Bronson Canyon
[Image:BronsonCave eastportal.jpg|thumb|The East Portal]
Bronson Canyon, or Bronson Caves, is a section of Griffith Park in Los Angeles that has become known as a filming location for many films and television series, especially Westerns and science fiction, from the early days of motion pictures to the present.
Location and history
Bronson Canyon is located in the southwest section of Griffith Park near the north end of Canyon Drive, which is an extension of Bronson Avenue. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a quarry, originally named Brush Canyon, for excavation of crushed rock used in the construction of city streets–carried out of the quarry by electric train on the Brush Canyon Line. The quarry ceased operation in the late 1920s, leaving the caves behind. The caves became known as the Bronson Caves after the nearby avenue and a hill of that name, giving the area its more popular name of Bronson Canyon. The same street may have indirectly provided the stage name for actor Charles Bronson, as the former Charles Buchinsky is believed to have chosen that name in 1954 after seeing it on a street sign in Hollywood.The craggy quarry remains are pockmarked by what appear to be cave openings, and therefore create an ideal backdrop for filming scenes meant to take place in a lonely southwestern wilderness. Scenes of the main cave entrance are normally filmed in a manner that shows the entrance at an angle because the cave is actually a very short tunnel through the hill, with the rear opening easily visible in a direct shot. The most well-known appearance of the tunnel entrance is likely its use as the entrance to the Batcave in the 1966–68 Batman television series.
Because so many films, in practically every genre, have had scenes filmed there over the last 100 years, the impression of a wide mountainous area has been created in film viewers' minds. In fact the canyon is a rather small v-shaped area with the caves in the middle apex.
Media with scenes filmed or set in the canyon
Films
Lightning Bryce Riders of the Purple Sage The Lightning Warrior The Hurricane Express I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang White Zombie Sagebrush Trail The Three Musketeers The Vampire Bat Mystery Mountain The Phantom Empire Flash Gordon Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island Zorro Rides Again Dick Tracy Returns Hawk of the Wilderness The Lone Ranger Rides Again Adventures of Captain Marvel Call of the Canyon Pirates of Monterey Silver River Atom Man vs. Superman Flame of Araby Unknown World Carson City Robot Monster Captain John Smith and Pocahontas Killers from Space Massacre Canyon Day the World Ended Crashout Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Lone Ranger It Conquered the World The Searchers Men in War The Brain from Planet Arous The Cyclops Attack of the Crab Monsters The Bride and the Beast Earth vs. the Spider Monster from Green Hell The Return of Dracula Teenage Caveman Night of the Blood Beast The Jayhawkers! Invisible Invaders Teenagers from Outer Space The Cape Canaveral Monsters Eegah Invasion of the Star Creatures The Magic Sword Ride the High Country The Gun Hawk They Saved Hitler's Brain The Human Duplicators Batman: The Movie Mondo Bizarro Flaming Frontier Head The Mighty Gorga Equinox Octaman Lost Horizon Flesh Gordon The Human Tornado The Choirboys The White Buffalo Raise the Titanic The Return The Legend of the Lone Ranger The Sword and the Sorcerer Fire and Ice (1983 film) Dreamscape The Evil That Men Do Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives Thrashin' Munchies Blood Diner The Wizard of Speed and Time Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country The Roller Blade Seven Army of Darkness Guns of El Chupacabra La Cucaracha George of the Jungle The End of Violence The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra Cabin Fever Fangs The Scorpion King Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt Tremors 4: The Legend Begins Vampire Blvd. Diabolical Tales D-War Princess of Mars Mega Python vs. Gatoroid Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus The Whisperer in Darkness Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories B.C. Butcher Hail, Caesar! Time Trap Under the Silver Lake Butt Boy Palm Springs[Image:BronsonCave westportal.jpg|thumb|The West Portal that was used as the entrance to the Batcave in the 1960s TV series Batman]
TV series
The A-Team- The Guns of Will SonnetThe Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.The Adventures of Rin Tin TinAlias Smith and JonesBat MastersonBatmanBeauty and the GeekBonanzaCannon (TV series) Combat!Crazy like a fox The Dukes of Hazzard Falcon CrestGunsmokeHave Gun – Will TravelIron Horse The Last ShipLittle House on the PrairieThe Lone RangerMasked RiderMighty Morphin Power RangersMission: Impossible Murder, She Wrote Power Rangers In SpacePower Rangers Lightspeed RescuePower Rangers Lost GalaxyPower Rangers Time ForcePower Rangers TurboPower Rangers Wild ForcePower Rangers ZeoThe MonkeesThe Old ManThe Outer Limits Perry Mason RawhideSalute Your Shorts Star Trek: Deep Space NineStar Trek: EnterpriseStar Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Original SeriesStar Trek: VoyagerTombstone Territory Twin PeaksVVR TroopersThe VirginianThe Wild Wild West
- ''Wonder Woman''