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Santa Clarita now famous as home for special effects.

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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Byline: Eugene Tong

Aug. 6--CANYON COUNTRY -- Mark Byers makes a living planting explosions big and small all around town.

"We've blown up houses and cars all over Santa Clarita over the last five years," said Byers, 40, owner of Mark Byers Special Effects in Castaic. He is part of a cadre of local special-effects houses responsible for much of Hollywood's on-screen mayhem.

The expansive canyons and movie ranches on the outskirts of the Santa Clarita Valley have provided exteriors for action movies since the late 1910s only the props have changed. As most things in Hollywood, it's all about size.

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