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"Hunger Games "(The Movie) was filmed in Dead Milltown and Dupont National Forest of North Carolina!
"Hunger Games "
The Movie) was filmed in Dead Milltown and Dupont National Forest of North Carolina!"Hunger Games " The Movie) was filmed in Dead Milltown and Dupont National Forest of North Carolina!
(North Carolina provided a good setting because it had the contrast of the dead Mill Town vs. Charlotte Banking Center to show the Future between Off-Shored Mill Industry jobs contrasted with what became the new Banking Center of NC and the Southeast in Charlotte which is struggling as Bank of America faces civil lawsuits and more scrutiny for it's predatory practices and squandering of it's capitol, which needed a Bail Out from US Taxpayers to survive. Yet, there was NO Bailout for the Mill Towns of NC and their workers...(Tough Luck!) they were asked to "re-train for the future." when no future has come that will employ them.)
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'Hunger Games' film's impact immediate across NC
By Josh Shaffer - jshaffer@newsobserver.com
HILDEBRAN, NC With their rusty tin roofs and boarded-up windows, the rickety mill houses of Hildebran look like they might fall over in a stiff wind.
They sat empty for decades, relics from a village that turned cotton into yarn, where workers who toiled 16-hour shifts for dimes a day and families that survived on goods from the company store – purchased with company-minted money.
Few would imagine this Burke County outpost, just west of Hickory, as the setting for a movie – let alone the biggest movie of the year. But starting Friday, millions of eyes will see this corner of Hildebran transformed into District 12, the hardscrabble, coal-mining home to Katniss Everdeen, heroine of “The Hunger Games.”
North Carolina hosts many movies: “Blue Velvet” in Wilmington, “Dirty Dancing” at Luke Lure, “Bull Durham” all over. But this film’s impact is already being compared to “Harry Potter,” playing on the cover of national magazines weeks before the first showing. And more than the others, “The Hunger Games” builds its scenery out of North Carolina’s past – telling its story through the skeletons of its forgotten places. A mill in nearby Rhodhiss, after all, made fabric for the American flag Neil Armstrong planted on the moon.
But the greater good can be seen through the cameo appearance of long-dead trades and long-abandoned mills – glimpsed again through the camera’s lens. In a state reinventing itself after the decline of textiles and tobacco, “The Hunger Games” set provides a look back.
Weeks before the movie opened, curious travelers were stopping in Hildebran to see the ramshackle outhouses and the huge brick company store that serves as Peeta Mellark’s bakery in District 12 – even though the land is privately owned and marked with “No Trespassing” signs.
“My little niece was up here and her Daddy told her they filmed a movie,” said Hildebran Mayor Karen Robinson. “So I took her out there, and her Daddy mentions it was The Hunger Games. She got that camera phone out and she went crazy. It’s going to be big, judging by her reaction. All the kids. It’s going to be big.”
Nothing big has happened here in a long time.
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More of a Very Good Read re history of the towns and different locates in NC where the filming took place. (which brings back memories of John Edwards "TWO AMERICAS" Campaign)...at:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/03/18/1936882/hunger-games-films-impact-immediate.html
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Sorry about that. I do indeed know that Raleigh is the Capitol. 
That was mentioned specifically, and it gives us a reason to see the main character shoot down combat aircraft with a bow and arrow. 
As for satellites, it was also mentioned specifically that they no longer had them. Live transcontinental broadcasts were routine in the 1950s, long before communications satellites.
