Let’s say a movie about London in the 30′ wants to have a scene about driving car, how they make it? It’s all CGI? Or they have some tricks? How they use historic artificats?
In addition how they make complex places like a scene inside a nuclear reactor is it all CGI? Or they build a fake place?
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For outdoor scenes, several big studios have large backlots with the outdoor sets already set up. Universal Studios in California, for example, is used by a lot of Hollywood productions, because they have fake streets and city squares that are built to look like different cities and time periods – New York Street, Colonial Street, Little Europe, London Square, etc. With just a little bit of set dressing, they can pretty easily turn those streets into nearly any city or time period.
So if you’re shooting “London, 1930’s” you could just stock one of those streets with period-appropriate cars, create a few fake shopfronts, throw in some extras wearing 1930’s clothes, and you’re golden. For more specific sets or for interior sets, they’d just build them somewhere else, basically from scratch. Many movies these days will use CGI in place of more complex sets, but it’s generally cheaper and easier for many shots to still use practical sets, where possible.
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