ABSTRACT
Every story takes place somewhere. Characters and their actions occur
somewhere in time with a sense of place-that physical space that is the “location.” However, the location always evolves into something so
much more dynamic than that alone. Even the great director David O.
Selznick realized this back in 1939 as he reminisced over what was lost by filming Gone with the Wind on a fabricated studio back lot.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Hollywood studio system main-
tained a monopoly on making movies. The major studios owned the sound stages and held the in-demand actors to contracts over long peri-
ods of time. Movie making evolved into a more sophisticated business
