Monday, December 28, 2009

Sanctuary!

This is the Notre Dame Cathedral facade on the Universal backlot for the 1923 version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

No detail is spared.
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  1. DavelandDecember 29, 2009 at 6:27 AM

    That is friggin' amazing...and was probably torn down shortly after filming. Wow wow and wow.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 1, 2012 at 8:04 PM

      The actual, built set was only up to the horizontal area above the row of carved statues that are up from the 3 gothic doorways.

      Everything higher, including the rose window and the twin bell towers, was a glass or matte painting, that was filmed and "married" to the physical filmed set, in post production.

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  2. robby431December 29, 2009 at 8:50 AM

    If I remember correctly, it stayed up for quite some time. I think the outdoor church scenes in The Wolf Man, nearly 20 years later, were filmed at the Notre Dame Cathedral.

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