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This is a working index of filming locations: the street address the camera actually used, what stands there now, and the month somebody last checked. It runs from the Carolina coast through the American southwest to the laneways of Melbourne.
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The Notebook, twenty-two years on
Eleven North Carolina addresses, each marked standing, changed or gone.
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Five regions carry the whole index. Australia is the largest because the Victoria desk sits inside it; the United States is the deepest because most of the screen locations in this travel guide are American. A film location travel guide is only as good as the region it knows best, so the depth is uneven on purpose.
The local desk, not a stopover. Melbourne is written up as a place people live in rather than as one stop on a circuit, and the day trips around it get the same treatment as the location files: an address, what is there now, and the month it was last checked.
Four Nicholas Sparks adaptations on one coast, the desert southwest, and the landmarks between them.
Amsterdam in a single afternoon, Paris in winter, and a market town at Christmas.
Georgian Bath in a day, and an honest note on which villages are actually near.
Canada, New Zealand and the countries that do not fill a hub of their own.
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State by state, film by film: with a current access note on every address.
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Every address the 2004 film used across coastal North Carolina, and which buildings still stand.
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Four adaptations along one 180-mile stretch of Carolina shoreline.
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The local desk
Most screen-location indexes treat Australia as one line. This one keeps a standing desk for Melbourne and regional Victoria, because that is where a second body of readers actually is: a redwood plantation in the Yarra Ranges, a 1936 cinema still running 35 mm, a laneway repainted every few weeks, and the dessert counters that stay open after all of it closes.
The Victoria files are written the same way as the location files (an address, what is there now, and the month it was checked) because a café that has shut and a farmhouse that has been demolished fail a reader in exactly the same way.
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Four rules separate a film location travel guide you can actually drive to from a list copied out of a press kit. An entry that fails any of them is held back instead of published thin.
A title only enters the index once at least one shooting location can be tied to a real street, building or landform: not to a town name on its own.
Each entry carries the address or, where a landform has none, a description precise enough to stand on: the car park, the trailhead, the mile marker.
Standing, changed or gone. A demolished building keeps its entry and is labelled gone, because a reader who arrives to find a car park has been failed either way.
Every file states the month it was last checked. A date that has aged is more useful than a claim of currency that cannot be tested.
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Film and television shooting locations that can be visited, and the places around them. Each entry gives the production, the address or landform, what the camera used it for, whether it still stands, and the month the entry was last checked.
Every entry that ships carries an address or a description precise enough to navigate by. A production whose locations cannot be pinned that precisely is left out, not described vaguely; the index is deliberately shorter than it could be.
Because the two subjects overlap on the ground. Regional Victoria carries screen locations of its own, and the cafés, forests and day trips around them are what a reader travelling there needs next. Melbourne is covered as a place, not as a stopover.
They are made for this site, not sourced. The photographs are produced with an AI image tool and every one of them is marked "AI" on the picture, in its caption and in its alternative text; the drawings and the logo are made by hand. No film stills, no posters and no studio material appear anywhere on the site, which is also why the location files describe what the camera pointed at rather than showing it. The page "How AI is used here" sets out the detail.