"Jonathan (George Huckleberry Fox) never met his grandfather, Max Knickerbocker (Peter Coyote), who died in 1927 attempting to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in a biplane. Writer-director Mark Rosman's own grandfather, also named Max, died when the writer was five. What made it more touching for me is I didn't just have a grandfather who I didn't [get to] spend time with, but he was a grandfather who represented somebody who was similar to me when I was not similar to anyone else in my family, he says. He set the story in Virginia but shot the movie in historic Santa Rosa and at a real Sebastopol farmhouse with 1920s furnishings after noticing old cars in driveways as he drove around Sonoma County. People in that area love their history and love to hold on to that, he explains. As Jonathan and Max fly over scenic hills and ocean waves in this Disney Channel film, the boy manages a Back to the Future-esque change of fate for his beloved grandfather. // Available on YouTube"
"Olly Olly Oxen Free, also known as The Great Balloon Adventure, was shot in Calistoga and captures the grandeur of the Bay and Wine Country. Katharine Hepburn plays a junk collector named Miss Pudd, who helps two boys, Chris and Alby, celebrate the birthday of Chris' late grandfather by constructing a hot air balloon in his honor. When the balloon unexpectedly carries Chris and Alby away prematurely, Miss Pudd sets out to rescue them. Katharine Hepburn's wonder is heartwarming. How perfectly mad, how perfectly lovely. I'm in midair. I'm sitting in midair! she says as she sits on an anchor attached to the balloon before they soar over the water and through the fog to"
Numerous films set in Northern California use locations such as San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Calistoga, Sebastopol, and the Bay Area to showcase both urban and verdant landscapes. A Disney Channel film follows Jonathan and his grandfather Max, dramatizing a 1927 transatlantic flight and using historic Santa Rosa and a Sebastopol farmhouse with 1920s furnishings. Mark Rosman drew on personal family history for the story and filmed in Sonoma County because of preserved period details. Olly Olly Oxen Free (The Great Balloon Adventure) was filmed in Calistoga and features Katharine Hepburn as Miss Pudd in a hot-air-balloon rescue over Wine Country.
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