Leo McGarry's Visual Guide to The West Wing offices

Someone actually mapped out the west wing set?

WHAT.
A.
TREAT!

I love West Wing but all they did was walk in circles

this is an example of why Leo is a bit of an a-hole. He's standing right next to Josh's office and could easily walk there himself but instead tells Donna to go get him.

always loved the walk and talks.............like a ballet we're now in 2024.💙🌊

I know that Sorkin has always been known for his talk-and-walks, but that's a pretty impressive example TO START THE SERIES WITH. It isn't segmented in that many places, which means a bucket full of rehearsal prior to shooting.

The master.

Excellent map and sync as well. Thanks for posting.

My mind. 😵‍💫

Well that was fabulous.

Does anyone have the link to the similar video where the overhead includes the camera position?

Great video never seen someone do this so really awesome particularly the map

Bro had to make sure the Roosevelt Room was still there

I wonder, had the writers decided this early on that the president had MS?

I'm not going to read every single comment here to see if someone already thought of this, so I'm just going to say it: This reminds me of the Marauder's Map! 🪄🧙‍♂️

This is the most convoluted Walk and Talk I think I've ever seen. Wow...

lol Donna and John just yell when they need each other. It’s hilarious

This video uses the ground plan for the season 2+ set that was on one soundstage, although the first season set was spread across two stages.

One, this is fantastic. Very well done.

Second, I love the interaction between Leo and Donna.

"He was swerving to avoid a tree."
"And what happened?"
"He was unsuccessful!"

lol

"sudden arboreal stop" is a fantastic euphemism for slamming into a tree.

Its amazing how much cris crossing had to be done in order to get the entire dialog in for some of these scenes and oners

Can you do this for every walk and talk please? 😃

I’ll go ahead and charitably assume that Leo’s just trying to get his steps in, walking around in circles.

Yeah, that's what happened to Sonny Bono, he came to a sudden arboreal stop while skiing.

DO YOU KNOW WHERE CAN I DOWNLEOAD THE PLAN PLS??

It seriously bugs me that they did this but in reality there is no second secretary or sitting room. Outside the oval office is a small secretary cubby then the cabinet room and around the Corner is the press room. I guess they changed it for creative reasons but it will NEVER not annoy me

Lord! Lord! I wish I had had this when I was watching the program.

Huge thank you for doing this. I recently finished my 4th time through the series and it's as affecting and uplifting today as it was when it aired.

Sudden arboreal stop

Where's the block of cheese?

Why do I suspect that someone printed this and tried to use it on January 6?

This us awesome 👌

This is enlightening, I would watch the West Wing and be convinced that they were just walking around in circles!

Really well done.

Not accurate as in the first season CJs office was right next to Josh's

great video. Oh how I miss The West Wing - brilliant writing, direction, acting, etc etc etc. Shame that Aaron decided enough was enough.

I miss John Spencer so much. I saw Sterling K. Brown as Leo in the play of Hartsfield's Landing that they just did. No offence to Brown but I couldn't help but mentally wince and feel sad every time I remembered how different the impact of every line spoken by John Spencer was. I think the significance of his craft shone through even more given a contrasting performance to compare it with (though not even wildly in the same circumstances). Again, don't get me wrong, the guy's a force of nature on his own. He's done some very good work and blew my mind so completely in American Crime Story.

This is so cool!!

THIS. IS. BRILLIANT!!

Where has this been all my life?!?

Did they build an entire west wing to film in?

One of my favorite lines of the whole series: "The President, while riding his bicycle on vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop."

Loved it.

It was nice of the White House let them film all this in there while Bush was out on business.

That's brilliant :)

Pacman should be trying to chase them Lol

Nothing has ever been more up my alley than this video! Thank you for taking the time!!

I’d like to see a season 2 walk and talk map. In season 1, CJ’s office is through a door next to Josh’s but from season 2 onward it is opposite the bullpen

Love it. Thanks.
Best show ever made, and I'm a Brit and were snobbish about these things.

With all the reboots - can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reboot TWW.

#867 Huzzah