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To find a college that would let them shoot the film on their campus.
Animal House
The filmmakers' next problem was finding a college that would let them shoot the film on their campus. 
where was animal house supposed to take place University of California in Berkeley
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Animal House [SEP] Locations
The filmmakers' next problem was finding a college that would let them shoot the film on their campus. They submitted the script to a number of colleges and universities but "nobody wanted this movie" due to the script; according to Landis, "I couldn't find 'the look'. Every place that had 'the look' said, 'no thank you.'" The University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) initially gave their consent to shoot the movie at the college, but the president (Herbert W. Schooling) withdrew permission to film there after reading the script. The president of the University of Oregon in Eugene, William Beaty Boyd, had been a senior administrator at the University of California in Berkeley in 1966 when his campus was considered for a location of the film "The Graduate".