In the late 1970s the movie Nunzio started filming in Brooklyn, and the experience was overwhelmingly embraced by the locals, which you can see in this eight minute video that was just uploaded to YouTube. In it, the narrator explains that "seldom has a neighborhood been more integrated with a production than Borough Park for the new motion picture Nunzio." Neighborhood people were cast in and involved with the production for the movie, which was written by James Andronica.
Andronica's friend explains that "he left for Hollywood eight years ago and he came back and he wrote a story called Nunzio and Universal Studios picked it up. I'm in the picture, my son's in the picture... the whole neighborhood is excited. It's like a dream come true. Warmed the hearts of the whole neighborhood." (These days, Brooklyn doesn't always embrace Hollywood with open arms.)
Watch as locals and crew members discuss the movie, filming around the neighborhood... and the problems with setting up shots underneath the elevated subway's "unbearable... rumble."
