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Location, location, location: Which suburb is our biggest screen star? – The Age
Melbourne has been making it big in the movies and television since the very beginning. But which suburbs grab the most screen time?
Melbourne has been a filmmaking hub from the very start, with The Soldiers of the Cross considered the world’s first long-form narrative film made in 1900 in the attic studio of the Salvation Army’s Bourke Street headquarters (you can visit, and watch short excerpts of the film in, the very room where it was shot).
With its mix of period and modern architecture, narrow streets and grand public buildings, central Melbourne has consistently played itself or doubled for somewhere in North America or…
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