How could we forget Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street?

see: http://www.potsdam.ny.us/pictures.html

Tom Perrin

Clesson Bush wrote:
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> Little Old New York, a 1940 film about Robert Fulton starring Fred MacMurray, Alice Faye, Richard Greene, had a short segment filmed in New Baltimore, Greene County.
>
> There was a film starring Kris Kristofferson and Jane Fonda that used at least the interior of the Legislative Office Building in Albany as a stand-in I believe for some palace in a foreign locale.  I think it was in the early 80s but the name escapes me.
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> >>> Drew Harty / Linda Norris <[log in to unmask]> 02/01 8:06 PM >>>
> Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about upstate films.  I had
> loads of answers and a couple requests for summaries.  So,
> here goes.
>
> The films fall into a couple categories
> 1).  set in New York but not filmed here:
>         Drums Along the Mohawk, Northwest Passage, Last of the Mohicans, It's a
> Wonderful Life, Broken Chain, the Farmer Takes a Wife, A Place in the
> Sun, Hello Dolly, Duke of West Point, Long Grey Line, Saratoga Trunk,
> The Sweet Hereafter, Spellbound.
>
> 2.  early silent films:
>         many, many in Ithaca and two Edison ones (Gladiola and Under the Apple
> Tree) from Rennselaer County
>
> 3.  documentaries
>         Brother's Keeper (and many more I'm sure)
>
> 4.  Filmed upstate but not necessarily about upstate
>         Sterile Cuckoo, The Scent of a Woman, Age of Innocence, Horse
> Whisperer, Slap Shot, Grand Prix, The Way We Were, the Natural
>
> 5.  filmed upstate, using, I think, some sense of identity about the
> region
>         Ghost Story, Ironweed, Nobody's Fool, Eerie, Dadetown, Buffalo 66, Hide
> in Plain Sight, A Fan's Notes, Lady in White, Northwest Passage, Cold
> River, Liebestraum, A Time to Remember, Niagara, Niagara
>
> And the unclassifiable category:
>         a group of avant garde films made in the 1970s in Binghamton, and a
> group of recent, or about to be released independent films including
> Freak Talks About Sex, the Legend of Cryin' Ryan, Stumped, I Drink Your
> Blood, Come Again, and my personal favorite, Slugs, muerte viscosa,
> filmed in Wayne County.
>
> So, love to hear if there's more out there--particularly in the
> documentary category.  Thanks to all who responded.
>
> Linda Norris