still looks exactly the
33:11
same
33:12
departments or these Hotel here but just
33:15
the slats and the Slants on the side of
33:17
that building right over here next to
33:20
the parking garage area
33:22
is where the boat was sitting
33:29
boat was right there where that car was
33:30
these pillars could be seen prominently
33:33
this is a museum of sorts I don't think
33:35
it's open at the moment oh yeah the same
33:37
doors in fact
33:41
it's all locked up
33:44
two officers stood right here
33:51
watch Superman fly off and they saw the
33:51
boat right there as shown here
33:54
so there's the boat there's the pillar
33:56
in fact I'm standing right where they
33:58
were standing
34:03
curious to see if I peek in the window
34:03
with the front desk and everything is
34:06
still in there does not look like it is
34:08
so that front desk and everything where
34:10
the officer comes around all that's been
34:13
torn out that is gone
34:15
however
34:16
these are the same doors this door this
34:19
wooden door with the wrought iron on the
34:22
window was it it was inward when the
34:26
officer walked out right there
34:30
and these are the very steps they stood
34:31
on
34:33
not sure what those circles are there
34:34
but
34:36
then the angle was something like
34:38
something like that as they were both
34:40
standing there looking over at the boat
34:44
cool just one of many many scenes it's
34:46
kind of etched in my head forever from
34:49
that film
34:50
it's like a montage of different things
34:53
that Superman was doing
35:00
for truth justice and the American one
35:00
here's another angle a close-up of the
35:02
boat
35:03
see it was right there where that that
35:05
door was
35:07
about nine or ten windows in
35:18
more like the straight grab there and
35:20
this is what it looks like from this
35:21
side of the road
35:23
yeah it was a museum but evidently the
35:26
Museum's not open anymore
35:33
no longer operational
35:33
those are the doors that the officer
35:35
stood in and now back up to my room
35:37
Nightfall has started to rear its head
35:39
the sun has set
35:41
lights are turned on upon
35:50
or New York City
35:50
AKA
35:53
everything's illuminated
36:02
I always love the film
36:02
I always love the 78 dollar Superman I'm
36:05
glad I was able to cover it today a lot
36:07
of stuff looks different
36:08
and there's some stuff in other areas as
36:10
well but I just covered the New York
36:13
City spots
36:14
or at least most of the ones that I
36:15
could find
36:16
and get around to throughout the course
36:18
of the day
36:22
always loved the film
36:22
my dad always liked the movie we'd
36:24
always watch it together
36:29
I can always remember him telling me
36:29
stories but first time he saw the movie
36:30
poster I was four when the movie came
36:32
out
36:33
when we first saw the movie poster he
36:35
still to this day
36:36
talks about
36:38
how the tagline said you'll believe a
36:41
man can fly
36:43
something something to that effect I
36:44
might be paraphrasing it I've always
36:46
remembered that
36:48
his excitement for the movie the fact
36:50
that I like the movie
36:57
yeah it's kind of hidden over there in
36:57
the shadows
37:01
well maybe not so much in the shadows
37:01
but right there
37:02
so there's the elongated part of the
37:05
Daily Planet building
37:07
and then there is the
37:09
tall portion so Lois Lane
37:11
they've been right up there
37:15
on the copter thanks for watching I'll
37:17
see you in the next video
37:19
the Vlog is
37:31
over and here's the movie poster
37:31
Gene Hackman over in the corner Brando
37:34
over the other corner
37:35
Chris Reeve right there in the middle
37:38
and that iconic tagline
37:41
you'll believe
37:42
a man can fly
37:48
and I do
37:48
it made me believe