There must be dozens if not hundreds of fake Oval Offices used by movies all over the place. I imagine each major studio has a semi-permanent OO set to use whenever they have a show or movie that needs it. I suspect most are in Hollywood. Since Biden was seen clearly at the Capitol (ignoring the theories that the inaug was staged), not clear how he could get to California and back without obvious tracking, so if it was a set, it would have to be an East Coast set. So how many sets are setup on the east coast?
There is NO reason to have more than one in CA, maybe one in Georgia, etc. That's a massive waste of money, when you could just rent ak already built set...like hollywood does for almost everything, when they dont want to spend shitloads of money building a fresh set...
Imp not more than 4 places in the US look like the Capitol
Well, by that logic, there's no reason to have more than one grocery store per neighborhood, but we have Safeway, Lucky, etc; or more than one car dealership, but we have Ford, GM, Toyota, etc - private enterprise and competition; availability, etc. If I'm making a series like West Wing, I am gonna want to have access to the set pretty much continuously so if some rival show wants to film a similar scene, they'll build their own.
There must be dozens if not hundreds of fake Oval Offices used by movies all over the place. I imagine each major studio has a semi-permanent OO set to use whenever they have a show or movie that needs it. I suspect most are in Hollywood. Since Biden was seen clearly at the Capitol (ignoring the theories that the inaug was staged), not clear how he could get to California and back without obvious tracking, so if it was a set, it would have to be an East Coast set. So how many sets are setup on the east coast?
There is NO reason to have more than one in CA, maybe one in Georgia, etc. That's a massive waste of money, when you could just rent ak already built set...like hollywood does for almost everything, when they dont want to spend shitloads of money building a fresh set... Imp not more than 4 places in the US look like the Capitol
Well, by that logic, there's no reason to have more than one grocery store per neighborhood, but we have Safeway, Lucky, etc; or more than one car dealership, but we have Ford, GM, Toyota, etc - private enterprise and competition; availability, etc. If I'm making a series like West Wing, I am gonna want to have access to the set pretty much continuously so if some rival show wants to film a similar scene, they'll build their own.
Here's a 2014 article on Quora (which sucks as a site, but fulfills the need here) https://www.quora.com/Does-each-movie-that-needs-to-shoot-a-scene-in-the-Oval-Office-build-its-own-set-or-is-there-a-replica-of-the-White-House-somewhere-in-Hollywood-that-all-the-productions-can-rent
350 million people need food every day. 2 people need a Whitehouse movie set once every year or 2.... come on now.