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The military presence in the region has led to many film appearances, the earliest being the practice takeoff runs by Doolittle Raiders for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, shot at an auxiliary field at Eglin Field in 1944. Some scenes in the 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High, another film about World War II, were also shot at Eglin.
The 1972 eco-horror film Frogs was filmed in Walton County, Florida, in and around the Wesley House, an old southern mansion located in Eden Gardens State Park in the town of Point Washington, situated on Tucker Bayou off Choctawhatchee Bay.
In addition to The Truman Show mentioned above, filming of scenes for Jaws 2 (1978) took place in the region. Interiors for the youth's pinball hang-out were filmed in Fort Walton Beach at the now-razed original location of Hog's Breath Saloon on Okaloosa Island, and Bruce the Shark's control sled was placed on the bottom of the Gulf off Navarre Beach.
Redneck Riviera is the title of a song by Tom T. Hall about this region (from his 1996 album Songs from Sopchoppy). Lyrics include:
- Gulf Shores up through Apalachicola
- They got beaches of the whitest sand
- Nobody cares if gramma's got a tattoo
- Or Bubba's got a hot wing in his hand
A level in the Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure is named Emerald Coast, based on the coastal area of the same name. It also appears in Sonic Generations on the 3DS version.
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