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In trying to identify every shot in the film, we can include the stock footage as well. As Kowalski speeds on I-70 near Palisade, Colorado, we are shown a flashback of a stock car race. Thanks to the wealth of information available at our fingertips today it is not difficult to identify the...

Has anyone ever pointed this location out yet? The dirt road at dusk where Angel flies away. This is Blackburn Draw Road about three miles north of Hanksville, Utah, a short distance east of SR 24. The Hanksville airport control building is visible in both images. When I visited in 2015 I did...

That's a nice collection of documents. I did get a good laugh, though, from Car Magazine UK's plot overview of the film which describes the characters and events of Goldfinger.

The USGS site today is reluctant to let me download high-res historic aerial images of the site for comparison. Maybe another day. If you would prefer to hike to the site rather than drive, there is an alternate route that may be less time consuming: There is a hard-to-miss outcropping of rock...

Hello there, uh, Eric, and your stuff looks pretty awesome! Some of your shots look like they're on the older alignment of US 95 south of Tonopah. As far as accessing the dry lake site goes, a film crew reached it with their vehicles. I wouldn't advise aiming for the old railroad path like you...

Where did Kowalski pick up the gay hitchhikers? About 5.6 miles south of where he later throws them out a short distance north of Sportsmans Park Road, where the telegraph line crosses State Route 376, even though they are traveling southbound for the entire scene.

Where did Kowalski run Deputy Collins and Charlie off the road? They first spot him driving east on US 50 coming from the direction of Austin, NV. They chase him until just past where the road curves from one miles-long straightaway to another. The curve in the film looks sharper than it is...

There are always more places to find. To my knowledge, no one's definitively pointed out where Kowalski crosses his own off-road tracks in the desert. It was vaguely defined as being on the vast dry lake bed near Wendover, UT. Bonneville salt flats sometimes gets mentioned but I've never...

The stuff in Thousand Oaks did come near the end; Sarafian's commentary mentions having only one good car left by then. There was to be another Hollywood scene: I recall there was planned a Vietnam flashback that would have involved stunt driving and probably pyrotechnic FX, but no images of...

Okay what's left to find? Jake's (Lee Weaver) home maybe. That too was some real location. According to Sarafian, Kowalski's phone booth was placed in a real spot somewhere too but the wider shot establishing it to be alone in the middle of nowhere didn't make it into the final cut. I was...

It's not spelled out but it's not hidden either. The Consolidated Mines Co. office was redressed as the Sheriff's office for the film, and I don't think they pretended it was anywhere other than Goldfield. The office buildings's shadow is prominent in Cleavon Little's first scene; Super Soul...

Fantastic! I'd read once that someone had identified a "very brief scene shot on US93 south of Wendover" but never tried tracking it down without stronger clues as which exact scene was being talked about. Another location added to/scratched off the list, congratulations!

"Person-to-person call for Kowalski. Can you hear me, Kowalski? This is to inform you of the latest developments. Correction to my last delivery..." Consultation with Silver Fox, the geologist/blogger familiar with the landscape of central Nevada, provided results very quickly: "Peter, I was...

I apologize for not featuring the Challenger much in this post, realizing this is first and foremost a car enthusiasts' forum. I have a few collages of video snapshots that have been helpful. We're looking at the same distant ridge line in each shot, establishing that the location hasn't...

Well my only support for considering the Alkali Lake area is its proximity to Tonopah and Dean Jagger's next scene at Gemfield road, about 12 miles distant. I know not to trust the presumed geographic proximity the movie suggests since it actually hopscotches all over the map. I too noticed the...