Look ‘Ma, I’m a Movie Star!

Chris Mathieson — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:44:45 +0000

Checking YouTube last week, we came across this little jem. It’s a music video filmed in the building that later became our own Police Museum. The band, Images in Vogue, used the autopsy space, the morgue and the courtroom for the video. The courtroom in the video is now our main gallery… only a few clues as to its original use survive. (When you visit the museum, look for evidence of the judge’s bench and the jury box. it’s there, just not instantly obvious.)

Of course, we’ve been involved in dozens of other productions over the years. Rumour has it that both 21 Jump Street and MacGuyver used the courtroom in the early/mid-80′s. More recently, we’ve participated in the filming of X-Files, Millennium, Masters of Horror, Smallville, Butterfly on a Wheel, Fido, Reaper, Fantastic Four, X-Men, jPod, Dragon Boys and more. For some, we rented one of our spaces, for others we rented some of our many props. One of the longest relationships we had was with DaVinci’s Inquest; most of the items in DiVinci’s office came from our museum.

In the next month, we have two more productions filming at the museum and undoubtedly many more to come in the future. We’re just puting the finishing touches on a new package to further promote ourselves to the local Film Industry. When that’s done, I’ll post some of the highlights…. Hopefully we can find some examples of our museum in action!

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Look ‘Ma, I’m a Movie Star!