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Silver Springs

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Celestine Prophecy  
Jeepers Creepers  

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CELESTINE PROPHECY

The Celestine Prophecy

The saga begins when John Woodson whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript containing nine insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditonal family values. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine insights during a series of chance encounters.

 

 


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JEEPERS CREEPERS

Jeepers Creepers

Returning home from a Championship game, a group of varsity basketball players, cheerleaders, and coaches become stranded on the infamous East 9 Highway - only it's the cunning Creeper who has actually crippled their bus. As its 23 horrifying days of flesheating come to an end, the Creeper has embarked on its final voracious feeding frenzy in Poho County. As night falls, the terrified group of young athletes must fight their own fears and prejudices and come together in a seemingly hopeless struggle asainst a winged nightmare, hellbent on stockpiling as many victims as it can on the ultimate night of its grizzly, ritual feast

 

 

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SILVER SPRINGS
[ www.silversprings.com ]

Tarzan
Creature From The Black Lagoon
SeaQuest

Six “Tarzan” movies, the “Sea Hunt” TV series, the horror movie classic “Creature From The Black Lagoon,” National Geographic specials, TV commercials…the list goes on and on of movies, TV shows and commercials that have been shot at Silver Springs over the years. Today, Silver Springs’ crystal clear waters, tropical jungles and thick forests are still serving as locations for the film and TV industries.

Film crews have been attracted to “Florida’s Original Tourist Attraction” since 1916 when the silent movie “The Seven Swans,” starring Richard Barthelmess and Marguerite Clark, was shot at the park. Many more small films followed, but it wasn’t until the ‘30s and ‘40s when Johnny Weissmuller starred in six  “Tarzan” movies shot at Silver Springs that the attraction’s exotic surroundings became a popular location for films.

Since the 1940s, many movies have been shot in and around Silver Springs’ main spring area including “The Yearling” starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, “Distant Drums” with Gary Cooper, “Underwater” starring Jane Russell and Richard Egan, “Blindfold” with Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, “Never Say Never Again” starring Sean Connery, and “Smokey & The Bandit 3” with Jackie Gleason. Military training films on jungle warfare have also been shot at the park.

When television became popular in the early ‘50s, Silver Springs continued as a location for national TV talk shows and adventure series. Some of the shows have been “The Jack Paar Show,” “You Asked For It,” “I Spy,” “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” “SeaQuest” and the soap opera “One Life To Live.” Countless TV specials and commercials have also been shot at the park including The Discovery Channel, Mercury Motors, Johnson & Johnson, DuPont, and Dean Witter.

Images courtesy of Silver Springs Nature's Theme Park.

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