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AMISTAD filming locations
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CREDITS
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Amid
accusations of plagiarism and Disneyfication, Spielberg
followed the success of his grown-up movie, Schindlerís
List, with another worthy slice of history.
The opening mutiny scenes are a mix of studio and location
filming. Daytime exteriors filmed aboard two different
schooners at two separate locations – on the east
coast, the Amistad is played by Marylandís
state ship, the Pride of Baltimore, while over on the
west coast, a ëfloating cityí was constructed a mile
off the coast of San Pedro,
the harbour south of Los
Angeles (Spielberg
learned his lessons about seaborne shoots on Jaws).
The boat here was the state ship, too, the Californian.
The port is Mystic
Seaport, about ten miles east of New London, Connecticut,
home of Americaís leading maritime museum, where a reproduction
of the schooner is to be built to help teach history.
And, yes, itís the town featured in Mystic Pizza.
More material was filmed around Groton
Long Point, Connecticut.
Most of the filming, however, took place in Newport,
Rhode Island,
where the prison exteriors were built. The major location
is the cityís historic Washington
Square. Here, the Colony
House, dating from 1739 and once the site
of Rhode
Islandís colonial government, provided two locations
for the major courtroom scenes.
The arraignment of the Africans was shot in the Colonyís
ground floor, and the next courtroom scenes, in the
Appellate Court, were filmed in the upstairs courtroom
of Colony House. When permission to film the climactic
scene in the real Supreme Court Building, Washington
DC was refused, the courtroom was reproduced on a local
soundstage.
More scenes were filmed in Massachusetts,
at the Massachusetts State
House, Boston.
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