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The Shawshank Redemption location: ‘Shawshank State Prison’: Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio. Built between 1886 and 1910, the reformatory remained in operation until 1990 and was scheduled for demolition when the film was made.
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The story of ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ starts in the city of Portland, Maine, in 1947. However, the vast majority of the events depicted in the film take place in the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary, which is also in Maine. Filming for the movie commenced in June 1993 and principal photography took place over three months. The entire proces...
The primary filming location for ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and the location for the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary is the defunct Ohio State Reformatory in the industrious city of Mansfield, Ohio. Producer Niki Marvin reportedly spent five months scouting prisons across the United States and Canada, looking for the right aesthetic before f...
The final scene in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ in which Andy and Red embrace after reuniting at the Zihuatanejo Beach in Mexico is iconic in cinema history. However, the filming for that particular scene did not actually take place in Mexico at all, but rather, the Carribean island of Saint Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands. More specifically, t...
Limited filming for a number of scenes in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ was also done in a number of locales across the state of Ohio. This includes the quaint village of Butler Ohio, which stands in for the fictional rural town of Buxton in the film. The wood shop scene with Red and a few other inmates was filmed in the city of Upper Sandusky, while ...
Aug 5, 2024 · Main scenes shot inside the Ohio State Reformatory include Brooks' hotel room, Andy's office, the warden's office, the fresh fish line, the tunnel Andy crawled through to freedom and more.
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Sep 7, 2023 · The Shawshank Redemption was primarily filmed in Mansfield, Ohio, using the Ohio State Reformatory as the prison location. Other filming locations in Ohio included the Bissman Building and the Shawshank Woodshop.
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Step into the storied world of the Reformatory, learning about its history as a prison and the shooting location for 1994’s acclaimed film, The Shawshank Redemption. Includes information about the reformatory’s architecture, the warden’s living quarters, and other films and music videos shot onsite.
Aug 4, 2011 · Instead, Shawshank was filmed almost entirely on location, in and around the Rust Belt city of Mansfield, Ohio, about halfway between Columbus and Cleveland.
Aug 7, 2014 · The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. Much of “The Shawshank Redemption” was shot on the reformatory's grounds. Credit... Nick Fancher for The New York Times
