Old Tucson Studios

"Old Tucson represents neither a Hollywood-based studio nor a shooting location but instead represents both a studio and collective of shooting locations. Old Tucson can be better understood as a central hub for a collection of places, including three developed backlots at distinct locations, and as the operational center for the routinized production practices that occur on these ancillary sites" (Gleich and Lukinbeal 2018).

Putting Pictures in the 'Place'

Lukinbeal, Chris. The antithetical cartographies of geospatial cinema. The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities. Editors, Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti. Geovisualization by Chris Lukinbeal

Also featured in CInematic Cartography's last chapter.

Gleich, Joshua, and Chris Lukinbeal. 2022. A Layered Landscape of Western Movie Production: Combining Geographical and Historiographical Methods at Old Tucson Studios. Editor Eric Stein. In, Routledge Companion to Screen Media and the City.

Gleich, Joshua and Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).

Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).

Bad Elf's Larry Fox and Dr. Nik Smilkovsky

Mapping Historical Western Film Landscapes, Part #1A few weeks ago I got the privilege to work on a collaborative mapping project with the University of Arizona, the GPS company Bad Elf, and the Old Tucson Film Studio. Joining efforts with University of Arizona film professor Dr.

Mapping Historical Western Film Landscapes - Part #2This is my second entry about an ongoing collaborative research project by the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Old Tucson. If you are interested in the first entry it can be found here.

Unmanned Aerial Systems Mapping of a Historic Western Film Landscape - Part #3This is my third entry about an ongoing collaborative research project by the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Old Tucson. If you are interested in the first or second entry, please visit these links; Part I and Part II.

UA MS-GIST Alumnus Alba Ramos ground truthing an aquifer

Alba's 3d image geocoding of movie Arizona to Drone basemap

Geoslam's Taylor Handschuh terrestrial LiDAR scan of OTS

The Map the Precedes the Territory: Colombia's Picture's Map of OTS

Old Tucson Studios

Putting Pictures in the 'Place'

Gleich, Joshua, and Chris Lukinbeal. 2022. A Layered Landscape of Western Movie Production: Combining Geographical and Historiographical Methods at Old Tucson Studios. Editor Eric Stein. In, Routledge Companion to Screen Media and the City.

Gleich, Joshua and Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).

Lukinbeal, Chris. 2018. A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson. Mediapolis Journal 3(4).

Jan 1994, 4 months before a fire would blaze down Kansas Street

Temporal development of a cinematic theme park