Route 66 fan Denny Gibson saw the Cameron Crowe movie, “Elizabethtown,” which apparently has some scenes from Route 66 in it. Here’s what Denny reported:
There is a road trip in it but it is only the last 15-20 minutes of the movie. Once it starts, it gets to some good roadside attractions, including the round barn on 66 in Arcadia. The trip begins when Orlando Bloom opens the book of maps and music CDs that Kirsten Dunst has prepared for him, and folks who watch closely will get a glimpse of Route 66 on the book’s cover. The photo used on the cover is the one of the “sidewalk” section near Miami, OK, that appears on the home page of my website and it appears for a good portion of one second. Woohoo!!
I was trying to discreetly brag about the fact that I have a photograph currently being shown in theaters a half second at a time. Guess I was too discreet.
Denny, did you get any acknowledgement in the film’s credits or anything?
Nope. I don’t think that was ever a possibility. I did have the option of requesting payment but that would probably have just got them to use another picture. It’s obviously not very important to the movie. I figured it was better to get the picture in than to attempt to get a hundred bucks or so. I had hoped it would be a little more noticeable but I’m just glad it’s there at all.
Good call, Denny. Free publicity for the road — be it ever so brief — is its own reward, I think.