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The craggy quarry remains are pockmarked by what appear to be cave openings, and therefore create an ideal backdrop for filming scenes meant to take place in a lonely southwestern wilderness. Scenes of the main cave entrance are normally filmed in a manner that shows the entrance at an angle because
97:. The quarry ceased operation in the late 1920s, leaving the caves behind. The caves became known as the Bronson Caves after the nearby avenue and a hill of that name, giving the area its more popular name of Bronson Canyon. The same street may have indirectly provided the stage name for actor 118:
Because so many films, in practically every genre, have had scenes filmed there over the last 100 years, the impression of a wide mountainous area has been created in film viewer's minds. In fact the canyon is a rather small v-shaped area with the caves in the middle apex.
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the cave is actually a very short tunnel through the hill, with the rear opening easily visible in a direct shot. The most well-known appearance of the tunnel entrance is likely its use as the entrance to the
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near the north end of Canyon Drive, which is an extension of Bronson Avenue. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a
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The West Portal that was used as the entrance to the Batcave in the 1960s TV series
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Bronson Canyon is located in the southwest section of
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Index

Bronson Caves

Griffith Park
Los Angeles
filming location
films
television series
Westerns
science fiction
Griffith Park
quarry
Brush Canyon Line
Charles Bronson
Batcave
Batman
Lightning Bryce
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Lightning Warrior
The Hurricane Express
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
White Zombie
Sagebrush Trail
The Three Musketeers
The Vampire Bat
Mystery Mountain
The Phantom Empire
Flash Gordon
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Zorro Rides Again
Dick Tracy Returns

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