When I worked at Griffith running the telescope there were movies and
commercials being shot there all the time. And I'd see it in all sorts
of things, my favorite being the original Invaders from Mars. Once a
documentary I was watching showed an astronomer they were interviewing
walking across the roof to the dome. I said to my wife, "Hey, that's
not his office. That's *my* office." :-) And one of the most common
question I'd get from out of town visitors was, "Isn't this where James
Dean was killed in Rebel Without a Cause?" (it was)

Mike Simmons

Matthew Ota wrote:

I just saw a short 30 second commercial featuring the Griffith Park
Observatory. No spoilers here but it showed the dome and telescope,
but the rest was pretty much nonsensical.
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Matthew B. Ota
Orange County Astronomers Astroimagers SIG
http://www.ocastronomers.org/
Telescopes In Education (TIE)
http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/tie/index.html
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Saturn Observation Campaign
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/soc/
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