- Filmed
- Summer 1983
- Released
- 1984
- Scene
- The warehouse dance
- Doubles
- Four
In 1983 Hollywood came to Utah County to film Footloose. The high school was Payson High. The church was in American Fork. And when the script needed a place for Kevin Bacon's character to dance out his anger alone, the crew went to the Geneva steel mill in Vineyard.
Filming started in May 1983. The warehouse dance, set to the song "Never," became one of the best known scenes in the film. Bacon later said he had four doubles for it: a stunt double, a dance double and two gymnastics doubles.
Footloose opened in 1984 and was one of the biggest movies of the year. The mill kept running until 2001. Today the buildings are gone, but for one summer, Vineyard's steel mill was a movie set.