Lights, camera, location: a GuardianWitness assignment - gallery

Wandsworth Roundabout by harrykauf: "Droogs beating up a homeless guy in the tunnel in A Clockwork Orange"... Photograph: harrykauf/GuardianWitness

... and here's how it happened in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 masterwork Photograph: PA

Quick Stop Shop by UntitledFruitCo: "The Quick Stop Shop and the video store where Dante and Randal worked in the Kevin Smith film Clerks"... Photograph: UntitledFruitCo/GuardianWitness

... and actors Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson in the 1994 low-budget indie that launched Kevin Smith's career Photograph: PR

St Andrews West Sands beach by sallyeg: "Where they shot the famous beach scene from Chariots of Fire (accompanied by Vangelis soundtrack)" ... Photograph: sallyeg/GuardianWitness

.. Ian Charleson (as Eric Liddell), centre, with Ben Cross (as Harold Abrahams) on the left in Chariots' opening scene – which was supposedly taking place in Broadstairs, Kent
Photograph: c.20thC.Fox/Everett / Rex Featur/c.20thC.Fox/Everett / Rex Featur

Woodland Pond near Dorking, Surrey by Boudicca23: "Location used in the Merchant Ivory film A Room With a View as the site for the nude bathing pond scene, featuring the manly parts of Simon Callow, Julian Sands and Rupert Graves"... Photograph: Kaz Jones/GuardianWitness

... Simon Callow and Rupert Graves' manly parts are pretty much obscured in this shot from the film. Oh well Photograph: PR

Ko Phi Phi Lee by lankeymarlon: "Location of Danny Boyle's The Beach"...
Photograph: Jonathan Mann/GuardianWitness

... and here's Leonardo DiCaprioin the film, furrowing his brow like mad Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Cafe des 2 Moulins by NathanStaz: "I chanced upon one of the main settings for Amelie in Montmartre, Paris - it was filled with Amelie memorabilia!"... Photograph: Nathan Stazicker/GuardianWitness

... and here's Audrey Tautou slinging hash inside the cafe in question. Photograph: PR

Hook and Ladder 8 by talksr: "Most of the Guardian's 20-30-year-old readers should be familiar with Ghostbusters and the iconic headquarters the Ghostbusters purchased by remortgaging Dr. Raymond Stantz's (Dan Aykroyd) home. I took my image on my first holiday out of the UK in 2011' ... Photograph: Robert Talks/GuardianWitness

.. and here's the gruesome threesome – Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis – outside Hook and Ladder 8 in the first Ghostbuster film Photograph: Alamy