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Vancouver Never Plays Itself
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting about Vancouver, a major film production city that almost never appears onscreen as itself. It shows clips of films and TV shot there that pass the city off as somewhere else.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a short, funny look at how cities stand in for other places on screen, and at the film industry's local effects.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Every Frame a Painting
- Topic
- film locations
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
One of my favourite Youtube channels, Every Frame A Painting, talks about this in Vancouver - except that the movies are rarely set in Vancouver: [VIDEO]
crummy on Hacker News · 2019-10
In Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong KongI recommend "Los Angeles Plays Itself" to any interested in seeing the juxtaposition of what you see in movies/tv with the reality. There's also a much shorter, funnier one called "Vancouver Never Plays Itself" - [VIDEO]
JBlue42 on Hacker News · 2017-04
In Walking in L.A.This made me rewatch Vancouver Never Plays Itself [1] from Every Frame a Painting. It didn’t have as many examples of Vancouver playing New York as I remembered, but it’s still an interesting demonstration of how a city is made to appear not to be …
tobr on Hacker News · 2019-09
In When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star
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