Behind the Scenes At the time of the filming and release of Independence Day, the First Interstate Bank was originally called the Library Tower, which was later restored after First Interstate Bancorp merged with Wells Fargo Bank, before it was renamed the U.S. Bank Tower in 2003. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This page lists all known destruction scenes of world landmarks in film. All entries in this list are used in the "All World Landmarks Destruction" video. The said landmark must be the focus of the scene. Only destruction scenes shown on The U.S. Bank Tower formerly known as the First Interstate Bank World Center, was a skyscraper in Los Angeles that was destroyed in the War of 1996. The First Interstate Bank was the primary landmark targeted for destruction by a City Destroyer during the War of 1996. Prior to its destruction Independence Day (1996) - The Library Tower (what is now the U.S. Bank Tower) features the logo of First Interstate Bancorp on it in the film. That company ceased to exist a few months before the film's release. The skyscraper on which the daffy new-agers gather to welcome the aliens, and which is the first target to get zapped, is the roof of the First Interstate World Center, now the US Bank Tower, 633 West 5th Street at Grand Avenue, downtown LA, currently the West Coast’s tallest building. She then went to the very rooftop of the Bank Tower along with the other fanatics to get the aliens' attention from the City Destroyer, but not in the way she expected. Tiffany and the others watched with amazed silence as the ship started opening up. She is last seen screaming just before the City Destroyer obliterates the building, having realized only then that the ship was preparing to fire. Independence Day The White House The Capitol Building The Empire State Building Statue of Liberty The Capitol Records Building U.S. Bank Tower This is where it all began. The Empire State Building in New York City // Imagery and GIF by Leanne Abraham, Planet The U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, CA // Imagery and GIF by Leanne Abraham, Planet U.S. Bank Tower, known locally as the Library Tower and formerly as the First Interstate Bank World Center, is a 1,018-foot (310.3 m) skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, California. Before 2017, U.S. Bank Tower had been the tallest building west of the Mississippi in America, or say, it was the tallest building out of New York City and Chicago in America. Filming locations included Donnelly Memorial Park, Kaiser Steel Mill, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, U.S. Bank Tower, Very Large Array, and Wendover Airport. When the original Independence Day debuted its first commercial during the Super Bowl on January 28, 1996, it was a whole new era of Hollywood carnage. Filming Location: Independence Day, U.S. Bank Tower Los AngelesI do not own the movie or the music, they belong to their rightful owners! The tower has a glass crown that is lit up at night with different colors depending on the date or occasion, changing its appearance to celebrate Christmas, the Chinese New Year, Halloween, Independence Day, Alzheimer's Day, and many other special celebrations. Seen being destroyed in the movie "Independence Day". U.S. Bank Tower (Google Maps). 310.3 m (1,018 ft) By Henry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP AKA Library Tower FKA First Independence Day was filmed primarily in New York, NY, Weekawken and West New York, NJ and Los Angeles, CA. The financial folks panic on Wall Street & William Street, New York, NY. The cop car stops short and causes a pile up at the intersection of Church Street & Leonard Street, New York, NY. Independence Day ''Time's Up'' scene On July 2, 1996, an enormous alien mothership arrives in the orbit of the Earth and deploys multiple saucers, each fifteen miles wide, that take positions over Jasmine and her son escape a fiery blast in downtown’s 2nd Street Tunnel, in between Hill and Figueroa Street. The Los Angeles location most commonly associated with Independence Day, though, Scene from Independance Day (1996) filmed at US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, CA www.hollywoodlocations.commore. The 1996 sci-fi action film "Independence Day" was a large scale production, filming in California, New York, Utah, Washington D.C., New Mexico and more. Capt. Steven Hiller, played by Will Smith, lives at this Los Angeles home, where he first spots the giant spaceship in the sky.
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