Newport film sets explored

FRESH PERSPECTIVE: Newport Film Tour owner Tammy Fasano, front seat, shows movie scenes to customers before taking them to the actual locations where the scenes were filmed in Newport. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY
FRESH PERSPECTIVE: Newport Film Tour owner Tammy Fasano, front seat, shows movie scenes to customers before taking them to the actual locations where the scenes were filmed in Newport. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

The natural beauty of Newport and its historical structures have reappeared many times as movie settings, becoming the Jay Gatsby mansion of “The Great Gatsby” and the quirky mid-’60s small town New Penzance, of “Moonrise Kingdom.” A new business, Newport Film Tour, is capitalizing on visitors’ curiosity of what was used where, and why. Launched

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