In 1910, silent filmmaker Sidney Olcott, a Canadian-American of Irish descent, became the first Hollywood director to shoot an on-location movie when he travelled to County Kerry to make A Lad from Old Ireland.

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For some content, the channel hires production crews to shoot skateboarders, surfers and other athletes on location, but many of the athletes shoot video on their own.

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Soon after the Ambats and their neighbors agreed to the shoot Mr. Baugh, the location manager, came for an inspection.

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His first duty as cover athlete was to shoot the cover, which was done on location in the Big Apple right after the live broadcast in front of hundreds of NFL fans (many of whom were in town for the NFL Draft).

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"Location scouts would see they wanted to shoot a particular building, but the colours were wrong, " says Judith Frankel of the Preservation League.

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Halle Berry had broken her foot while on location in Mallorca and he needed to wait for her full recovery to shoot a chase scene.

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Water was originally planned to be shot in India in 2000 but both the location and the time of production had to be altered after Hindu hardliners disrupted the shoot in Varanasi.

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