USC Cinema Students (I'm in the middle.
                                          A group shot of some of us who use to
                                          hang out together and make films. From left
                                          in front row Tony Newman, Evan Kreeger,
                                          Joe Baldanzi and in the back row starting left:
                                          Ken Bergeron, Jeff Carney, Ron Fuchs,
                                          Bob Ducatte, and Salim Nayar.



                                        
                                         Cissy Northcutt and Jeff Carney outside the
                                         studio restaurant on the Universal Studios
                                         backlot. Cissy had a part in one of my
                                         films called "Won't Anyone Watch My Film" as a
                                         studio secretary that has to stop an over eager
                                         film student who barges in on a studio executive.

     
                                           
During lunch time at Universal, I would spend the time walking around the backlot seeing some of the locations. Here are some photos of the Hill Valley Location from Back To The Future. Unfortunately a backlot fire at Universal  in 2008 destroyed most of these sets. Here are some rare photos that I took on one of my walks.
                                         
                                          Walking down this street on the Universal
                                          backlot led me into a familiar town square - 
                                          It has been used countless times in many films
                                          through the years but it is best known as Hill
                                          Valley where Michael J. Fox and Christopher
                                          Lloyd filmed Back To The Future. On the right is
                                          the cafe. 




                                          
                                          The Entrance to the cafe where Marty McFly
                                          met his father as a teenager. And it became
                                          the Cafe 80's in Back To The Future Part 2. 
                                          Yes - I went into the cafe. Inside, it is empty
                                          except for the counter and it is a lot smaller
                                          inside in person than how it appeared in the
                                          film. Most of the set buildings on the Universal
                                          backlot are just fascades - meaning there are no 
                                          interior rooms. Just the front exteriors and side
                                          exteriors.  Interiors are usually filmed on sets
                                          built in sound stages or on location.
                                                         



                                          
                                            As I kept walking down the street it led me to
                                            this main street where the Delorean is seen
                                            reaching 88 mph and going back to the future
                                            as it races towards the theater at the end of the
                                            street. This is also the same street where Biff
                                            bothers Loraine when she is shopping and
                                            the street where the delorean is parked as Doc
                                            Brown hooks up his weather experiment in
                                            Back to the Future parts 1 and 2. The court house
                                            is just to the right.


                       
                        This is rare shot as if you look carefully the clock tower with the lion
                        statues on top of the court house are still in place - which of course
                        play a part in the film Back to the Future. My other photos which I took
                        a few weeks later, show they had removed the top part of the court 
                        house containing the clock/lions.

                                                  
 Photo that I had later signed by Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) showing the clock tower.



                         
                          A closer look where the Delorean/Doc Brown would have been during
                          filming of the closing scenes in Back to the Future.




                          
                                                  Another angle on the Hill Valley set.



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