The Texas Round-Up

Robert Benton shot all of Places in the Heart in Waxahachie, where he grew up, in the fall of 1983. A hotel became the bank, and a cotton gin came back to life.

The Royal's exterior is in Archer City. Its interior is a different theater 30 miles away in Olney. Eight Oscar nominations, no stages, two lights.

The University of North Texas supplied the fictional Texas State. Fouts Field supplied the football. 17,000 locals showed up because the radio asked.

Altman put nine of the film's ten weeks in Dallas: the Arboretum's Women's Garden, the NorthPark fountain, and a screenwriter from a Panhandle cotton town who had spent fifteen years as a script supervisor.

One theater with a filmmaker service menu, a Fort Worth that lost four rooms in four years, and the suburban historic houses that publish their rates. The North Texas edition.

Every other source says world-class crew base. Here is which departments actually are, which are adequate, which are thin, and the one you should import, from my own shows. With the method, so you can argue.

September's ledger of what's actually shooting in Texas, by region, with a named source on every line. Plus two corrections to the August edition.

The Davis Mountains for the Rockies, the Hill Country for Provence, Palo Duro for the Outback, Caddo Lake for the Amazon, and four European villages that shouldn't exist here. With the honest limits.

What actually exists, who runs it, and what's still a rendering. Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Midlothian, Bastrop, San Marcos, Mansfield, sorted honestly, no rates.