Mansfield Ohio area we are going to retrace some of the filming locations

from the iconic movie Shawshank Redemption and so to start the day

here's where the film actually started at this cabin here actually Andy

Dufresne parked his vehicle here had a few drinks thought about doing some bad

stuff when he found out what was going on over here in this cabin which they're

actually doing a bridal shower here today but this is where it all started

whether or not he committed the crime or not it's still up in the air right but

yeah this is where potentially he made some bad choices and this is where the

film kicks off from here well we got to go to the big house huh going to the big

house together here we go hereby order you to serve two life sentences

back-to-back one for each of your victims

well guys here we are at the Ohio State Reformatory this is where they shot most

of the film of Shawshank Redemption and they do self-guided tours so we're gonna

go inside check it out and here is the electric chair that they used kinda

rustic and there's the control station to power the electric chair stairwell

from the movie

and this room in here the warden's office if you see it from this angle

this is where they had to bust out the glass to get in to get it to turn off

the music here at the Andy Dufresne there yeah

you might recognize the fuse at this window when the warden was getting

busted they had all the cops coming down the road here and he went into the

drawer there pulled out a gun and took care of business right there and of

course the iconic safe Andy took the contents out of there and mailed them

it's cool because they have a lot of information about the prison they don't

have a whole lot of information about the movie filming stuff is the only

thing but I recognize a lot of this scene check out this hallway

look at the walls and ceilings peeling

here's the chaplains quarters where a red went in and eventually got rolled

cardboard cutout of red and this is where they make their decisions know

whether or not you're gonna get paroled I will just mention there's no air

conditioning in this building and in the summertime it's warm I got a little fans

throughout but they're not doing much bathroom of sorts must be the wardens

bathroom thank why is it pink I don't know the wardens wife's office you gotta

love the architects you know I can see why they picked this prison for the

movie it's actually really pretty one thing you can't tell about the movie is

it the the staircase they use so many times it goes all the way down to the

bottom bottom floor and just continues to go all the way up to so they could

have used different parts different levels for different scenes to

sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds this is Brooks bench

from the movie no birds though this is the spot can you imagine what it was

like for the old man I mean every year of his life was in prison he was

institutionalized and just the idea of things 50 years later just I mean cars

terrified the heck out of him and he didn't even know how to survive out here

he just loved his birds and stuff but yeah poor Brooks a couple blocks down is

actually where he lived after he got out so we'll go check that out as well

Mansfield is a really old city by the way a lot of their architecture is

clearly over a century sadly the brewer hotel is no more this

is where old Brooks moved in he worked at the market down the street but this

is where he lived upstairs although the interior shots were

actually not filmed inside this building so this is this is the inside of what we

saw earlier at the Brewers tell a cardboard cutout they're gross and what

you'll most notice about this room though you actually have to look up that

you can see Brooks was here and so was red

I don't remember this specific room in the movie but this is the the Chapel of

the prison here

Wow okay now we're gonna go check out the

cellblocks

it's like five floors of sins make that six there are six tiers Wow

no man we go in here

Cosi you look at the ceilings and the walls same downstairs that's one of the

guided tours they're leading the group they got him in line that's funny no

maybe you get a unique experience with the guided tour but let's go downstairs

cozy hmm and remember Andy de France first night he costs read what two packs

of cigarettes yeah he didn't make peep in his cell he did not

don't look down guys just don't look down man

here we have the library they're doing a tour down here but we're in the shower

room here from the movie see all the showerheads I don't think they were very

warm classic shower scene check out this twisting staircase all

the way to the top now here we are on all the first floor of those six tears

man intense check out all those layers of paint okay we got the green the brown

the yellow the black and then just surface rust here in the bullpen they

have the sewer pipe that Andy Dufresne used in the movie this is a Hollywood

problem we can get a look inside here and see how narrow it was when Andy was

rolling through here okay also for Andy's escape be wondering how they did

this scene when they pulled back the poster well here's the tunnel for the

opposite they used so over on this side where the sun's at the cells are a

little different but also you have rooms like this I think this is the whole

solitary I mean what are you gonna do just lay down

that's not motivation to be good I don't know what is not that the alternative is

any better oh here's the actual solitary wing so a

shower at the end of the tear and then big steel doors so no bars

I got a rank that's going right up like movie stuff aside rank it right up there

with Alcatraz Island tour I would it's a lot of fun again here we have some

different cells porcelain toilet sink misty all day alright red says this is

the central guard station of the prison now so they would monitor but actually I

think this was used as the cafeteria in the movie I'm not a hundred percent sure

about that well I'll bet I influenced at least a couple people to watch Shawshank

Redemption after my video there's still more to come though we're gonna leave

here and we're gonna go see what Brooks and red did after they left well here in

Ashland Ohio the Farmers Bank so when Andy Dufresne got out he came to

this location for the exterior I think for the interior as well this is where

he put the documents from the warden safe into an envelope put it in the

outgoing mail well that was at this Bank right here which is no longer a bank

it's now just the crosby advisory group but uh you know the old concrete pillars

still still remind you that it was the bank recognized this road guys yeah old

red after being paroled got a truck ride

coming down this road and truck driver came down to this intersection right

here and red got out the truck continued on down this road and red continued

walking down this road you can kind of recognize part of the road down there

and the structures down there off to find what Andy left for him

the movie also put in a little sign off to the right that said Buxton and here

we have movie site Shawshank trail huh sorry guys but the oaktree is no more

I'm a couple years too late it has actually fallen down but it used to be

out in this field Andy Dufresne and Red's trail has gone cold

darn it I mean there's lots of other baby oak trees around here

what is that

there's like 30 grand here

no red would've wanted it left here

okay

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