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San Francisco Movie Tours

San Francisco Movie Tours
San Francisco
With more than 600 major motion pictures portraying scenes from locations around the Golden City, San Francisco is easily one of the best spots to get caught up in the lights of cinematic sightseeing. For the past six years, San Francisco Movie Tours has specialized in group tours aboard the company’s Theater on Wheels or as a hop-on service for the group’s vehicle/bus. The company plans half- and full-day customizable tours to accommodate groups’ schedules, special interests, content requests and budgets.

Each trip combines a comprehensive city tour of the major tourist sites of San Francisco with a look at San Francisco through the eyes of Hollywood. The experience includes more than 70 clips from 55 movies filmed all over the city from the 1920s to the 2010s, among them such films as “Vertigo,” “Dirty Harry,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Full House,” “Princess Diaries” and “The Birds.”

“Moviemaking and San Francisco are inseparable,” said Bryan Rice, owner of San Francisco Movie Tours, who loves seeing his guests get that “Oh, wow” look on their face during each tour. “We offer a unique tour of San Francisco that goes beyond the mundane; all of our guides are actors and/or comedians, so they are very energetic and truly enjoy interacting with guests.”

www.sanfranciscomovietours.com

Chicago Film Tour
Chicago
Now in its fifth season, the Chicago Film Tour takes groups on a 30-mile ride through cinematic history along the streets of the Windy City where movies such as “The Blues Brothers,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “The Fugitive” and “The Untouchables” were filmed. The company can provide the group with a tour vehicle, or it can provide a step-on service for tour motorcoaches.

The standard tour covers all of Chicago’s film history in two hours; the Blues Brothers tour takes groups on a 90-minute ride through Jake and Elwood’s Chicagoland haunts. The Blues Brothers tour also takes a look into the city’s blues history, with stops including the recording studio where both Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters laid down their tracks.

“Chicago actually has a pretty big film history,” said John Brinkman, owner of Chicago Film Tour, whose tours show groups film clips as they pass by filming sites for movies such as “The Dark Knight,” “Road to Perdition,” “The Fugitive” and “The Sting.” “We show all those clips and tell interesting backstories about the films; but also for groups, we can do trivia or let them have lunch in between at a place like O’Brien’s Restaurant, where ‘The Color of Money’ filmed a famous scene with Tom Cruise and Paul Newman.”

www.chicagofilmtour.com

Kristy Alpert

Kristy Alpert has traversed more than 50 countries in her quest to uncover stories for her outlets in Food & Wine, Men's Health, Group Travel Leader, American Way, and more. When she's not on the road, you can find her teaching yoga and exploring around her new home in Germany with her husband and her Boston Terrier, Tobias.