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Exact Vermont locations?

posted 16 years ago by rs3-1556
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I know this is a shot in the dark, but has there ever been any sort of documentation of where in Vermont some of this was filmed?

Some of the stuff is obvious Disney backlot, but indeed some scenes are legit. I'd love to find out where.

[–] ciecie 10 years ago

don't about any locations for this movie. I do know that this movie was being made at the same time as mary poppins.

[–] daviddermott 8 years ago

I found the following quote in this link to the movie:
http://www.thedisneyfilms.com/2011/09/those-calloways-1965.html

"While some establishing shots were done in Vermont,
the majority of the film was shot on the Disney Studio lot. The
entire village plus a lake and the family's cabin were built on the
backlot. Since the film takes place in the fall, artists painted
280,000 leaves on the lot to make Burbank look like fall in Vermont."

I haven't seen the movie since 1966 (50 years ago)! Is the movie
set in Vermont or just some generic "North Woods" place?

I recently found my long-lost (over 40 years) copy of "Swiftwater"
(by Paul Annixter alias Howard Allison Sturtzel), the book on which the
movie is based. The book is definitely set in Maine. The book is also
"darker" than the movie. In the book, a major character dies.