- February 2, 2020
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- In Explore Yuma, Filming in Yuma, Imperial Sand Dunes, Production and Film
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Gray’s Well Dune Area is a small section of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area. This particular section is just a part of the of the biggest set of sand dunes located in South Western United States. The Algodones Sand Dune is an area that stretches about 45 miles along the Southern California, and Northern
“Building the set at Yuma was an enormous project… Over Thanksgiving holiday when we first erected the fence around the set, there was a reported crowd of 35,000 dune buggy enthusiasts there. We needed to camouflage ourselves from the public and to schedule our shooting to avoid stray dune buggies creeping into a shot in
The filmmakers decided to stay in sand dunes around Yuma for making Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Buttercup Dunes, California was used as the filming site for the Great Pit of Carkoon sequence on the Dune Sea. Filming took place in April 1982, though construction had taken place over the previous five