Pietari Kääpä, The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki: Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities (Bristol: Intellect, 2011), p.80. Mika Kaurismaki's film does indeed visit Los Angeles without a map, nor indeed does the film deploy maps of its other locations (Las Vegas and Bradford). All we have is a globe in the protagonist's room in Bradford, on which he looks at Los Angeles just before taking a flight there: One further sequence shows the same room and globe, as he calls home from Los Angeles: The sights of Los Angeles shown in the film are obvious ones, and can be visited by any cine-tourist with a good map. To visit the film's Bradford locations, follow a 'Movie Trail' on the 'Bradford City of Film' site: See here for images of two of the film's Bradford locations, Undercliffe Cemetery and Little Germany.
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The only maps in The Birds are those you would expect to find in a schoolroom, alongside all the other usual accoutrements: For a map of the locations, go to cine-touristic websites such as this: Or see those provided by the 'Making of...' documentaries in dvd editions: The film itself provides no map of the area, but does enjoy a map-like birds' eye view of Bodega Bay: The change in the aspect of the logo from beginning to end may occur with every Universal film at the time, but it seems to correspond to the dark mood at the end of The Birds:
The map above, from the credits of a contemporary newsreel about the making of the film, allows for several possibilities as to the film's specific Pacific location. The Hawaiian island Kaua'i (hidden by the letter 'P') provided most of the exteriors for South Pacific, and is now a prime site of cine-tourism, with guided visits available to the shoot's locations. The narrative is set further West and South, with the maps in the film's principal map room pointing us to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (just below the letter 'T' in 'South'): When the action builds towards a climax involving one specific island, a map of it is scrutinised: A later scene shows the same map being looked at even more closely. Looking at it closely myself, I'd say this is the island called Pulau Siberut, off the west coast of Sumatra, opposite Padang. That would make no sense topographically, but at this point in the film the relevant detail is that it is an island, simply: The action of various parties is shown as coordinated through their reference to related maps: There is one more map in the film, an element in the décor of the Thanksgiving Show put on for the entertainment of servicemen:
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