Spoiler Alert…They Weren’t Really In Casablanca, OR Outside!

Spoiler Alert…They Weren’t Really In Casablanca, OR Outside!

Just for fun, here’s a shot of the final scene of ‘Casablanca’ filmed around August 2, 1942. The whole picture was shot on the Warner back lot except for the sequence showing Major Strasser’s arrival, which was filmed at Van Nuys Airport, and a few short clips of stock footage views of Paris.

This scene on the “runway” was purposefully over fogged to hide the deficiencies in the cardboard mock up of a Lockheed Electra which had very short extras around it to help cheat the proportionality. Speaking of cheating, Bogart was two inches shorter than Bergman, so…like in this scene, he stood on blocks and sat on pillows to hide the difference.

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