Dear Location Community,

It has come to Local 817’s attention that some productions are still requesting that Local 817 Location members compose and/or provide an EMERGENCY PLAN for the locations on the production. 

Please be advised that if you are asked to provide any kind of an EMERGENCY PLAN, please notify production that this is not the duty of Locations under the agreement (feel free to forward this email) and please CC your business representatives on the correspondence.

Business Agents Emails:

Hi Everyone, and a Happy New Year! I am an 817 Locations Scout who specializes in 3D scanning of Locations. I have multiple high-resolution cameras that can create interior AND exterior scans of up to 50,000 sq. ft in a day. Art Directors and Production Designers have found my virtual walkthroughs extremely helpful, efficiently saving time and labor costs. Measurements can be taken from INSIDE each location model. Forgot to measure that door? Just open the web link shareable to all team members and measure WITHIN the model. I can also DE-FURNISH spaces virtually. Need a DWG or XYZ Point Cloud file for drafting the space? I got you! Please share my name with anybody looking for 3D Location scans and virtual tours!

Join Local 817 Member's: Eric Papa and Malaika Johnson on a public panel January 14th,

Link: CBH Talk | Scouting Brooklyn: Inside the Film Location Archive | Brooklyn Public Library

"Before digital files, databases, and location-scouting apps transformed the industry, New York’s production world ran on hard copies—real photographs, taped into real folders, stored in real boxes. In the 1980s and ’90s, this analog system became an improvised but indispensable collective archive: a constantly expanding trove of panoramic shots of exteriors and interiors across the city, labeled everything from “Dark Alleys” to “Bowling Alleys.”

This command-central workspace was where location scouts shared the day’s work, taping freshly developed prints into hand-labeled folders and studying one another’s material—saving countless hours of duplicate shooting. Decades later, this remarkable visual record of Brooklyn’s streets, storefronts, and neighborhoods has been processed, preserved in the Center for Brooklyn History archives, now accessible to all researchers,…