New tour offers glimpse of New Orleans movie sites

[December 21, 2011]  NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A new multimedia tour being offered in New Orleans takes passengers to locations where famous movie scenes were filmed and shows them a clip from the movie on site.

A van equipped with video screens and a speaker system carries tourists to places such as near New Orleans' vintage streetcars, where they're shown a scene of Vivien Leigh riding the line in the 1951 movie "A Streetcar Named Desire."

New Orleans Movie Tours was started this summer by the husband-wife team of Jonathan and Michelle Ray, movie lovers from Willington, Conn., who moved to New Orleans roughly 10 years ago.

The tour appears to be one of only a handful like it in the U.S. Such tours are also offered in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Savannah, Ga.

[Associated Press; By STACEY PLAISANCE]

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