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…Funny how movies rarely shoot where geographically the story takes place. Some of the other Alberta locations will no doubt become fodder for more BIGDoer.com then and now posts. The film is based on the novel “The Wild Horse Killers”, published in the 1970s. Some interesting trucks make an appearance… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 9 in comments.)

…search of her father who’s said to be working in a lumber camp out west. Join us as visit some locations seen in the movie to see how things look today. A fun project! ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Scroll down for photos or to comment ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Much… (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 1 in comments.)

…it way into Calgary, where we live. The movie image is copyright 20th Century Fox. To see more wonderful photos showing the area, go here… Horseshoe Canyon To see some other movie then and now posts, follow these links… Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge – then and now (filmed not far… (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 3 in comments.)

We found another filming location from the movie Brokeback Mountain. In this scene, a flashback, a young Ennis is lead by his father to view the body of a murdered rancher. The movie location is set in Wyoming, but in reality the scene was shot in the badlands of Alberta,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

In this, our second of hopefully many Brokeback Mountain then-and-now articles we’ll do, we take a look at two separate scenes from the movie. In the first, the characters Ennis and Alma are getting married in a quaint little church and in the second setting they are seen at the… (Search hits: 1 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…2005 production Brokeback Mountain. It plays the “Twist Ranch”, the family farm connected to Jack Twist, one of the title role characters within the movie. As the story winds down, the old buildings chronicled here becomes the backdrop. Brokeback Mountain then and now – Twist Ranch: an old farm seen… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 7 in comments.)

…better – the rain threatened, but it never fell. It was awfully grey though. For these shots we visit the former town of Beynon Alberta. Located deep in a valley, the cemetery scenes from the movie were shot overlooking the community, up on the open prairies. The rail line can… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 3 in comments.)

…With you, always! Chris Doering You are most welcome. We so love visiting all the locations from this movie. It’s a sense of connecting that’s hard to top. Chris Doering Yes, we know where most of those locations are. PM us and we’ll share them with you if you like…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 8 in comments.)

…the story is more important to us than any other factor and if the pictures are not perfectly spot on, who really cares. We do it to have fun. Images from the movie are copyright Focus Features. To see some other movie then and now posts, go here… Brokeback Mountain… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 2 in comments.)

I doubt if the the St Louis Hotel was ever considered one Calgary’s finer establishments, but one thing it does have is character, truck loads of it, and this made it a perfect backdrop for some scenes in the 1983 movie Superman 3. In this part of the story the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 1 in comments.)

It’s been a while since we did one of our trademark movie “then and now” posts. For those who have not seen any of these, we search out productions that were filmed in our area and using our detective skills alone, we track down the locations where they were shot,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

…Pass. The building dates from the first few years of the twentieth century. Interestingly, the firm that constructed the building was known as Disney and Johnson. Recall, Natty Gann is a Disney movie. The image from the movie Journey of Natty Gann is copyright Disney Studios. To see some other… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 5 in comments.)

…don’t use it (that’d be too easy) and instead we put our detective skills to work to find the locations shown in the movie. Barb klaassen We celebrated the Carseland Hotels 100th year July 15, 2015 I’m a waitress there Chris Doering Darn, and I missed it. We’ll drop by… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 3 in comments.)

For years now we’ve been going into local (to us) locations seen in the earlier Superman movies and showing what they look like today. We’ve long since visited most of the easily accessible sites and have been slowly chipping away at those which are harder to get to or appear… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

…be too easy. We like to use good old fashioned research to find these subjects. The image from the movie is copyright Focus Features. We love these movie then and now posts and if you do to, see more by following these links… Brokeback Mountain then and now – Signal… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

…unable to find any history on the structure, but research will continue of course. I do know that it sat empty for some time both before and after the movie was filmed. Since the movie was made, a new building has been built next door. Crossfield is located directly north… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

Erin887 How in the world did you find these locations? I told you earlier I hated the movie, but I ended up watching it last week. Your posts inspired me to give it another chance. I still don’t like it but love your Brokeback posts and your blog as a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 4 in comments.)