hey guys we're gonna have some fun today and have a lot of fun here in the
Mansfield Ohio area we are going to retrace some of the filming locations
from the iconic movie Shawshank Redemption and so to start the day
here's where the film actually started at this cabin here actually Andy
Dufresne parked his vehicle here had a few drinks thought about doing some bad
stuff when he found out what was going on over here in this cabin which they're
actually doing a bridal shower here today but this is where it all started
whether or not he committed the crime or not it's still up in the air right but
yeah this is where potentially he made some bad choices and this is where the
film kicks off from here well we got to go to the big house huh going to the big
house together here we go hereby order you to serve two life sentences
back-to-back one for each of your victims
well guys here we are at the Ohio State Reformatory this is where they shot most
of the film of Shawshank Redemption and they do self-guided tours so we're gonna
go inside check it out and here is the electric chair that they used kinda
rustic and there's the control station to power the electric chair stairwell
from the movie
and this room in here the warden's office if you see it from this angle
this is where they had to bust out the glass to get in to get it to turn off
the music here at the Andy Dufresne there yeah
you might recognize the fuse at this window when the warden was getting
busted they had all the cops coming down the road here and he went into the
drawer there pulled out a gun and took care of business right there and of
course the iconic safe Andy took the contents out of there and mailed them
it's cool because they have a lot of information about the prison they don't
have a whole lot of information about the movie filming stuff is the only
thing but I recognize a lot of this scene check out this hallway
look at the walls and ceilings peeling
here's the chaplains quarters where a red went in and eventually got rolled
cardboard cutout of red and this is where they make their decisions know
whether or not you're gonna get paroled I will just mention there's no air
conditioning in this building and in the summertime it's warm I got a little fans
throughout but they're not doing much bathroom of sorts must be the wardens
bathroom thank why is it pink I don't know the wardens wife's office you gotta
love the architects you know I can see why they picked this prison for the
movie it's actually really pretty one thing you can't tell about the movie is
it the the staircase they use so many times it goes all the way down to the
bottom bottom floor and just continues to go all the way up to so they could
have used different parts different levels for different scenes to
sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds this is Brooks bench
from the movie no birds though this is the spot can you imagine what it was
like for the old man I mean every year of his life was in prison he was
institutionalized and just the idea of things 50 years later just I mean cars
terrified the heck out of him and he didn't even know how to survive out here
he just loved his birds and stuff but yeah poor Brooks a couple blocks down is
actually where he lived after he got out so we'll go check that out as well
Mansfield is a really old city by the way a lot of their architecture is
clearly over a century sadly the brewer hotel is no more this
is where old Brooks moved in he worked at the market down the street but this
is where he lived upstairs although the interior shots were
actually not filmed inside this building so this is this is the inside of what we
saw earlier at the Brewers tell a cardboard cutout they're gross and what
you'll most notice about this room though you actually have to look up that
you can see Brooks was here and so was red
I don't remember this specific room in the movie but this is the the Chapel of
the prison here
Wow okay now we're gonna go check out the
cellblocks
it's like five floors of sins make that six there are six tiers Wow
no man we go in here
Cosi you look at the ceilings and the walls same downstairs that's one of the
guided tours they're leading the group they got him in line that's funny no
maybe you get a unique experience with the guided tour but let's go downstairs
cozy hmm and remember Andy de France first night he costs read what two packs
of cigarettes yeah he didn't make peep in his cell he did not
don't look down guys just don't look down man
here we have the library they're doing a tour down here but we're in the shower
room here from the movie see all the showerheads I don't think they were very
warm classic shower scene check out this twisting staircase all
the way to the top now here we are on all the first floor of those six tears
man intense check out all those layers of paint okay we got the green the brown
the yellow the black and then just surface rust here in the bullpen they
have the sewer pipe that Andy Dufresne used in the movie this is a Hollywood
problem we can get a look inside here and see how narrow it was when Andy was
rolling through here okay also for Andy's escape be wondering how they did
this scene when they pulled back the poster well here's the tunnel for the
opposite they used so over on this side where the sun's at the cells are a
little different but also you have rooms like this I think this is the whole
solitary I mean what are you gonna do just lay down
that's not motivation to be good I don't know what is not that the alternative is
any better oh here's the actual solitary wing so a
shower at the end of the tear and then big steel doors so no bars
I got a rank that's going right up like movie stuff aside rank it right up there
with Alcatraz Island tour I would it's a lot of fun again here we have some
different cells porcelain toilet sink misty all day alright red says this is
the central guard station of the prison now so they would monitor but actually I
think this was used as the cafeteria in the movie I'm not a hundred percent sure
about that well I'll bet I influenced at least a couple people to watch Shawshank
Redemption after my video there's still more to come though we're gonna leave
here and we're gonna go see what Brooks and red did after they left well here in
Ashland Ohio the Farmers Bank so when Andy Dufresne got out he came to
this location for the exterior I think for the interior as well this is where
he put the documents from the warden safe into an envelope put it in the
outgoing mail well that was at this Bank right here which is no longer a bank
it's now just the crosby advisory group but uh you know the old concrete pillars
still still remind you that it was the bank recognized this road guys yeah old
red after being paroled got a truck ride
coming down this road and truck driver came down to this intersection right
here and red got out the truck continued on down this road and red continued
walking down this road you can kind of recognize part of the road down there
and the structures down there off to find what Andy left for him
the movie also put in a little sign off to the right that said Buxton and here
we have movie site Shawshank trail huh sorry guys but the oaktree is no more
I'm a couple years too late it has actually fallen down but it used to be
out in this field Andy Dufresne and Red's trail has gone cold
darn it I mean there's lots of other baby oak trees around here
what is that
there's like 30 grand here
no red would've wanted it left here
okay
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