Why Vancouver Rarely Appears as Vancouver on Screen
Every Frame a Painting · Explainer · 9 min · 2015 · YouTube title: Vancouver Never Plays Itself
Why it's here
HN points to it as a short, funny look at how cities stand in for other places on screen, and at the film industry's local effects.
What it covers
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting about Vancouver, a major film production city that almost never appears onscreen as itself. It shows clips of films and TV shot there that pass the city off as somewhere else.