Where was The Sheik filmed?

1921 film by George Melford

The Sheik (1921) was filmed in Palm Springs, Santa Barbara County, Oxnard, Montauk, Kaufman Astoria Studios and Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, 6 places named in its Wikipedia article's Production section, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Arizona, California. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's Production section

Wikipedia’s Production section names 6 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Ambassador Hotel United States

  “Overhead, soaring about the room were cocoanut trees of papier mache, cocoanuts and palm fronds which had been rescued from the sandy beaches of Oxnard where they had served as atmosphere of the 1921 classic, The Sheik.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Arizona, California, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

Also shot in these places

• The Bourne Ultimatum 2007
• The Bourne Legacy 2012
• Shadows and Fog 1991
• The Affair 2014–2019

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