Absolutely great job - Mr. "NICK P WAS HERE" - in your sterling, syncopated eye, for revisiting and lining up visually for we the viewer, as best as possible in circa 2022, these present day locations that still remain, some unfortunately not, from the iconic scenes from this ground breaking movie which thankfully Coppola prevailed upon Paramount Pictures to let him film, as an authentic recreation, of the circa 1945 N.Y.C. towards the end of W.W. ll, and the following game changing period which the Corleone family faced.
Congratulations on a job well done. Your research for this video was impecable. If you do a video about Godfather part 2, you might need to go to the Bronx. A former coworker of mine told me that several scenes were filmed in an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. As a teenager in the 70s he was living there and the producers offered him as his teenage friends to appear as extras for one of the scenes. With the demographics changes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, I am not sure if that Italian neighborhood is still there.
Looking forward for that one, you are doing a great job concerning the greatest movie, ever made, that is really for me. The Godfather part II, but even number one. I have been to Sicily a couple of times and visited Savoca and Forza d ´Agro, The church for the wedding, Vitelli bar and the landscape around Sicily there the movie was shot. Even the locations in Palermo.
This video is so handy for me. Me and my Wife are getting ready for a three week vacation visiting various landmarks from The Godfather. It saved me a ton of work and research. We are from Brazil and on July/2023 we are going to Orlando FL. From there we are renting a 6 people RV to travel USA cross country. One of the places we're going is to New York, Staten Island to take pictures and visit some of these spots. Also we are going to Graceland to visit Elvis Presley resting place. From there we're going across the country all the way to San Francisco CA and down to Los Angeles CA. It's going to be the best vacation ever. Thanks for the video Nick P.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 It will happen this coming July 2023. It will be amazing. We already rented the RV and have everything in place. It will be a lot of fun.
@@delubiod1970 I'm very happy for you. New York City is so amazing you could easily spend an entire week there, but there are many great places to see in America. I lived in America my entire 40 years and never set foot on the west coast yet!
Back in the 70's I stayed in the "Godfather house" on Staten Island. It belonged to the Norton family, their two daughters were the two girl children in the wedding scene.In the basement there were sections of the stone wall they had saved. They also had a wonderful photo album with pics of them with the actors, filming the tomato patch scene ( I was told the plants were flown in from Italy ), and other snapshots from the filming.
I've seen several versions of G1 filming locations however this was the absolute best, great detail, great comparison shots. Well done (hard work). Thank you
The one shot fading from Don Corleone's funeral to the "Hildreth" mausoleum as it stands today was masterful and spot-on. I actually got a quick spine chill as when I watch a pivotal disclosure in a motion picture. The entire film was well done and your narration was professionally low-key and informative. Great job.
Leaps and bounds above other youtubers filming locations. I like how you give us the info then go back and forth from the movie to current day. Most youtubers don't give you enough time or a second look to compare past to present time. Keep up the good work Nicholas, you are by far my favorite youtuber for film locations.
It's unbelievable how places change through the flow of time. And how many have actually gotten worse loosing all the fashion they had at the time. Another wonderful journey in the movie world! Thank you!
@@ta5777 haha Or early next year. I’m trying to include over seas locations, but I can always make additional future location videos for those places. Which will only prob work out for the best. Possibly this Fall!
Superb documentary! I did not know that Garden City was the location of Sonny's assasination (Mitchell Field). My family moved there after living in Staten Island and Queens, nearby the other main 'Godfather' locations. You put them all in perspective, and enhanced our collective memory of Parts I and II. Great Job!
Really enjoyed this location video! I stayed in the Edison Hotel several times in the mid-1970's and remember the first time I recognized that hallway! lol The Godfather is my favorite movie too! Thanks for all the hard work.
Godfather is one of the great movies I've ever watch and looking back to this film location is a reminder how the movie was filmed thank you so much sir nick for sharing this video 👍🙏
This was AWESOME!!! I have most likely passed by many of the filming locations down on Mott St. and Mulberry St. without even realizing one of my favorite movies was filmed there. I actually live about 2 minutes away from the Sands Point Preserve where the interior of Woltz's home was filmed and had the pleasure of touring the home some years back. It looks pretty much as it did in the film 50 years ago. Thank you so much for posting!
I remember when the Corleone house was up for sale a few years ago, and wondering to myself if I had a few million dollars to spare I would have bought it just for it's rightful place in film history. I love that you cover all movies, but especially the 1970s, which i consider the best decade and where the blockbuster was created starting with this film in 1972, and continuing with The Exorcist, Jaws, and Star Wars. Great Job as always Nick. 👍
Thank you for all the incredible details that took to make this. It wasn't easy to get everything lined up perfectly like you did. The "Godfather " would be proud.
That was incredible! Great job with this video. I've always enjoyed comparing before and after shots of filming locations and you nailed it with this. I love the way the tree maintains its general shape over 50 years in front of Clemenza's house. Thanks for posting this video.
Hi Nick, totally agree that The Godfather 1 & 2 were great, great movies. You sir are also great at what you do, and how you do it. Can't wait till the next one.
Thank You Soo Much for doing this video. I’ve always wondered where are these actual locations, now I know. I’ve seen The Godfather over 100+times including the original theatrical release and I can’t get enough of it. Please do another videoI I’ll wait, Thanks again. “You made a video I can’t refuse”
@@NickP If you believe ALPHA psychology is mentally stronger socially, consider this: - Always criticizing friendly (honest) human beings - Women / children sex trafficking rings - Child molestation / child porn - Rape - Murder - Statutory rape / manipulative to younger members of the opposite sex - Predatory psychology (manipulates human beings with low self worth that don’t understand the true intentions of others) - Parasitic (gives attention to peaceful individuals and picks fights unprovoked) - Racism (while blaming others for being the only ones that are racial) - Head games with younger personalities - Head games with sensitive (friendly and honest) personalities - Head games with the opposite sex - Forced car confrontations / car fatalities / head games while driving / road rage - Governments / censorship online to protect hatred, elitism, and authority - Drug dealing crystal meth / opiates / cocaine / fentanyl / other toxic drugs that ruin lives - All violence, war, and jealousy - Anti-science / pro-religion - Anti-psychic / pro-manipulation - Anti-love / pro-money (power) - No character / only selfish - Never grows in personality / never changes beliefs or ideas to the positive (for life) - Groups together in social cliques to share criticisms / shares jealousy with others / judges sensitivity (psychic development) socially - Forcing classism and criticisms on those already in pain from the judgments of other people to boost self worth Ice cold, hard, insensitive, arrogant, forceful, aggressive, disrespectful, bossy, & authoritarian thoughts / ideas / feelings are creations in the material realm. With warm, sensitive minds, fields, and personalities, none of these issues exist. It’s unnecessary drama. Is alpha psychology strong while sensitive personalities are weak? Or is that manipulation and a lie? These are creepy behaviors socially. Sensitive minds are friendly, not manipulative. Sensitive means: “I care about other people.” Alpha means: “I am here to dominate socially.” Nice guys will always single another personality out romantically and stay. Head games are not a necessity when human beings center on each other romantically and show complete honesty. There is no reason for authority. Hypocrites seeking power socially are always the most critical and abusive minds. Pushing self or others to be alpha turns the human mind crazy. Alpha psychology is hatred for others only… Selfish thinking only… Governments are only necessary for simple and shallow minds that refuse to be friends with other people on Earth and cooperate socially. Authoritarians are too dumb to get rid of the government. They created it in the first place. Sensitive minds will reach that goal. Minds focused authoritarian and alpha live a fantasy version of reality. No one has control over the personalities of other people. Stupid minds are into force (division). Strong minds are into collective consciousness (telepathy and friendship). Be strong. th-cam.com/video/OKCblhVxdEo/w-d-xo.html
@@NickP [ Meditation leads to awareness of telepathy, and awareness of telepathy leads to meditation. ] Honesty socially is more important than DOING to impress others. It’s not what we DO to build social value that matters. It’s the respect we are willing to give, as well as the authenticity and sincerity we have within our personalities. The ideas we choose to participate in matter most: they are either friendly or cruel socially. Material wealth, body size, facial features, or DOING will never create authority by default, which is the ability to pass judgments socially the most. Aristocratic men are hypocritical, cowardly, and jealous. Anger and zero accountability are not replacements for honesty and empathy. No one has control over ideas socially. Authoritarianism is a shallow head game: the refusal to share honesty (friendship) socially. Men with negative intentions will show complete bias against ideas supporting emotional freedom, free thinking, and level states of being. Spiritual development, the focus away from the material and towards psychology ONLY (attraction), is promoted as “not important” by conformist men with abusive, fearful, and pragmatic personalities. Spiritual ideas immediately decentralize power, elevate mood, reduce manipulation, and eliminate leadership. Spirituality places much more emphasis on social inclusion, honesty, and collective consciousness. Authoritarians weaponize the material or development in it and use both as reasons to criticize and remain unfriendly (dishonest). Dishonesty is the only way the idea of power may exist. When friendship is seen as more important than power, material development is subservient to mood. When the material is used to boost self worth and reduce others socially, mood is subordinate to power. Joyful ideas supporting free thinking (telepathy, cooperation, and honesty) encourage growth of the human persona, are anti-manipulative, and promote emotional harmony. Men focusing on the immaterial (personality) and on honesty (friendship) have more evolved minds compared to authoritarians consumed with leadership (power). In order to seek status, alphas intentionally remain closed-minded (materialistic), manipulative (controlling), and antagonistic (blame), while also forming intense judgments (jealousy) about more emotionally developed men. Men with mature minds are authentic with others, focus on humor, and shun the idea of emotional leverage. This makes them an unintentional threat socially to serious and conceited men with elitist personalities focused on dominance. Leadership is not warm, nor is it real. It is used in practice to reduce pride in others and to artificially boost feelings of self worth in an individual focused on social image only. Men focusing on telepathy are contradictory socially to alphas promoting leadership. Men with inherent worth (love for others) are offensive to men trying to prove worth (lack of belief in self) with material development. All men know consciousness (Source) and possess a conscience. Possessing a conscience is knowing right from wrong, and refusing to lie about awareness. No man is exempt from understanding Source (love) within, and all of us know we are mentally connected. The idea of comparing human beings to unaware animals is cunning and manipulative. Alphas rely on shared lying socially about awareness in place of being honest (friendly). Character development is ignored with this psychology. Our feelings (thoughts and beliefs) are transmitted and shared vibrationally and mentally. In order to seek power, which is the intention to emotionally reduce others socially, men must feign unawareness of a conscience. Cruel ideas are deliberately participated in and broadcast mentally promoting social dominance. The willful focus on a friendly collective consciousness is a contrarian idea to human animals playing dumb. Being EQUAL TO in the mind socially IS secure, and the ONLY true expression of emotional security that exists. Authoritarians refuse to focus away from being unfair human animals, and remain consumed with social inequality. This forces an unrelaxed, emotionally tense environment driven by melodrama and contempt for others. Alphas are mentally unstable, have manipulative personalities, and possess low feelings of self worth resulting from the intense focus on anger (authority), apathy (indifference), and advantages (dominance). Ideas rooted in mental dominance (alpha psychology) will never promote honesty (friendship). Alphas are homophobic, and are especially critical of friendly men that are emotionally developed. Men with empathy have already worked through insecurities and judgments to focus on telepathy. Prideful men lying about insecurities within use blame and criticisms to seek control over feelings socially in order to project an image of being stronger. This creates artificial versions of emotional security and more value socially enforced with paranoia and anger. Resorting to vibrational attacks for the purpose of self promotion by reducing worth in others mentally leads to violence. Dominance over feelings is impossible, as we all share thinking. Men with emotional IQ are authentic socially and care about calm feelings more. We are telepathic. There is no choice but to be level with others mentally, and to focus on the ultimate truth of what reality is (connection with Source). Evolved men refuse to criticize other people unprovoked or manipulate the truth. Alphas will always share critical thoughts about other people. Men with emotional depth focus on honesty socially more than alphas, creating non-violence. The idea of a social hierarchy (human authority) is degrading and humiliating. It promotes closed-mindedness, fear, and the social inclusion of violence. Thoughtful men focusing on telepathy, and away from conformity, are judged relentlessly for having elevated emotions by alphas refusing to evolve. Lessor minds intentionally share cruel beliefs together promoting the social exclusion of men with empathy socializing positive. These men are mental only in focus, never play head games, and are level in the mind with all. Alphas seek emotional support and validation from each other socially, since the ideas they participate in are rooted in dishonor and physical aggression. Alphas judge honest (friendly) men the most, as they focus away from arrogance entirely, and expect friendship to be returned socially. Passing excessive, unprovoked judgments (authoritarianism) on a better psychology, wavelength, and state of being is jealousy. These criticisms always relate to social harmony and non-violence. Alphas rely on power of numbers to manipulate the truth and to keep primal ideas popular that are intentionally threatening towards men that have already focused away from machismo (lying and fear), and towards telepathy, honesty, and Source. Authoritarians will always promote vibrational attacks against men that have already grown past them in thinking, resulting in petty head games socially. Intelligence is always associated with emotional IQ, and emotional IQ has a direct correlation to the mental focus on social equality. Social equality can only result from honesty (friendship) within the mind. The reason men chose to be honest is because they are aware telepathy is real. It looks stupid to lie about it. Alphas primarily focus on dominance in the mind and social image, and focus entirely away from telepathy within. This reduces their emotional IQ socially. Because of this, alphas will always feel inferior to more honest (friendly) men. Alphas must always focus on acting skills to socialize, since the inner persona is focused only on criticisms, violence, and dishonesty. This creates a shallow personality with a dumb vibe. Forceful thinking men will always share jealousy with men sharing respect with more emotional depth. Only men with emotional IQ can form real personas vibrationally that are not shallow. It is only when the inner mind matches the outer persona that a human being can be likable socially. Shallow men are associated with lying and are not respected when it comes to intelligence, creating situations where they are avoided socially. This angers the minds of men possessing a lower psychology, which often creates unprovoked violent reactions. When thinking is focused on honesty, feelings radiate soft. When thinking is focused on lying, feelings radiate threatening. Machismo and compassion are polar opposites. Machismo will never allow for healing to occur, while compassion is the promotion of both healing and emotional growth. Men focused on compassion will always outsmart less mature men with arrogance sharing no respect. Men will either allow healing (level thinking) to occur socially, or they will attempt to take away pride from others to artificially boost feelings of self worth. Alphas will always attempt to seek an image of more value socially by cheating (violence, greed, or leadership). Judgements from personalities with machismo usually have little substance. Only judgments relating to character issues (dishonesty), violence, or an excessively critical mind have real substance. Passing judgments on men for being honest (friendly) is shallow, arrogant, and completely against the development of our collective consciousness socially. Judgments from alphas are hypocritical, cruel, and reside in dishonor. Shallow judgments from authoritarians will always lead to drama, social inequality, and violence. Alphas focus intensely on cutting other men down unfairly in order to promote a better social image, calling it competitive. It’s time for human beings to let go of classism (psychic warfare) for good. It is jealousy. Secure men are level in the mind and easy to get along with. Alphas resort to conniving and childish head games. Men that focus non-violent and refuse to lie evolve. [ End drama. ] th-cam.com/video/hHcIOwgOHqk/w-d-xo.html
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@@NickP This is a TH-cam playlist I made of songs about telepathy, mental/emotional connections to the spirit world, and vibrational healing from Source: th-cam.com/play/PLAaeGTcewqEhPXwATVMVCsRYiMnEV6wbC.html
that was so interesting, thank you for sharing your research ,I'm viewing from Scotland, I've visited NYC 4 times in the last 20 years, on each visit I enjoyed visiting some locations from The French Connection and Once Upon A Time In America, I had a look around Mott Street looking for Godfather locations, it was quite difficult to visualise the locations from The Godfather as things have changed so much, your film really clarifies a lot of the detail there.
That’s great.. I look forward to visiting your part of the world soon. Btw, I’m also a fan of The French Connection. I’ll be covering that and GF2 in the future.
Great stuff! You really did a great job of finding and viewing the same or close as possible places this movie was filmed. I recently finished the book "Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli" which details the making of this movie. I remember as a kid growing up in North Jersey across from NY City, they filmed a few scenes of a tv movie near my house and the disruption that took place in and around the area they were filming. I can only imagine how these homeowners felt back then. Just wondering if anyone came out of their home while you were at the compound and made any comments to you? I'm sure they get sightseers all the time looking for this exact location. Thanks again.
Thanks! One resident was outside 95 Longfellow and was friendly. We didn’t speak but I think he understood what I was doing. I heard about that book. I have to pick up a copy. I also heard of a 50th anniversary mag made by one of the bigger company’s, maybe Life but not sure.
Wow. That was really good. GFII is still one of my favorites. So any time someone sheds some light on the production... it's a real treat. Thank you so much for putting this together. Very well done.
Woah! I was just re-watching your *amazing* Jaws filming location video yesterday afternoon and guffawing loudly at “that’s some bad hat Harry” only to see this morning that you’ve also uploaded a new gem?! ✨🤯 ESP is real! It’s a Nick P was here kind of week for me. Hooray!! Can’t wait to watch!
Right on! Great to see you back, Nick! I love this flick and can't watch it enough, but do limit my viewing to about 9nce a year so I don't risk wearing it out. Part 2 is also great, but usually skip part 3. Thanks for the great video!
@@jawbone60 oh nice.. I wanted to visit the Sands Point Preserve but they are still not scheduling tours. That’s where the Horse Head and Stable scenes were filmed.
Great stuff- I was actually in the Falaise mansion in Sands Point many years ago. We were in the dining room where Woltz told Hagen about why Johnny Fontaine would never get the movie part. The horsehead scene was actually filmed in the mansion's kitchen, everything was removed by the window and the bed was put in the spot.
You did a magnificent job lining up those shots, I’m impressed! A couple of years ago, I visited NYC and stayed at the Hotel Edison for a week. Unbeknownst to me at the time of booking, the hotel was featured in The Godfather (and Bullets over Broadway, Birdman and Seinfeld) - thankfully I found out before I arrived, which made the trip even more fun. Great video, Nick. Excellent tribute to one of the Greatest Films of All Time
The church you highlighted at 28:31 into the video is correctly named St. Joachim and St. Anne. It is located on the grounds of the Mission Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto. Mount Loretto is a home for displaced children coming from distressed families and/or orphans, and is administered by the Catholic Archdiocese. The church was the tallest on Staten Island and the fire in 1973 burned all but four stone walls that survived. The campus had a catholic school on the grounds and that's where I learned to drive in 1975. I have many fond memories with this place and my youthful years there. I am glad you included it in your montage.
I was 12 when the the first one came out, never really got into the movie. But because of the The Offer being released, I have just yesterday started watching The Godfather. Thank you for this time capsule.
Dude! Nick this was awesome! Thank you for doing this! One of the best films of all time! I had the chance to see the screen used hearse from the film. it’s in a museum here in Ohio, it’s on my channel if you wanna check it out. Would love to cover these locations one day. Thanks again man!
THIS is how you line up. Split screen. Perfect !! Guys at the Edison told me that the bar downstairs was used for the tie scene when I stayed over there?
Thanks a lot! I think that’s what everyone thought for a while because of the confusion with the hallway being used. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did some filming there, and it didn’t make the final cut.
I remember back in 1998 when I was stationed in the 10th Mountain Division I was selected to do Funeral Detail, little did i know it had to do with being involved with an actual funeral. One of the places I selected to do a funeral service was the Brooklyn New York, this is we’re I met many Italian and Greek Mafia. Very Mafioso
Oh for sure, back in those days.. There’s a big connection to the making of this movie. 50 years ago the mafia ran almost everything, especially in NYC. I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole lol. I think I would have gotten too far off track.
When working at the old Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, I watched them film the scene where Don Corleone is being taken out of the hospital and driven away. There were vintage cars parked outside the hospital driveway ramp. A few of us tried sneaking into the background, but we weren't successful. Brando wasn't there since his character couldn't be seen in that shot.
When I moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2015, I researched where Hyman Roth's Miami home was In the Godfather 2 and paid a visit there. It is in a gated community and parked my car a few blocks away and walked in and found the house. The driveway is now circular, and a small woodshed can be seen on the right side of the house. I took a number of pictures before I left. A great find I must say!!
I was down in Miami last October and wanted to swing by that location. Northern Miami, right? I learned it was gated and passed because we were only there for a wknd. I didn’t want to waste any time. That’s awesome you were able to get in there, I heard the DR doubled for Cuba.
Thank you for the video. It was wonderful and thank you for the hard work you did. I couldn’t stop watching. I even had to put a hold on my bathroom break. I subscribed to your videos.
That was really great! I found myself going on Google maps a few times to get a feel of the locations lol. The best movie of all times and this has to be the best film location video of all times, Thank you for that!
Great video. I've watched a lot of movie and TV filming location videos and this is one of the best. Excellent job in marrying up the locations to the film shots. The extra behind the scenes details you gave were great too. Superb job, well done. Thank you for posting.
WOWOWOWOW, alot of work here! I love how you got the exact camera shot (some trees got thicker). Also, the film has dark exposure, and its great that your shots are brighter, so you can see more detail. GFII next?!?
Very interesting--really enjoyed it. Thank you. I saw a video a few years ago of a studio tour showing the inside of the restaurant where Michael shot Sollozzo. Was it filmed i n both places on the inside and on the outside.......
That’s great, thanks… And yes, inside and outside. Hopefully something reopens there sometime soon.. It would be great to check it out. I think a news network went in there about ten years. They lifted up a part of the carpet to show the original floor, pretty mind blowing.
From a massive 'Godfather' fan in England, thank you so much for this amazingly informative and interesting video. My marriage broke up in the early 70s and I went home to my parents in the Midlands. One of my cousins was dying to see 'The Godfather'. It had just opened in a cinema in Birmingham, and he asked me if I wanted to go and see it with him. So we set off in his Mini, and that afternoon I found my favourite film of all time. I think the film is perfect, and that's not a word that I use very much these days.
I agree. ..It is a perfect movie, for all the supporting reasons. Thanks for sharing that info. I look forward to visiting your country sometime in the near future. Greatly appreciate the feedback.
From one Nick to another.. thanks for the effort put into this video. Trivia.. Coppola wanted Michael to make a call following the news of his father.. he was disappointed that there was no phone booth nearby until someone pointed out to him that they could just put a prop one across the street for him to shoot. Hence the fact that there is no evidence of a real phone booth ever being there.
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I had a great time making this one! So much that I went Higgins for Hagen LOL. I look forward to covering Part 2 in the near future.
Absolutely great job - Mr. "NICK P WAS HERE" - in your sterling, syncopated eye, for revisiting and lining up visually for we the viewer, as best as possible in circa 2022, these present day locations that still remain, some unfortunately not, from the iconic scenes from this ground breaking movie which thankfully Coppola prevailed upon Paramount Pictures to let him film, as an authentic recreation, of the circa 1945 N.Y.C. towards the end of W.W. ll, and the following game changing period which the Corleone family faced.
@@meyerhave Greatly appreciate this comment!
Congratulations on a job well done. Your research for this video was impecable. If you do a video about Godfather part 2, you might need to go to the Bronx. A former coworker of mine told me that several scenes were filmed in an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. As a teenager in the 70s he was living there and the producers offered him as his teenage friends to appear as extras for one of the scenes. With the demographics changes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, I am not sure if that Italian neighborhood is still there.
@@hyperbius760 I will def do Part 2.. Hopefully this fall. Thanks for the info and feedback! I will look into it.
Looking forward for that one, you are doing a great job concerning the greatest movie, ever made, that is really for me. The Godfather part II, but even number one. I have been to Sicily a couple of times and visited Savoca and Forza d ´Agro, The church for the wedding, Vitelli bar and the landscape around Sicily there the movie was shot. Even the locations in Palermo.
The Godfather I and II were incredible - never to be replicated. This is why TH-cam is so cool! Thank you for taking us on this journey in time!
What about twilight?
Very interesting.
This video is so handy for me. Me and my Wife are getting ready for a three week vacation visiting various landmarks from The Godfather. It saved me a ton of work and research. We are from Brazil and on July/2023 we are going to Orlando FL. From there we are renting a 6 people RV to travel USA cross country. One of the places we're going is to New York, Staten Island to take pictures and visit some of these spots.
Also we are going to Graceland to visit Elvis Presley resting place.
From there we're going across the country all the way to San Francisco CA and down to Los Angeles CA.
It's going to be the best vacation ever.
Thanks for the video Nick P.
That’s going to be an amazing trip!
@@NickP Sure will..... Can't wait for the second part of it....
How did the trip go? It sounds amazing.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 It will happen this coming July 2023. It will be amazing.
We already rented the RV and have everything in place. It will be a lot of fun.
@@delubiod1970 I'm very happy for you. New York City is so amazing you could easily spend an entire week there, but there are many great places to see in America. I lived in America my entire 40 years and never set foot on the west coast yet!
Back in the 70's I stayed in the "Godfather house" on Staten Island. It belonged to the Norton family, their two daughters were the two girl children in the wedding scene.In the basement there were sections of the stone wall they had saved. They also had a wonderful photo album with pics of them with the actors, filming the tomato patch scene ( I was told the plants were flown in from Italy ), and other snapshots from the filming.
That’s pretty amazing stuff Ralph, and thanks for the info.
I guess they had SAG cards. Must have been connected.
I've seen several versions of G1 filming locations however this was the absolute best, great detail, great comparison shots. Well done (hard work). Thank you
Many thanks Rob!
I think it was filmed in LI NY. None of these videos look anything like the movie.
The one shot fading from Don Corleone's funeral to the "Hildreth" mausoleum as it stands today was masterful and spot-on. I actually got a quick spine chill as when I watch a pivotal disclosure in a motion picture. The entire film was well done and your narration was professionally low-key and informative. Great job.
That’s great, glad to hear it! Thanks so much!
Leaps and bounds above other youtubers filming locations. I like how you give us the info then go back and forth from the movie to current day. Most youtubers don't give you enough time or a second look to compare past to present time. Keep up the good work Nicholas, you are by far my favorite youtuber for film locations.
I really appreciate that Charlie, great to hear it.
It's unbelievable how places change through the flow of time. And how many have actually gotten worse loosing all the fashion they had at the time.
Another wonderful journey in the movie world! Thank you!
although lacking atmosphere & ethnic charm
some areas seem to have gotten better...
@@garyschultz7768 Well, yes and no ...
@@CalebBerman and what has this sermon of yours to do with our comments?
@@michenesi sinners gather here. spread the word, Caleb.
This world gets uglier and uglier for every year that passes.
You are the Godfather of filming location video makers. Now on to Godfather II!
Lol thanks a lot! I can’t to do that one. I’m hoping to visit Italy soon to include those locations as well.
@@NickP Hopefully later this year? haha
@@ta5777 haha Or early next year. I’m trying to include over seas locations, but I can always make additional future location videos for those places. Which will only prob work out for the best. Possibly this Fall!
Superb documentary! I did not know that Garden City was the location of Sonny's assasination (Mitchell Field). My family moved there after living in
Staten Island and Queens, nearby the other main 'Godfather' locations. You put them all in perspective, and enhanced our collective memory of Parts I and II.
Great Job!
Awesome, many thanks!
My father was stationed at Mitchell Field in 1951-52.
Really enjoyed this location video! I stayed in the Edison Hotel several times in the mid-1970's and remember the first time I recognized that hallway! lol The Godfather is my favorite movie too! Thanks for all the hard work.
Very cool, and thank you!
Godfather is one of the great movies I've ever watch and looking back to this film location is a reminder how the movie was filmed thank you so much sir nick for sharing this video 👍🙏
This was AWESOME!!! I have most likely passed by many of the filming locations down on Mott St. and Mulberry St. without even realizing one of my favorite movies was filmed there. I actually live about 2 minutes away from the Sands Point Preserve where the interior of Woltz's home was filmed and had the pleasure of touring the home some years back. It looks pretty much as it did in the film 50 years ago. Thank you so much for posting!
Very cool. I am going to visit Sands Point whenever they resume tours. Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You’re attention for detail is phenomenal. Nice one Nick 👍
That’s mighty kind of you, thanks a lot!
I remember when the Corleone house was up for sale a few years ago, and wondering to myself if I had a few million dollars to spare I would have bought it just for it's rightful place in film history. I love that you cover all movies, but especially the 1970s, which i consider the best decade and where the blockbuster was created starting with this film in 1972, and continuing with The Exorcist, Jaws, and Star Wars. Great Job as always Nick. 👍
Such a great decade in film history..
It’s great to hear how your enjoying the videos! I really appreciate it John.
Thank you for all the incredible details that took to make this. It wasn't easy to get everything lined up perfectly like you did. The "Godfather " would be proud.
Thanks a lot Tony!
I agree. He did an amazing job matching these locations which honestly look the same for the most part.
That was incredible! Great job with this video. I've always enjoyed comparing before and after shots of filming locations and you nailed it with this. I love the way the tree maintains its general shape over 50 years in front of Clemenza's house. Thanks for posting this video.
That’s great to hear, and thank you!
Hi Nick, totally agree that The Godfather 1 & 2 were great, great movies. You sir are also great at what you do, and how you do it. Can't wait till the next one.
Awesome.. Thanks so much!
I hope to have Part 2 done later this year.
Thank You Soo Much for doing this video. I’ve always wondered where are these actual locations, now I know. I’ve seen The Godfather over 100+times including the original theatrical release and I can’t get enough of it. Please do another videoI I’ll wait, Thanks again. “You made a video I can’t refuse”
Haha, will do! Thanks a lot.
Love these videos!!!! You deserve at least 100K subscribers!
You are so right. He does an outstanding job and deserves at least 100k subscribers.
Great to hear! Thanks a lot!!
Thank you for taking all of us on a tour 50 years later. Great video and commentary
Excellent work! I greatly appreciate all the hard work you put into these. :)
Many thanks!
@@NickP If you believe ALPHA psychology is mentally stronger socially, consider this:
- Always criticizing friendly (honest) human beings
- Women / children sex trafficking rings
- Child molestation / child porn
- Rape
- Murder
- Statutory rape / manipulative to younger members of the opposite sex
- Predatory psychology (manipulates human beings with low self worth that don’t understand the true intentions of others)
- Parasitic (gives attention to peaceful individuals and picks fights unprovoked)
- Racism (while blaming others for being the only ones that are racial)
- Head games with younger personalities
- Head games with sensitive (friendly and honest) personalities
- Head games with the opposite sex
- Forced car confrontations / car fatalities / head games while driving / road rage
- Governments / censorship online to protect hatred, elitism, and authority
- Drug dealing crystal meth / opiates / cocaine / fentanyl / other toxic drugs that ruin lives
- All violence, war, and jealousy
- Anti-science / pro-religion
- Anti-psychic / pro-manipulation
- Anti-love / pro-money (power)
- No character / only selfish
- Never grows in personality / never changes beliefs or ideas to the positive (for life)
- Groups together in social cliques to share criticisms / shares jealousy with others / judges sensitivity (psychic development) socially
- Forcing classism and criticisms on those already in pain from the judgments of other people to boost self worth
Ice cold, hard, insensitive, arrogant, forceful, aggressive, disrespectful, bossy, & authoritarian thoughts / ideas / feelings are creations in the material realm.
With warm, sensitive minds, fields, and personalities, none of these issues exist. It’s unnecessary drama.
Is alpha psychology strong while sensitive personalities are weak? Or is that manipulation and a lie? These are creepy behaviors socially.
Sensitive minds are friendly, not manipulative. Sensitive means: “I care about other people.” Alpha means: “I am here to dominate socially.”
Nice guys will always single another personality out romantically and stay. Head games are not a necessity when human beings center on each other romantically and show complete honesty.
There is no reason for authority. Hypocrites seeking power socially are always the most critical and abusive minds.
Pushing self or others to be alpha turns the human mind crazy. Alpha psychology is hatred for others only… Selfish thinking only…
Governments are only necessary for simple and shallow minds that refuse to be friends with other people on Earth and cooperate socially.
Authoritarians are too dumb to get rid of the government. They created it in the first place. Sensitive minds will reach that goal.
Minds focused authoritarian and alpha live a fantasy version of reality. No one has control over the personalities of other people.
Stupid minds are into force (division). Strong minds are into collective consciousness (telepathy and friendship). Be strong.
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@@NickP [ Meditation leads to awareness of telepathy, and awareness of telepathy leads to meditation. ]
Honesty socially is more important than DOING to impress others. It’s not what we DO to build social value that matters. It’s the respect we are willing to give, as well as the authenticity and sincerity we have within our personalities. The ideas we choose to participate in matter most: they are either friendly or cruel socially. Material wealth, body size, facial features, or DOING will never create authority by default, which is the ability to pass judgments socially the most. Aristocratic men are hypocritical, cowardly, and jealous. Anger and zero accountability are not replacements for honesty and empathy. No one has control over ideas socially.
Authoritarianism is a shallow head game: the refusal to share honesty (friendship) socially. Men with negative intentions will show complete bias against ideas supporting emotional freedom, free thinking, and level states of being. Spiritual development, the focus away from the material and towards psychology ONLY (attraction), is promoted as “not important” by conformist men with abusive, fearful, and pragmatic personalities. Spiritual ideas immediately decentralize power, elevate mood, reduce manipulation, and eliminate leadership. Spirituality places much more emphasis on social inclusion, honesty, and collective consciousness. Authoritarians weaponize the material or development in it and use both as reasons to criticize and remain unfriendly (dishonest). Dishonesty is the only way the idea of power may exist. When friendship is seen as more important than power, material development is subservient to mood. When the material is used to boost self worth and reduce others socially, mood is subordinate to power.
Joyful ideas supporting free thinking (telepathy, cooperation, and honesty) encourage growth of the human persona, are anti-manipulative, and promote emotional harmony. Men focusing on the immaterial (personality) and on honesty (friendship) have more evolved minds compared to authoritarians consumed with leadership (power). In order to seek status, alphas intentionally remain closed-minded (materialistic), manipulative (controlling), and antagonistic (blame), while also forming intense judgments (jealousy) about more emotionally developed men. Men with mature minds are authentic with others, focus on humor, and shun the idea of emotional leverage. This makes them an unintentional threat socially to serious and conceited men with elitist personalities focused on dominance. Leadership is not warm, nor is it real. It is used in practice to reduce pride in others and to artificially boost feelings of self worth in an individual focused on social image only. Men focusing on telepathy are contradictory socially to alphas promoting leadership. Men with inherent worth (love for others) are offensive to men trying to prove worth (lack of belief in self) with material development.
All men know consciousness (Source) and possess a conscience. Possessing a conscience is knowing right from wrong, and refusing to lie about awareness. No man is exempt from understanding Source (love) within, and all of us know we are mentally connected. The idea of comparing human beings to unaware animals is cunning and manipulative. Alphas rely on shared lying socially about awareness in place of being honest (friendly). Character development is ignored with this psychology. Our feelings (thoughts and beliefs) are transmitted and shared vibrationally and mentally. In order to seek power, which is the intention to emotionally reduce others socially, men must feign unawareness of a conscience. Cruel ideas are deliberately participated in and broadcast mentally promoting social dominance. The willful focus on a friendly collective consciousness is a contrarian idea to human animals playing dumb. Being EQUAL TO in the mind socially IS secure, and the ONLY true expression of emotional security that exists. Authoritarians refuse to focus away from being unfair human animals, and remain consumed with social inequality. This forces an unrelaxed, emotionally tense environment driven by melodrama and contempt for others.
Alphas are mentally unstable, have manipulative personalities, and possess low feelings of self worth resulting from the intense focus on anger (authority), apathy (indifference), and advantages (dominance). Ideas rooted in mental dominance (alpha psychology) will never promote honesty (friendship). Alphas are homophobic, and are especially critical of friendly men that are emotionally developed. Men with empathy have already worked through insecurities and judgments to focus on telepathy. Prideful men lying about insecurities within use blame and criticisms to seek control over feelings socially in order to project an image of being stronger. This creates artificial versions of emotional security and more value socially enforced with paranoia and anger. Resorting to vibrational attacks for the purpose of self promotion by reducing worth in others mentally leads to violence. Dominance over feelings is impossible, as we all share thinking. Men with emotional IQ are authentic socially and care about calm feelings more. We are telepathic. There is no choice but to be level with others mentally, and to focus on the ultimate truth of what reality is (connection with Source). Evolved men refuse to criticize other people unprovoked or manipulate the truth. Alphas will always share critical thoughts about other people. Men with emotional depth focus on honesty socially more than alphas, creating non-violence.
The idea of a social hierarchy (human authority) is degrading and humiliating. It promotes closed-mindedness, fear, and the social inclusion of violence. Thoughtful men focusing on telepathy, and away from conformity, are judged relentlessly for having elevated emotions by alphas refusing to evolve. Lessor minds intentionally share cruel beliefs together promoting the social exclusion of men with empathy socializing positive. These men are mental only in focus, never play head games, and are level in the mind with all. Alphas seek emotional support and validation from each other socially, since the ideas they participate in are rooted in dishonor and physical aggression. Alphas judge honest (friendly) men the most, as they focus away from arrogance entirely, and expect friendship to be returned socially. Passing excessive, unprovoked judgments (authoritarianism) on a better psychology, wavelength, and state of being is jealousy. These criticisms always relate to social harmony and non-violence. Alphas rely on power of numbers to manipulate the truth and to keep primal ideas popular that are intentionally threatening towards men that have already focused away from machismo (lying and fear), and towards telepathy, honesty, and Source. Authoritarians will always promote vibrational attacks against men that have already grown past them in thinking, resulting in petty head games socially.
Intelligence is always associated with emotional IQ, and emotional IQ has a direct correlation to the mental focus on social equality. Social equality can only result from honesty (friendship) within the mind. The reason men chose to be honest is because they are aware telepathy is real. It looks stupid to lie about it. Alphas primarily focus on dominance in the mind and social image, and focus entirely away from telepathy within. This reduces their emotional IQ socially. Because of this, alphas will always feel inferior to more honest (friendly) men. Alphas must always focus on acting skills to socialize, since the inner persona is focused only on criticisms, violence, and dishonesty. This creates a shallow personality with a dumb vibe. Forceful thinking men will always share jealousy with men sharing respect with more emotional depth. Only men with emotional IQ can form real personas vibrationally that are not shallow. It is only when the inner mind matches the outer persona that a human being can be likable socially. Shallow men are associated with lying and are not respected when it comes to intelligence, creating situations where they are avoided socially. This angers the minds of men possessing a lower psychology, which often creates unprovoked violent reactions. When thinking is focused on honesty, feelings radiate soft. When thinking is focused on lying, feelings radiate threatening.
Machismo and compassion are polar opposites. Machismo will never allow for healing to occur, while compassion is the promotion of both healing and emotional growth. Men focused on compassion will always outsmart less mature men with arrogance sharing no respect. Men will either allow healing (level thinking) to occur socially, or they will attempt to take away pride from others to artificially boost feelings of self worth. Alphas will always attempt to seek an image of more value socially by cheating (violence, greed, or leadership). Judgements from personalities with machismo usually have little substance. Only judgments relating to character issues (dishonesty), violence, or an excessively critical mind have real substance. Passing judgments on men for being honest (friendly) is shallow, arrogant, and completely against the development of our collective consciousness socially. Judgments from alphas are hypocritical, cruel, and reside in dishonor. Shallow judgments from authoritarians will always lead to drama, social inequality, and violence. Alphas focus intensely on cutting other men down unfairly in order to promote a better social image, calling it competitive.
It’s time for human beings to let go of classism (psychic warfare) for good. It is jealousy. Secure men are level in the mind and easy to get along with. Alphas resort to conniving and childish head games. Men that focus non-violent and refuse to lie evolve.
[ End drama. ]
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Well done Nick. Thank you for this and all the hard work!
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for all your hard work Nick!
that was so interesting, thank you for sharing your research ,I'm viewing from Scotland, I've visited NYC 4 times in the last 20 years, on each visit I enjoyed visiting some locations from The French Connection and Once Upon A Time In America, I had a look around Mott Street looking for Godfather locations, it was quite difficult to visualise the locations from The Godfather as things have changed so much, your film really clarifies a lot of the detail there.
That’s great.. I look forward to visiting your part of the world soon. Btw, I’m also a fan of The French Connection. I’ll be covering that and GF2 in the future.
@@NickP hey Nick, thanks for the reply! I look forward to your French Connection coverage!!
Great stuff! You really did a great job of finding and viewing the same or close as possible places this movie was filmed. I recently finished the book "Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli" which details the making of this movie. I remember as a kid growing up in North Jersey across from NY City, they filmed a few scenes of a tv movie near my house and the disruption that took place in and around the area they were filming. I can only imagine how these homeowners felt back then. Just wondering if anyone came out of their home while you were at the compound and made any comments to you? I'm sure they get sightseers all the time looking for this exact location. Thanks again.
Thanks! One resident was outside 95 Longfellow and was friendly. We didn’t speak but I think he understood what I was doing.
I heard about that book. I have to pick up a copy. I also heard of a 50th anniversary mag made by one of the bigger company’s, maybe Life but not sure.
Truly amazing, Nick! I really love your style and this is one of the greatest of all time
Thanks a lot bro! Likewise!!
Wow. That was really good.
GFII is still one of my favorites. So any time someone sheds some light on the production... it's a real treat.
Thank you so much for putting this together. Very well done.
I really appreciate that, and look forward to covering that classic as well.
@@NickP Oops! Wrong movie. But still... thanks for taking the time to make that possible. Enjoyed every minute of it. Looking forward to the next one!
@@Seemsayin No worries bud. I actually mispronounced Tom Hagen’s name a couple times in this video lol.
@@NickP No big deal, Nick. There are greater tragedies in life. You just keep doing what you're doing. Now... get back to work!
@@Seemsayin haha that’s right!!
Now this is how you do a location video i have seen a few Godfather locations in this one in my opinion is the best thanks, Nick.
Thanks for the great feedback jimmy.
Woah! I was just re-watching your *amazing* Jaws filming location video yesterday afternoon and guffawing loudly at “that’s some bad hat Harry” only to see this morning that you’ve also uploaded a new gem?! ✨🤯 ESP is real! It’s a Nick P was here kind of week for me. Hooray!! Can’t wait to watch!
Hahaha that’s great!! Hope you enjoy it!!
The scene where Quint is sharing a few laughs with Brody and Hooper and then tells them about the USS Indianapolis was my favorite part of the film.
That was GREAT! I especially like how you got the angles of the shots exactly right and lined up so perfectly! I'm sure that took some serious effort!
Thanks so much!
Thank you,most enjoyable.
Iconic film and a real treat revisiting the locations in later years.
Thoroughly enjoyed this 🙏
That’s awesome, and thank you for the great feedback.
Nice job!! Congratulations 🎊 Pretty amazing shots!
Thanks!!
Right on! Great to see you back, Nick! I love this flick and can't watch it enough, but do limit my viewing to about 9nce a year so I don't risk wearing it out. Part 2 is also great, but usually skip part 3. Thanks for the great video!
That’s so funny Dave. I do the same thing, so it never gets old. Part 2 is great and general do the same with Part 3 lol. Thanks a lot buddy!
@@NickP It's a shame about part 3 as it had real potential. I think he just did it too late & ran out of steam.
@@LeAnimal65 I agree.. Kind of winged and forced.
Hi nick another great video you have done, classic film too. The owners of the house were given a piece of the wall after they turned it down .
@@jamesmccabe6562 oh wow! Glad you enjoyed it James.. Many thanks!
Wow! Great work. Really appreciate you taking the time to put these together.
Very thorough! I really enjoyed that! Nice work.
I really appreciate that!
@@NickP Living on L. I. my entire life especially made it that much more interesting.
@@jawbone60 oh nice.. I wanted to visit the Sands Point Preserve but they are still not scheduling tours. That’s where the Horse Head and Stable scenes were filmed.
Outstanding research and production. Very informative, interesting and entertaining. Thank you!
Thank you Mike!
Was just watching The Godfather a couple nights ago wondering about the locations. You read my mind!
Wow. What a great video. Love the split screens. You did a great job on this one Nick!!!!
Thanks a lot brother!
This is my favourite movie of all time, and I love the way you have created the twin views so we can see them both, old and new. Great job, thank you.
That’s great, many thanks!
The Godfather is the best movie all time! Tks for this video.
Great work, Nick !
Great stuff- I was actually in the Falaise mansion in Sands Point many years ago. We were in the dining room where Woltz told Hagen about why Johnny Fontaine would never get the movie part. The horsehead scene was actually filmed in the mansion's kitchen, everything was removed by the window and the bed was put in the spot.
Thanks for the info! I hope they resume tours sometime soon.
You did a magnificent job lining up those shots, I’m impressed! A couple of years ago, I visited NYC and stayed at the Hotel Edison for a week. Unbeknownst to me at the time of booking, the hotel was featured in The Godfather (and Bullets over Broadway, Birdman and Seinfeld) - thankfully I found out before I arrived, which made the trip even more fun. Great video, Nick. Excellent tribute to one of the Greatest Films of All Time
Very cool.. I really appreciate the feedback!
Absolutely a fantastic video! Thank You!
Really great. Thanks for your excellent work!
I'm so glad you got the location of sonny assassination. I always wanted to see a physical location and I haven't until today. Great job on your video
Happy to make the connection, and thanks a lot!
I’ve always liked Marlon Brando as The Godfather and Jor El from Superman the movie.
Looking forward to watching this one, I always love your work. Hope all is well brother.
Likewise my bro, many thanks!!!
Thank you for this spectacular video! I have always wondered what the filming locations looked like. ❤️
Thank you for that wonderful feedback!
The church you highlighted at 28:31 into the video is correctly named St. Joachim and St. Anne. It is located on the grounds of the Mission Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto. Mount Loretto is a home for displaced children coming from distressed families and/or orphans, and is administered by the Catholic Archdiocese. The church was the tallest on Staten Island and the fire in 1973 burned all but four stone walls that survived. The campus had a catholic school on the grounds and that's where I learned to drive in 1975. I have many fond memories with this place and my youthful years there. I am glad you included it in your montage.
Thanks for the info!
Greatest movie ever made next to Godfather part 2 nothing can come close. Legendary! Pacino a star was born ✨✨🙌🏼
Incredbile work thanks nick look forward to the next one 🇬🇧👍🏾
The actor who played Carlo is friggin hilarious. Check out godfather of Hollywood. The dude is completely full of hot air, but his stories are great.
You have a gift, my friend. Especially with your Wanderers episode and how you found those sites - I was hooked.
Thanks so much!
That split screen is the best! So much easier to see before and after! Thanks for your hard work!
Thank you!
This is one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. Thank you so much for your due diligence. Loved it.
Excellent, excellent, excellent! You've answered several inquiries that I hadn't been able to find answers to for over 30 years! Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks awesome, and thank you!
OUTSTANDING. Paramount should pay you to include this as a bonus featurette in future Godfather box sets
I really appreciate that, many thanks!
I was 12 when the the first one came out, never really got into the movie. But because of the The Offer being released, I have just yesterday started watching The Godfather. Thank you for this time capsule.
Dude! Nick this was awesome! Thank you for doing this! One of the best films of all time! I had the chance to see the screen used hearse from the film. it’s in a museum here in Ohio, it’s on my channel if you wanna check it out. Would love to cover these locations one day. Thanks again man!
Thanks a lot Jordan! That’s really cool. I will def check that out!
THIS is how you line up. Split screen.
Perfect !!
Guys at the Edison told me that the bar downstairs was used for the tie scene when I stayed over there?
Thanks a lot!
I think that’s what everyone thought for a while because of the confusion with the hallway being used. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did some filming there, and it didn’t make the final cut.
I remember back in 1998 when I was stationed in the 10th Mountain Division
I was selected to do Funeral Detail, little did i know it had to do with being involved with an actual funeral. One of the places I selected to do a funeral service was the Brooklyn New York, this is we’re I met many Italian and Greek Mafia. Very Mafioso
Oh for sure, back in those days.. There’s a big connection to the making of this movie. 50 years ago the mafia ran almost everything, especially in NYC. I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole lol. I think I would have gotten too far off track.
Brilliant Looking forward to seeing your future videos . I'm watching from England!!!
Many thanks!
I really like how you do split screen comparisons! Lots of work goes into this, much appreciated!
Thank you Diane!
Boy, thank you sir for doing all the leg work. Most people would have just used stock photos, especially of Radio City. Great job.
Thank you!
I’ll be doing Part 2 in the future
Thanks for going to all the trouble of lining up the shots. That was the best part!
When working at the old Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, I watched them film the scene where Don Corleone is being taken out of the hospital and driven away. There were vintage cars parked outside the hospital driveway ramp. A few of us tried sneaking into the background, but we weren't successful. Brando wasn't there since his character couldn't be seen in that shot.
this is one of the best things I've ever seen on YT. THANX, Nick P
That’s greatly appreciated Tony.
When I moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2015, I researched where Hyman Roth's Miami home was In the Godfather 2 and paid a visit there. It is in a gated community and parked my car a few blocks away and walked in and found the house. The driveway is now circular, and a small woodshed can be seen on the right side of the house. I took a number of pictures before I left. A great find I must say!!
I was down in Miami last October and wanted to swing by that location. Northern Miami, right? I learned it was gated and passed because we were only there for a wknd. I didn’t want to waste any time. That’s awesome you were able to get in there, I heard the DR doubled for Cuba.
Thank you for the video. It was wonderful and thank you for the hard work you did. I couldn’t stop watching. I even had to put a hold on my bathroom break. I subscribed to your videos.
Haha that’s awesome! Many thanks!
That was really great! I found myself going on Google maps a few times to get a feel of the locations lol. The best movie of all times and this has to be the best film location video of all times, Thank you for that!
Greatly appreciated!
This video is probably a hundred times better made than the crappy miniseries on Paramount Plus
That miniseries was amazing, don't be so cynical
That show is great my friend
Great video. I've watched a lot of movie and TV filming location videos and this is one of the best. Excellent job in marrying up the locations to the film shots. The extra behind the scenes details you gave were great too. Superb job, well done. Thank you for posting.
I really appreciate that, thank you!
Great job filming, editing, spilt screen and the music !!
Thanks a lot!
Well done, Sir. Nice job trying to line up shots that look nothing like the original.
I absolutly love the millimetre precision of getting the angles right.
Thank you for that it makes all the difference👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome! That is a cool looking cemetery... Looks very similar to the one where frank nitti and al Capone are buried I visited in chicagoland!
Nice!
Are you going to tribeca film festival?
This was super amazing. Loved every bit of it
Loved the video and walk through of the Godfather locations. I’ve been to a few of the locations without realising it, Great job Thanks.
Excellent work taking us back
Excellent video .. thank you so much for producing it so well!
Thanks a lot!
Luca Brasi’s foot steps were absolutely brilliant..creepy
Excellent! Looking forward to your Godfather Pt. 2 video. Thanks!
Like most people, when The Godfather is on TV, I have to stop and watch to the end lol Coppola's masterpiece. Thanks for the "Cool Content" Nick!
Yep lol.. Thanks a lot Wayne!
Good stuff! Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for sharing this with the world, great job!! Rio de janeiro, Brazil
Thank you!
Absolutely incredible you did an amazing job that was really awesome thank you
Thanks so much!
Great editing. Thanks for posting . One of my top 3 films of all time
Glad you enjoyed it, many thanks!
WOWOWOWOW, alot of work here! I love how you got the exact camera shot (some trees got thicker). Also, the film has dark exposure, and its great that your shots are brighter, so you can see more detail. GFII next?!?
Awesome! Thanks a lot! And yes, I will do that sometime soon!
If you ever make it out to Santo Domingo, i can show you where they did the grenade and hotel scenes for godfather 2! Love the channel man
One day! Hopefully soon. I want to get the Italy shots as well. I appreciate the offer which I may take you up on!
Amazing, once again. Love your videos 🙏 all the way from sunny England 🏴 😆
Many thanks Paul! Lol
Very interesting--really enjoyed it. Thank you. I saw a video a few years ago of a studio tour showing the inside of the restaurant where Michael shot Sollozzo. Was it filmed i n both places on the inside and on the outside.......
That’s great, thanks… And yes, inside and outside. Hopefully something reopens there sometime soon.. It would be great to check it out. I think a news network went in there about ten years. They lifted up a part of the carpet to show the original floor, pretty mind blowing.
Thank you for the virtual tour!
EXCELLENT WORK MY FRIEND WELL DONE I THOROUGHLY ENJOY IT THANKS FOR SHARING
That’s awesome, and thank you!
Great work finding these locations. Such a classic gangster film .
Thanks a lot David.. 100%
And it is aging perfectly well.
Well done ... The Godfather movies are always worth watching. Good flicks back then
From a massive 'Godfather' fan in England, thank you so much for this amazingly informative and interesting video. My marriage broke up in the early 70s and I went home to my parents in the Midlands. One of my cousins was dying to see 'The Godfather'. It had just opened in a cinema in Birmingham, and he asked me if I wanted to go and see it with him. So we set off in his Mini, and that afternoon I found my favourite film of all time. I think the film is perfect, and that's not a word that I use very much these days.
I agree. ..It is a perfect movie, for all the supporting reasons. Thanks for sharing that info. I look forward to visiting your country sometime in the near future. Greatly appreciate the feedback.
From one Nick to another.. thanks for the effort put into this video. Trivia.. Coppola wanted Michael to make a call following the news of his father.. he was disappointed that there was no phone booth nearby until someone pointed out to him that they could just put a prop one across the street for him to shoot. Hence the fact that there is no evidence of a real phone booth ever being there.
That’s awesome, and makes a lot of sense. Glad to hear you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the info!
I'm from Liverpool, UK so it was amazing to see these filming locations. Godfather I & II were both fabulous films... Love Them ❤️❤️
Nice!.. Agreed, I’m going to try to do Part 2 later this year.