Lone Pine Film Festival 2014 Silver Anniversary Collectors Program

Welcome to our Silver Anniversary Celebration

WOW. It might seem like yesterday, but it was 25 years ago that Kerry and Ray Powell and author/historian Dave Holland gathered a group of Lone Pine business and community leaders to pay tribute to the cinematic heritage of the Alabama Hills and to the actors, directors and producers that been coming for years to make films in and around Lone Pine.

The first Sierra Film Festival took place Oct. 6-7, 1990 and was a breath of fresh air for those familiar with the film festival circuit: organizers had put together a winning combination of screenings of films, panel discussions and autograph opportunities with stars of the silver screen and – the key ingredient – tours to locations around Lone Pine where popular Westerns and serials were actually filmed.

So successful was that event in 1990 that the community of Lone Pine had little choice but to make it an annual celebration and it proved to be the right choice, attracting and entertaining thousands of film buffs and curious onlookers each October since.

And here we are 25 years later!

Thursday evening’s Lone Pine Film History Museum reception will bring old friends together to “toast” our anniversary and to introduce our guests to the exciting changes in the museum. After the reception we will cross the street for a concert with Bruce Forman and Cow Bop. Our Silver Anniversary brings many regulars back to Lone Pine, along with a very special group of actors. The list includes one of Hollywood’s favorite leading men, Bruce Boxleitner, along with fellow actors Johnny Crawford, Ed Faulkner, Donna Martell and Peggy Stewart. Also attending will be Academy Award winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron, who will be presenting a program on sound and special effects. Stuntmen Diamond Farnsworth, Dean Smith, Loren Janes and

stuntwoman Sylvia Durando; authors David Rothel and Miles Swarthout; and film restorer Steve Wystrach will all be presenting programs of interest. Special guests William Wellman, Jr., Jay Dee Witney, Dawn Moore, Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Wyatt McCrea and Sandra Tyler, Randolph Scott’s daughter, round out the guest list to date.

And true to our heritage of being “Where the Real West Becomes the Reel West,” there will be 13 exciting location tours, including Ansel Adams – In the Footsteps of the Master; Audie Murphy – A Real Reel Hero; Dynamite Pass – Tim Holt Rides The Alabamas; Gunga Din; and the very popular Lone Pine’s Backlot Tour.

Add to all of this some rodeo action on Saturday, memorabilia vendors, book signings, Wild West entertainment and a Lone Pine Film Festival tradition, the Sunday “Parade of Stars,” affectionately known as “the best small town parade in America.”

Thank you for 25 years of support, and we look forward to seeing you in 2015 as we celebrate the Early Years and those early heroes of the silent screen, Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson and many more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CREDITS

About Town

In-Depth

Collect Autographs and More at ‘The Building’ Cowboy Up at Festival Rodeo Map of Lone Pine New Exhibits at Film History Museum

34 25 Years of the Lone Pine Film Festival In Memorium: Jim Rogers 9 Protecting and Preserving the Alabama Hills 8 Meet Your 2014 Tour Guide 13-15 Tribute: Dave Holland and Ray Powell

Festival Favorites Cowboy Church 33 Discussion: Death Valley Days 14 Discussion: Special Effects of ‘Gunga Din’ 7 Discussion: Writing ‘The Shootist’ 7 Panel: Clayton Moore’s Centennial 8 Panel: The Art of Stunt Acting 11 Movie Site Tours 16-17& 20-21 Schedule of Events 4-6 Special Screenings 6

Live Entertainment

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Retrospective 25 Years of Star Sightings Movie Mania The Covers: Film Festival Programs Themes of the Lone Pine Film Festival

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Pieces Of Lone Pine Hot off the Press Memorabilia at the Museum

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Stars Shine In Lone Pine

Autograph Pages 18-19 Six Degrees of the Lone Pine Film Festival 28 Cow Bop Kicks off Silver Anniversary 10 18-19 Wild West Comes to Life with the Groat Family 8 Who’s Here in 2014

SPECIAL THANKS To the community of Lone Pine and greater Eastern Sierra for keeping the Lone Pine Film Festival alive these past 25 years through volunteer, monetary and moral support. It was community spirit, ingenuity and drive that birthed the first festival in 1990, and it’s been the same passion, dedication and hard work that has made the Lone Pine Film Festival such a lasting success. We truly could not do this without you.

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Save the Dates

Concert in the Rocks June 13, 2015

26th Annual Lone Pine Film Festival Oct. 9-11, 2015

The 2014 Lone Pine Film Festival Executive Committee:

Advisor Kerry Powell Budget Judy Fowler Festival Director Bob Sigman Sponsorships Jaque Hickman & Bev Vander Wall Star Wrangler Ivonne Bunne Membership Nan Gering Ticket Sales Office Barbara Bahl Contributors of the 2014 Lone Pine Film Festival program publication:

Publisher Rena Mlodecki Editor Darcy Ellis Design Olivia Nguyen Writers Darcy Ellis Bob Sigman Packy Smith Press Community Printing (Bishop, Calif.)

Advertising Jaque Hickman Beverly Vander Wall The 2014 Lone Pine Film Festival Souvenir Program is a collaborative effort between The Inyo Register (Horizon California Publications, 1180 N. Main St., Suite 108. Bishop, CA 93514) and Lone Pine Film History Museum (701 S. Main St., Lone Pine, CA 93545). All contents of this October 2014 publication are the property of the Film Museum and may not be reproduced in any manner without the expressed written consent of the collaborators.

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Celebrating a Silver Anniversary

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Lone Pine Film Festival celebrates Eastern Sierra’s cinematic legacy for 25th Year

n 1989, Lone Pine business owners Kerry and Ray Powell teamed with author/film historian Dave Holland and a group of fellow business and community leaders in a plan to pay tribute to the extensive Hollywood heritage of the Alabama Hills.

At that time, the area had been seen in hundreds of feature films, TV programs and cliffhanger serials, most of them Westerns. Hollywood’s longstanding love affair with the unique landscape of the Eastern Sierras had cooled somewhat, and film historians had largely overlooked the tradition of moviemaking in Inyo County.

But Lone Pine’s rich cinematic history could not be denied. The Alabama Hills and surrounding Eastern Sierra terrain had been used in movies made by such prominent directors as John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, William Wellman, William Wyler, Budd Boetticher, Henry King and William Witney. The stars who worked here were legendary, the standouts being John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Randolph Scott, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd.

As part of the Lone Pine community’s planned tribute, they would recognize these myriad actors, directors and producers who had been coming to make films in Lone Pine since the 1920s.

The result of Holland, the Powells and the other Lone Pine residents’ efforts, in 1990, was the first cinemacentric festival held in Lone Pine called the Sierra Film Festival, Oct. 6-7. The festival was co-sponsored by Kerry and Ray Powell, who owned the Best Western Frontier Motel, along with the Inyo Council for the Arts, California Arts Council and the Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce. It was a unique event. For two days, attendees were treated to screenings of films – big-budget movies and lowly B Westerns alike, some of them quite rare – largely shot in the Alabama Hills.

The first page in the first-ever Film Festival Program Guide featured a proclamation acknowledging a debt of gratitude to Roy Rogers, whose first starring role was filmed here in 1938 and who visited Lone Pine in 1990 to

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Twenty-five years ago during the first Film Festival, Roy Rogers dedicated the plaque at Movie Flats recognizing the area’s illustrious film history. Rogers’ first starring role was filmed here in 1938.

dedicate a historical marker that was placed at Whitney Portal and Movie Road. The bronze plaque reads: Movie Flats – Lone Pine Since 1920, hundreds of films and TV episodes including “Gunga Din,” “How the West Was Won,” “King of the Khyber Rifles,” “High Sierra,” along with the “Lone Ranger” and “Bonanza,” with such stars as Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Glenn Ford, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne have filmed in these rugged Alabama Hills with the majestic Sierra Nevada background. Plaque dedicated by Roy Rogers, whose first starring role was filmed here in 1938.

Plaque placed by E Clampus Vitus, Chap. 395 Date: October 7, 1990 Celebrity guests the first year included not just Roy Rogers, but also Terry Moore, Michael Gross, Richard Farnsworth, Rand Brooks, Eddie Dean, Linda Hayes, Pierce Lyden, Loren Janes, Jack Williams, William Witney, Irene Cuffe and Joe Yrigoyen – a mix of actors, directors and stuntmen who had worked on those films and others made at Lone Pine.

The Sierra Film Festival trumped similar events with an innovation that left indelible impressions on those fortunate

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enough to take advantage of it Holland, who moderated panel discussions with the guests, mapped out a tour of locations in the Hills where specific scenes of the famous movies being shown had been shot. He tape-recorded a narration to be played on buses that drove attendees directly from the film screenings to the Alabamas. In other words, attendees could watch a movie in the morning and then in the afternoon visit the spots where its memorable scenes had been staged and photographed.

An unqualified success, the Sierra Film Festival – originally intended as a one-off tribute – became a yearly event that was soon drawing more than a thousand people from all across the country and around the world.. In 1993 it was renamed the Lone Pine Film Festival and year after year the Festival showcased movies, both obscure and well known, that had been produced in the area.

The guest lists have included major stars and B-Western stalwarts alike.

Folks like “Gunga Din’s” Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and “Yellow Sky’s” Gregory Peck rubbed shoulders with former Republic Pictures cowboy icon Roy Rogers and ingénue Peggy Stewart as well as veteran stuntmen like Loren

Janes, Richard Farnsworth and his son, Diamond. Lone Pine’s singular history was enriched with the anecdotes they shared with attendees about working in the Alabama Hills.

Here we are 25 years later with the Lone Pine Film Festival continuing to simultaneous highlight and preserve the area’s rich movie-making legacy – a task undertaken year round at the Lone Pine Film History Museum.

This year’s Silver Anniversary is not only a testament to the dreams of a community, but to the love, admiration and appreciation movie fans the world over have for the Western film genre and the landscape of the Eastern Sierra.

Festival events in 2014 pay tribute to both – and toast to a successful quartercentury of celebrating movie magic.

Even as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the festival, we are already making plans for the future. During the 2015 festival, we will honor the memory of Tom Mix on the 75th anniversary of his death with the theme, “Silents Please!” The festival will highlight a number of silent films, with a live accompanist, filmed in the Lone Pine area. Among the films will be an encore presentation of “The Roundup” as well as films featuring stars Mix, Buck Jones and Hoot Gibson.

Guests of the first Film Festival included: (top row, l-r): Eddie Dean, Terry Moore and Richard Farnsworth; (bottom row, l-r): Rand Brooks, Loren Janes, William Witney and Michael Gross.

Star Sightings

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Roy Rogers Terry Moore Michael Gross Richard Farnsworth Rand Brooks Eddie Dean Linda Hayes Pierce Lyden Loren Janes Jack Williams William Witney Irene Cuffe Joe Yrigoyen

1991

Mrs. Wm Boyd Rand Brooks Iron Eyes Cody John Hart Loren Janes Pierce Lyden Virginia Mayo Montie Montana George Montgomery Peggy Stewart Wm. Witney Grace Boyd

1992

John Agar Rex Allan Billy Benedict Rand Brooks Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Richard Famsworth Jennifer Holt Loren Janes Pierce Lyden

Richard Martin Clayton Moore Ann Rutherford Henry Wills William Whitney

1993

John Agar Harry Carey Jr. Ben Johnson Pat Buttrum Dick Jones Pierce Lyden Loren James Jan Merlin Montie Montana Peggy Stewart

1994

Ruth Terry Barbra Hale Kay Aldridge John Ericson Pierce Lyden Anne Michum Loren Janes William Witney Charles Champlin John Michum

1995

Ernest Borgnine John Hart Will Hutchins Frank Coughlin Robert Horton Karl Malden Loren Janes Denny Miller John Michum Peggy Stewart

Don Murray

1996

Hugn O’Brian Rob Ward Robert Horton Terry Moore Burt Kennedy Pierce Lyden John Michum Peggy Stewart Loren Janes Dick Jones

1997

Vera Ralston Rand Brooks Peggy Stewart Robert W. Sigman John Michum Ann Rutherford Penny Edwards Ruth Terry Pierce Lyden Loren Janes Kay Aldridge Allan Lane

1998

Adrian Booth Brian Ben Burtt Dale Evens Loren Janes Burt Kennedy John Michum Peggy Stewart Ruth Terry Claire Trevor William Wellman Jr.

1999

Robert Blake

Budd Boetticher Ernest Borgnine Ben Burtt Angie Dickinson Dale Evans Kathryn Grayson Barbra Hale Burt Kennedy Celeste Holm Joan Leslie A.C. Lyles John Michum Jack Palance Peggy Stewart Ruth Terry

2000

Budd Boettcher Adrian Booth Brian Ben Burtt Ben Cooper Fred Dryer Loren Janes Burt Kennedy John Michum Terry Moore Jack Palance Dale Robertson Ann Rutherford Peggy Stewart Ruth Terry

2001

A.C. Lyles John Michum Peggy Stewart Ruth Terry William Wellman Jr. Roydon Clark Diamond Farnsworth

Loren Janes Neil Summers Jack Williams

2002

Dean Stockwell Neil Summers Ruth Terry William Wellman Jr. Michel Gross Ron Underwood Marsha Hunt Brent Mattock Nancy Roberts Craig Barron S.S. Wilson

2003

Peter Brown Ben Cooper Michael Dante Anne Francis Ty Hardin Robert Horton Anne Jeffreys Steve Mitchell Loren Janes Howard Keel Terry Moore Margaret O’Brian Ann Rutherford Peggy Stewart William Smith Ruth Terry Clint Walker Sue Ane Langdon John Saxton Kelo Henderson Rex Allen Jr. Cheryl Rodgers

Barnett Terrie Davis Diamond Farnsworth Chris Mitchum Cindy Mitchum

2004

Cheryl Rogers Barnett Peter Brown Roydon Clark Ben Cooper Kim Darby Michael Emerson Diamond Farnsworth Edward Faulkner Loren Janes Anne Francis Robert Hoy Anne Jefferys Rob Roy Johnson Jamie Nudie Anne Lockhart Dick Jones Neil Summers Don Stroud A.C. Lyles Wyatt Mccrea Paul Picerni Jennifer Rodgers Kevin McCarthy Denny Miller Anne Rutherford Peggy Stewart Joe Spencer Tracy Kiki Ebsen Jack Williams

William Wellman Jr.

2005

Richard Anderson Cheryl Rodgers Barnett Cliff Emmrich Diamond Farnsworth Marie Harmon Lois Hall Whitey Hughes Loren Janes George Keymas A.C. Lyles Petrine Mitchum Donna Martell Noel Neil Andrew Prine Paul Picerni Ann Rutherford Dana Wynter John Saxton William Wellman Jr. Peggy Stewart Neil Summers Morgan Woodward

2006

Diamond Farnsworth Ben Murphy Cheryl Rogers Barnett Ed Faulkner Colleen Gray Teddy Infuhr Henry Silva

Loren Janes Dick Jones Donna Martell William Wellman Jr. Jan Merlin Robert Easton Peggy Stewart Dave Stamey Ian Tyson

2007

Loren Janes Wyatt McCrea Ben Murphy Gregg Palmer Tom Reese Elaine Riley Peggy Stewart William Wellman Chuck Street

2008

Richard Anderson Michael Chapin Phyllis Coats Richard Devon Diamond Farnsworth Robert Horton Loren Janes Geoffrey Lewis John Locke Denny Miller Jacqueline Scott Warren Stevens Peggy Stewart Beverly Washburn Audrey Dalton Jamie Lee Nudie

2009

Stella Stevens Andrew Prine Hugh O’Brian Ben Cooper Denny Miller Dick Jones Ernest Borgnine William Wellman Jr. Peggy Stewart Geri Jewell Perry King Loren Janes Diamond Farnsworth Dean Smith

2010

Cheryl Rodgers Barnett Bruce Boxleitner Robert Dix Don Edwards Diamond Farnsworth Lee Horsley Loren Janes Donna Martell Hugh O’Brian Paul Picerni TY Power Andrew Prine Sourdough Slim Packy Smith William Smith Peggy Stewart Buck Taylor

2011

Dean Smith Diamond Farnsworth Ed Faulkner Loren Janes Marie Harmon Peggy Stewart Peter Ford Wyatt McCrea

2012

Ed Faulkner Diamond Farnsworth Johnny Crawford Loren Janes Larry Maurice Peggy Stewart Robert Crawford Jr. Stanley Livingston

2013

Leonard Maltin Andrew Prine David Rothel Mariette Hartley L.Q. Jones Clu Gulager *Billy King *Dean Smith Dan Hornak Wyatt McCrea Larry Maurice Peggy Stewart Loren Janes Diamond Farnsworth *Did not attend

Andrew Robinson

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, October 9 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.

Museum Gala Opening Night Reception Lone Pine Museum of Film History. Cost: $10 for museum members, $20 for nonmembers.

7 p.m.

Concert: Cow Bop High School Auditorium. Ticket prices: $35/$45.

Photo by Darcy Ellis

Photo courtesy Film Museum

The Film History Museum will be the site of a Gala Opening Night Reception on Oct. 9.

Photo courtesy Cow Bop

Above: Actress Mariette Hartley signs autographs for fans at The Building during the 2013 festival. At left: Cow Bop will help kick off the 25th Annual Film Festival with a Thursday-night concert.

Friday, October 10 7 a.m.-8 a.m.

Screening: “Dynamite Pass” High School Auditorium. One screening only. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

7 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

The Building, corner of U.S. 395 and Tim Holt Street.

Shopping/Entertainment: Arts & Crafts Fair (vendors/music) Spainhower Park, north end of town.

9 a.m.-10 a.m.

Discussion: “Tim Holt,” with David Rothel Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

Screening: “Bad Day at Blackrock” Museum Theater. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

8 a.m.-10 a.m.

Tour: Dynamite Pass: Tim Holt Remembered (Bus)

10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Screening/Discussion: “Bar 20,” with Dick Bann High School Auditorium. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

Discussion: “Remembering William Witney,” with Jay Dee Witney Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.

Screening: “Dynamite Pass” High School Auditorium. One screening only. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

Tour: A Good Day at Black Rock (Car Caravan) Tour: Ansel Adams: In the Footsteps 1 p.m.-2 p.m.

Discussion: “Grandpa Joel,” with of the Master (Car Caravan) Wyatt McCrea 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Museum Theater. Admittance by Tour: Lone Ranger (Car Caravan) Festival Button only.

9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Anchor Ranch (Walking) 1 p.m.-3 p.m.

9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking) Tour: Gunga Din (Bus) Discussion/Presentation/Screening: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

“Death Valley Days” and Rio Tinto’s Shopping/Autographs: Vendors and Restoration of Episodes, with Steve Celebrity Guests Wystrach and guest Donna Martell

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High School Auditorium. Admittance by Festival Button only.

1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Tour: Hopalong Cassidy – Bar 20 Ranch Tour (Car Caravan)

1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tour: Hollywood’s Backlot Tour (Car Caravan)

3 p.m.

Screening: “Comanche Station” High School Auditorium. Followed

by Q&A with Sandra Tyler, Randolph Scott’s daughter. Admittance by Festival Button only.

3 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Tour: Audie Murphy (Bus)

3:30 p.m.-6 p.m.

Tour: North-South (Bus)

5 p.m.-6 p.m.

Wild West Show: The Groat Family High School Quad. Button-Holders and/ or a $15 Special Event Ticket.

7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Screening: “Gunga Din” High School Auditorium. Panel to follow with Ben Burtt and Craig Barron. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, October 11 6 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Tour: Sunrise (Car Caravan)

7 a.m.-8:15 a.m.

Screening: “Secrets of the Wasteland” High School Auditorium. One screening only. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

7 a.m.-10 a.m.

VFW Breakfast Post 8036, 481 S. Main St. All Visitors Welcome.

7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Tour: Owens River 1900 Water Wars (Car Caravan)

8 a.m.-11 a.m.

Tour: Secrets of the Wasteland (Bus)

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Screening/Discussion: “Bar 20,” with Dick Bann High School Auditorium. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.

Discussion/Presentation: John Wayne’s “The Shootist,” with Miles Swarthout Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.

Tour: Ansel Adams: In the Footsteps of the Master (Car Caravan)

8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Tour: Lone Pine’s Backlot (Car Caravan)

9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking)

9:30 a.m.-Noon

Tour: A Good Day at Blackrock (Car Caravan)

9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Shopping/Autographs: Vendors and Celebrity Guests The Building, corner of U.S. 395 and Tim Holt Street.

Shopping/Entertainment: Arts & Crafts Fair (vendors/music) Spainhower Park, north end of town.

10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Discussion: “Wild Bill, Hollywood Maverick,” with William Wellman Jr.

Photo courtesy Paramount

John Wayne in a scene from “The Shootist,” his final film and one adapted to the screen by 2014 Film Festival guest Miles Swarthout.

Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

Noon

Panel: “Happy Birthday, Clayton Moore,” featuring Rob Word, Dawn Moore, Johnny Crawford, Donna Martell and David Rothel High School Quad. Admittance by Festival Button only.

Noon-2:30 p.m.

Tour: Gunga Din (Bus)

12:30 p.m.-3 p.m.

Tour: North-South (Bus)

1 p.m.-3 p.m.

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking)

1 p.m.-4 p.m.

Tour: The Lone Ranger (Car Caravan)

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Discussion/Presentation: Cheryl Rogers-Barnett, Roy and Dale’s daughter, screens revised biographical film on Roy Museum Theater.

Admittance by Festival Button only.

1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Tour: Hopalong Cassidy Original Bar 20 Ranch (Car Caravan)

2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Panel: Stunt Actors Diamond Farnsworth, Loren Janes, Dean Smith and Sylvia Durando High School Quad. Admittance by Festival Button only.

3 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Screening: “Brotherhood of the Popcorn,” featuring Woody Wise and the Cliffhangers Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

4 p.m.

Discussion: Ed Faulkner on John Wayne High School Auditorium. Admittance by Festival Button only.

4:30 p.m.

Discussion: “Lone Pine Film Festival’s Top Ten Western Movie Tunes,” with David Matuszak Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

5 p.m.-6 p.m.

Wild West Show: The Groat Family High School Quad. Button-Holders and/or a $15 Special Event Ticket.

7 p.m.

Special Screening: “Far From the West” High School Auditorium. Admittance by Festival Button only.

7:30 p.m.

Screening: “Macahans” High School Auditorium. Followed by Q&A with Bruce Boxleitner. Seating limited to 300. Admittance by Festival Button only.

9:30 p.m.-Midnight

Fifth Annual Cowboy Karaoke Contest Mt. Whitney Restaurant.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday, October 12 6 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Shopping/Autographs – Vendors and Celebrity Guests The Building, corner of U.S. 395 and Tim Holt Street.

Shopping/Entertainment – Arts & Crafts Fair (vendors/music) Spainhower Park, north end of town.

Tour: Sunrise (Car Caravan)

7 a.m.-10 a.m.

VFW Breakfast Post 8036, 481 S. Main St. All Visitors Welcome.

8 a.m.

Screening: “Showdown” High School Auditorium. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

8:30 a.m.-9 a.m.

Tour: Lone Pine’s Backlot (Car Caravan)

Tour: North-South (Bus)

3 p.m.-5 p.m.

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking)

5 p.m.-6 p.m.

Special Screening: “One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct” Museum Theater. Followed by a Q&A with artist Lauren Bon and packers Jen and Lee Roeser. Admittance by Festival Button only.

9:45 a.m.-Noon

Tour: Audie Murphy (Bus)

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Meet and Great: Festival Celebrities Live KIBS remote broadcast at Lone Pine McDonald’s.

Cowboy Church Spainhower Ranch. All Visitors Welcome.

9 a.m.-Noon

2:30 p.m.-5 p.m.

Dusk

1 p.m.

Parade of Stars Main Street.

Sunday Night Closing Campfire Spainhower Park. Hosted by past festival director Dorothy Bonnefin and longtime supporter, MC and cowboy poet Larry Maurice.

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Screenings Bring Rare Opportunities n addition to showing several Westerns shot in the Alabama Hills and surrounding Eastern Sierra, the Lone Pine Film Festival will also be hosting two special screenings in 2014: one, a documentary about perhaps the biggest Western fan on Earth; the other, a look at last year’s large-scale artist action that tied Los Angeles to its water source in the Owens Valley.

“Far From the West” will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 in the Lone Pine High School Auditorium. The 20-minute short tells the story of Paulo Tardin, owner of one of the biggest Western movie collections in the world and a great enthusiast of the Lone Pine Film Festival. During an interview at his own film library at home in the small town of Bom Jesus do Itabapoana in the northern state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paulo talks about his love of Westerns and his coming to the Lone Pine Film Festival in 1991 – he took a taxi all the way from LAX to Lone Pine – and his experience of being with childhood heroes such as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry

Quilt raffle begins

Photo by Osceola Refetoff

A rider participating in the “100 Mules Walking the L.A. Aqueduct” event waves to spectators in the Alabama Hills as the procession makes its way to Lone Pine last October. A special screening of the “One Hundred Mules” documentary is being offered at the festival, along with a screening of “Far from the West.”

and Monte Hale. Paulo returned to Lone Pine two other times.

Rená Tardin is director, editor and screenwriter.

The second film, “One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct,” will be shown from 5-6 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 12 in the Film History Museum’s Wild West Theater. The documentary travels along with Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio as they perform “One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct,” a

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commemorative artist action to reconnect Los Angeles to its water supply by walking the entire 240-mile route of the L.A. Aqueduct with a team of 100 mules. The action marked the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the aqueduct, which started bringing water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 1913. Bon will be present for a Q&A following the film along with Jen and Lee Roeser (8 Mile Ranch/McGee Pack Station), who hired the mules and directed the wranglers.

collaborative effort that’s resulted in a truly one-of-a-kind keepsake, the 70-inch by 70-inch “Happy Trails” quilt featuring 13 separate Western-themed patterns.

The quilt is actually an eagerly anticipated, sought-after raffle prize, and will be premiered during the 2014 Film Festival. The winning ticket to be drawn at the 2015 event. Proceeds from ticket sales will support the Lone Pine Film History Museum.

Tickets will be available for $1 each or $5 for six, at the Lone Pine Film History Museum and at the Festival Ticket Office.

The quilt was originally designed by Pearl P. Pereira with Western scenes inspired by her many trips to Texas: cowboy boots and silhouettes, wagon wheels, saddles, pistols, flowers and much more.

The 24-inch center block is surrounded by 12-inch album style blocks. The finishing touch is the barbed wire swag border filled with roses, purple sage, bluebonnets, wagon wheels and stars. The quilt squares were made by the Mt. Whitney Quilt Guild, with final hand quilting by Sue Henley. A real piece of art.

Photo courtesy Roadside Attractions

Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank star in the upcoming 2014 film, “The Homesman,” based on the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout.

He also wrote “The Shootist,” which became John Wayne’s final film. Swarthout’s son, Miles, worked on both screenplays and will be giving a presentation Saturday at the museum.

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Effects specialists, Screenwriter Offer Presentations on Two Popular Films

ndustry insiders will be waiting in the wings to offer anecdotes and insight into the filming of two popular movies at the Lone Pine Film Festival this year.

Before and after Friday’s 7:30 p.m. screening of “Gunga Din” (1939), Hollywood effects artists Ben Burtt and Craig Barron will take audience members behind the scenes of the RKO adventure film – which thrilled and surprised moviegoers with its grand spectacle and fast-paced adventure against the dramatic backdrop of Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills. Still one of Hollywood’s all-time great action movies, “Gunga Din” is a rollicking comedyadventure inspired by the Rudyard Kipling poem and translated to the screen by director George Stevens. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Victor McLaglen star as three “musketeers” in the British-ruled India of the 1890s, and Sam Jaffe is their loyal and touching native water carrier. While dated in some of its stereotypes and depictions of colonial rule, it remains one helluva ripping

yarn and a distinguished ancestor of the Indiana Jones films.

Barron, an Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor, will discuss the use of mattes and special effects to recreate 19th century India (the film was shot entirely in Lone Pine).

Burtt, four-time Oscar winner for his sound design on the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, will use period rifles to demonstrate the movie’s distinctive sounds – ones he lovingly replicated in his contributions to “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The screening and discussion take place in the Lone Pine High School Auditorium. Guests must have a Film Festival Button to attend.

Most movie fans remember “The Shootist” (1976) as John Wayne’s final film, in which he starred as an aging gunfighter dying of cancer – the same disease Wayne was fighting at the time and which w ould eventually take his life.

But, like many acclaimed movies, “The Shootist” began as a novel, this one written by

Glendon Swarthout. It was adapted for the screen by his son, Miles Swarthout, who will be giving a presentation about the book and film from 8:30-10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 in the Film Festival Wild West Theater.

In addition to screenwriting, Miles is also a novelist and in 2004 won the Spur Award for his first Western, “The Sergeant’s Lady.”

His new novel, “The Last Shootist,” is a sequel to his father’s classic 1975 novel.

Miles also helped write the screenplay for “The Homesman,” another movie based on one of his late father’s novels, published in 1988. “The Homesman” is now one of the most anticipated movies of 2014, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Tim Blake Nelson and Meryl Streep. Miles also worked on the original screenplay back in 1987 for its original director, Paul Newman, and can answer questions about its making.

Attendees of Saturday’s presentation on “The Shootist” must have a Film Festival Button for admittance.

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Who was that masked man?

Find out during Special Birthday Celebration Panel

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Though he enjoyed a long and varied career, Clayton Moore is best remembered as the Lone Ranger, a hero to children and adults alike.

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he actor most associated for his portrayal as one of the world’s most famous heroes would have turned 100 this year.

He was born Jack Carlton Moore on Sept. 14, 1914. As an actor he was known as Clayton Moore. As the Lone Ranger he became an American icon.

Moore was so identified with the masked man that he is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to have his character’s name along with his own on the star. The tribute reads: “Clayton Moore – The Lone Ranger.”

The Lone Pine Film Festival has planned a tribute of its own for Moore in honor of his centennial year. A “Happy Birthday Clayton Moore” panel discussion will be held at noon on Saturday, Oct. 11 in the Lone Pine High School Quad, featuring friends, family and former colleagues reminiscing about the actor – on

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stage and off.

The panel will be led by Moore’s friend, producer/writer Rob Word, who is currently the senior vice president for Creative Affairs at Insight Film Studios. Participating will be Moore’s daughter, Dawn Moore, who has made a name for herself in Hollywood as an expert on marketing and luxury retail; as well as one-time co-star Johnny Crawford; friend and fellow actor Donna Martell; and author/Western film historian David Rothel, who wrote “Who Was That Masked Man? The Story of The Lone Ranger.”

While best known as the “Masked Rider of the Plains,” the penultimate Good Guy, Clayton’s acting career actually includes many other roles on both sides of the law. He had a small role in “Zorro’s Fighting Legion,” one of Republic Studios’ top serials. As his parts increased in size, he was a

detective tracking down evil Nazi Bela Lugosi in “Black Dragons,” an archeologist aided by a jungle goddess in “Perils of Nyoka,” a conniving thug in another top serial, “The Crimson Ghost,” and a whitewashed Jesse James in two more serials, all before donning a hero’s mask as – no, not the Lone Ranger – but as “Ken Mason,” the grandson of Zorro, in “Ghost of Zorro.”

Obviously there’s much to learn about Moore, including what happened behind the scenes during the Lone Ranger years.

When did he first become the Lone Ranger? How was he cast? What did the role mean to him and how did it affect his personality? Why was he replaced in the TV series? Who took his mask away and forbid him to wear it? Find out with exciting film clips and revealing conversations at the Saturday afternoon panel.

Wild West Show back by popular demand Stunt performers return for Silver Anniversary

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opular with attendees last year, the Groat Family Wild West Show returns to Lone Pine Oct. 10-12 for the 25th Annual Lone Pine Film Festival.

Packing serious stunt skills in addition to prop pistols and rifles, the Groats are some of the most wellknown performers of realistic Wild West shows the world over. Each member of the show is a professional performer, if not a card-carrying Screen Actors Guild member.

The result is the longest ongoing family Wild West show in U.S. history – a mix of real Western action, impressive Western stunts and interesting plot lines.

According to the Groats, their performances consist of reenactments of history combined with displays of showmanship, sharp-shooting, stunts,

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The Groat Family Wild West Show combines compelling storyline with real Western action and impressive stunts.

vaudeville elements and presentations of “historical” scenes in which they take “poetic license” in presenting and embellishing upon the period action and adventure of fights, robberies and Wild West shoot-outs.

The show includes bullwhip and trick gun artistry, audience participation, comedy and action. They do not use blood effects, or bad language.

The family began their show in

1964 providing Western entertainment for events of all kinds and, as the opportunity presented itself, acted in Western films.

The matriarch of the family, Gypsy Bell Groat, was a child actor for MGM in the 1940s, and her father, Clifford Groat, was a director for the old silent films and early talkies at Pathé Studios.

It was only natural that the family grew into their passion of celebrating and honoring the West and Western

culture.

As the family grew, so did their mission. The Groat Family performers have presented more than 5,344 shows all over California and the West at grand openings, corporate events, festivals, parades, charities, schools, weddings and birthday parties. They have performed for major venues including Disney and Knott’s Berry Farm and other Hollywood corporations. In addition, family members can be found as actors with credits ranging from background extras to key roles.

“I see our Western film history as an important part of our American roots, and one of the foundations of our artistic culture,” says Rick Groat, a SAG member with more 40 film and TV credits under his belt. His latest venture, “Ride the Wanted Trail,” is an independent movie produced solely by the family.

Catch the Groats’ Wild West Show from 5-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the High School Quad.

25 years of movie magic: remembering Dave Holland

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Festival co-founder left indelible mark on annual event

ave Holland was already indulging his love of B Westerns by visiting places where old movies had been filmed when he made what he considered a fascinating discovery in the 1960s – Lone Pine!

“Looking at a Gene Autry photo from ‘Boots and Saddles,’” Holland wrote in his book, “I noticed that he and his sidekick, ‘Frog’ (Smiley Burnett), were sitting on their horses by a tall, thick, cucumber-shaped rock which was – it was so obvious it was startling – at the very same spot where the Indian chase in ‘How the West Was Won’ began, and where Tim Holt had tried ditching a posse in one of his RKO pictures called ‘Guns of Hate’!”

Kerry Powell, a native of the area, had been thinking about creating a celebration of the town’s movie heritage when a friend suggested she meet Holland.

They joined forces and together launched the Lone Pine festival in 1990. Holland served as its director from 1991-99 using his Hollywood

contacts to line up celebrity guests who had filmed on location in the area, and he played host to panel discussions.

The gregarious Holland was at his most enthusiastic leading festival tour bus groups through the spectacular, boulder-laden Alabama Hills, which lie below Mt. Whitney on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada about 200 miles north of Los Angeles.

Thanks to Holland’s tireless research, festival-goers can visit nearly 120 photo markers set exactly where

movie cameras once stood to film John Wayne riding down a pass in “Westward Ho” (1935), Cary Grant and Sam Jaffe crossing a suspension bridge in “Gunga Din” (1939) and Tyrone Power awaiting possible death in “King of the Khyber Rifles” (1953).

Holland compiled his Alabama Hills finds in a 1990 pictorial guide, “On Location in Lone Pine.” He later revised and updated the book and produced and hosted two Lone Pine location videos.

“It wasn’t enough that he’d made these great discoveries about the locations in Lone Pine,” film historian Leonard Maltin told The L.A. Times.

“He wanted to share it with other movie buffs who’d appreciate the excitement of standing on the exact spot where a Tom Mix or Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy had made their films. His enthusiasm was infectious.”

Holland passed away on Nov. 14, 2005, but his love of movies and Lone Pine lives on in the festival he helped bring to life.

Ray Powell A driving force The names Kerry Powell and Dave Holland are synonymous with the Lone Pine Film Festival. But the “behind the scenes driving force” was Kerry’s husband, Ray. His love of community and team-building volunteerism energized every local event.

Ray passed away Feb. 8, 2004 but his energy still drives the Lone Pine Film Festival.

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Movie Mania Trivia Test your knowledge of cinema against these question about films made in Lone Pine and the Eastern Sierra:

Photo courtesy Cow Bop

The members of Cow Bop enjoy a collective experience that crosses the spectrum of American music, from jazz and swing to bluegrass and honky-tonk. The band performs at Lone Pine High School on Thursday to kick off the Film Festival.

Cow Bop in Concert

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Kick up your heels and kick off the 25th Annual Lone Pine Film Festival

or its Silver Anniversary, the Lone Pine Film Festival will be serenaded by the guys and gals of Cow Bop – a unique and fun Western fusion band that last performed here in 2012.

Cow Bop is not only helping the festival celebrate 25 years, but is also helping to kick off the 2014 event in style, offering attendees of the Thursday night concert their trademark mix of swingin’ grooves, thrilling riffs, sweet and hot vocals and acoustic Western sensibilities.

The band is set to take the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday at Lone Pine High School, directly following the Museum Gala Opening Night Reception across the street.

Tickets are $35 and $40.

If you missed Cow Bop in 2012, this is your second chance.

Formed in 2003 by internationallyacclaimed guitarist Bruce Forman, the cowboy jazz and Western bebop band has toured extensively throughout the country, exciting audiences with their unique and infectious brand of Western music.

The band’s collective experience crosses the spectrum of American music, from the hottest jazz and the coolest swing to the fiercest bluegrass and most downhome honky-tonk. Comfortable in such diverse settings as from Carnegie Hall and roadside taverns, the band always hits the stage with an electrifying and entertaining

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assortment of music and frolic. Along with Forman on guitar, the band features Pinto Pammy on vocals – whose talent and experiences range from big band swing and old-time country to musical theater – and fiddlin’ Phil Salazar, who lights up the stage with his world-renown swing, Americana, bluegrass and jazz stylings. Put that on top of a rhythm section of Alex King, bass, and Jake Reed, drums, that are as swingin and rockin’ as a rodeo bronc but as sure-footed as a prized pack mule and you get Cow Bop. In 2004, Cow Bop won the Route 66 Challenge, traveling the length of the storied road having departed with a mere $100 and no scheduled gigs. Their new CD, “Too Hick for the Room,” hit trails last June.

Along with numerous appearances at esteemed nightclubs and festivals across the country, Cow Bop has also been featured at the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Elko, Heber City, Monterey and Santa Clarita Cowboy Gatherings. The band has performed with Riders in the Sky, Dwight Yoakam, Hot Club of Cowtown, Don Edwards and the Quebe Sisters.

For an extra treat, check out Forman’s guitar work featured in Clint Eastwood’s films, including Academy Award-winning “Million Dollar Baby,” “Flags of our Fathers” and “Hereafter.”

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1. Which two Star Trek movies were filmed in Inyo and Mono counties?

2. What actress starred opposite Josh Brolin in what 1998 movie filmed in Death Valley?

3. Which director, who worked many times in Lone Pine, is credited with devising the modern system of filming fight sequences?

4. When did Roy Rogers and Dale Evans first appear on screen together, and in what year?

5. What was the first movie ever shot in Lone Pine (1920) and who was its star?

6. For whom was Loren Janes serving as stunt double when he worked on the film “How the West Was Won” in Lone Pine in 1962?

7. What year saw the most films on location in Lone Pine and the Eastern Sierra?

8. Which two films have brought Robert Downey Jr. to Southern Inyo?

9. What year was Steve McQueen here filming “Nevada Smith”?

10. In which Inyo County community did the music group Daft Punk film their 2006 music video/short film “Electroma”?

11. Lee Van Cleef and James Coburn both had parts in what 1959 movie filmed in Lone Pine?

12. How many Lone Pine Film Festivals has star Peggy Stewart attended?

13. How many Lone Pine Film Festivals has star Loren Janes attended?

14. Which famous movie cowboy started out his acting career with the name Dick Weston?

15. Current Lone Pine Film Museum Director Bob Sigman was himself a guest of the festival in what year?

16. Which actor had uncredited roles in the following three local films, in addition to episodes of “Death Valley Days”: “Sand” (1949), “Broken Arrow” (1950) and

“Nevada Smith” (1966)?

17. William Wellman directed three films in Lone Pine, and also the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. What was this film?

18. “The Ox-Box Incident,” filmed locally in 1943, is based on a book written by whom?

19. Brad Pitt and David Duchovney starred in which film made in Darwin?

20. Which three films made in the Lone Pine area all begin with “G.I.”?

21. What 1940 movie, filmed almost entirely in the Alabama Hills, was the feature version of Republic Pictures’ Lone Ranger serial?

22. Who was Humphrey Bogart’s leading lady in 1941’s “High Sierra”?

23. Who were the three godfathers in 1948’s “3 Godfathers,” which filmed primarily in Death Valley?

24. Director John Ford had previously adapted the novelette “3 Godfathers” into a film in 1919 that was called what?

25. What Gene Autry film was shown at the Lone Pine Film Festival for the first time in 2013?

26. Which famous director and ardent Lone Pine fan is responsible for this quote: “My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. I’ll be the crazy old movie guy.”

27. The exterior of the Inyo County Courthouse in Independence was temporarily cosmetically aged for what 1997 comedy?

28. Russell Crowe, who shot scenes for “Gladiator” in Lone Pine in 2000, went on to star in what Western several years later?

29. To this day, which production remains the largest ever staged in Inyo County?

30. In what year did Budd Boetticher direct his final Lone Pine film, and what was it?

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Some of Hollywood’s best stunt actors relive the action

one Pine’s favorite fall guys are gathering Saturday, Oct. 11 for a panel discussion on stunt acting in some of Hollywood’s most famous films.

Many of those movies were made right here in Lone Pine, and attendees of the 25th annual Film Festival will be able to hear behindthe-scenes stories and insights from four of the industries top stunt actors.

Diamond Farnsworth will lead the discussion featuring fellow professional daredevils Loren Janes, Dean Smith and Sylvia Durando as they talk about the art of stunt acting and field questions from the audience. The event takes place from 2-3:30 p.m. in the High School Quad.

The fearless foursome’s resume is not only extensive, it’s incredibly varied and includes plenty of awardwinners.

During his five-decade career, Janes has performed stunts or served as stunt coordinator for 500 movies and 2,100 television episodes. He’s perhaps best known as serving as Steve McQueen’s stunt double for more than two decades.

He’s also doubled for Paul Newman and Jack Nicholson.

Some of the more notable films for which Jane performed stunts include “The Ten Commandments” (1956), “Spartacus” (1960), “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), “Planet of the Apes” (1968), “The Towering Inferno” (1974), “Blazing Saddles” (1974), “Escape from New York” (1981), “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984), “Back to the Future” (1985), “¡Three Amigos!” (1986), “The Abyss” (1989), “In the Line of Fire” (1993), “Casino” (1995), “Wild West West” (2001) and “Spider Man” (2002).

Farnsworth has built a similar reputation and resume during his own four-decade career. On Saturday of the festival, he’ll share stories

Dean Smith leaps after fellow stuntman Everett Creach on the motorcycle (doubling Chris Mitchum) for a scene from 1970’s “Big Jake.”

from his many years working as both a stunt actor and stunt coordinator for the movies and television.

Farnsworth has been the stunt coordinator for popular TV series “NCIS” since its premier in 2003; he also oversaw stunts on “JAG” for the duration of the series, 1995-2005, and for “Quantum Leap” from 19891991.

On the big screen, he’s been stunt coordinator for such major motion pictures as “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (1985), “The Big Easy” (1986), “No Way Out” (1987) and “The Dead Pool” (1988).

Smith has done stunt work on a wide array on feature films, including “Pork Chop Hill” (1959).

“How the West was Won” (1962), “The Birds” (1963), “The Great Race” (1965), “True Grit” (1969), “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance

Kid” (1969), “Airport” (1970), “Big Jake” (1971), “Jeremiah Johnson” (1972), “The Sting” (1973), “The Towering Inferno” (1974), “Raw Deal” (1986), “Maverick” (1994) and “The Quick and the Dead” (1995). He has also worked on numerous television projects.

Some of the feature films that Durando worked in were “Jailhouse Rock”(1957) with Elvis Presley, “The Big Circus” (1959) with Victor Mature, “One Eyed Jacks” (1961) with Marlon Brando, “Taras Bulba” (1962) with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner and “Kitten with a Whip” (1964) with Ann Margret and John Forsythe, among others. One of her fondest memories was working as the stunt woman and double for leading lady Nancy Gates in Randolph Scott’s “Comanche Station” (1960), directed by Budd Boetticher in Lone Pine.

Loren Janes is one of the key figures in the development of modern cinematic stunt design and improved safety procedures, and co-founder of the Stuntmen’s Association of Motion Pictures & Television.

She also worked in several television productions including a full season of the immensely popular “Have Gun Will Travel” with Richard Boone as Paladin.

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Remembering the man behind the museum Jim Rogers’ Legacy will Live on Through Memories He’s Made Possible

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he town of Lone Pine, and lovers of Western movies everywhere, lost a friend this past June with the passing of Jim Rogers.

A serious movie buff, business owner and philanthropist who helped Lone Pine’s dream of building a film history museum come true eight years ago, Rogers died June 14, 2014 at his Las Vegas home following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Rogers leaves behind his wife, Beverly, and three children, as well as a legacy that will live on through the Lone Pine Film History Museum – a brick-and-mortar reminder of his fondness for the movies as well as his dedication to their preservation.

It was in the early 1990s, when the Film Festival was just growing into its own, that Rogers discovered Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills. A love affair was born, and when the community decided it needed a place to showcase its widespread collection of movie memorabilia, Rogers pledged $1 million to the project.

“Jim loved the heroes and heroines of classic Hollywood,” said Museum Director Bob Sigman, “and so it was a natural thing for him to embrace the community and their efforts to celebrate Western heroes like Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Gene Autry and John Wayne, to name a few.”

Rogers placed a condition on the donation: the community had to purchase the property itself – as a show of good faith that residents would support and believe in the project enough to invest in it.

Sure enough, the community leaders’ dream of a museum that would pay tribute to legends of the silver screen was not only

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supported by residents, but embraced on a widespread level by fans all over the country.

The idea of a place to store memorabilia had grown into the concept of providing exhibits and archives that would forever tell the story of good versus bad; of white hat over black; of a creed that tells us to be good, be honest and be fair because truth alone lives on forever.

Rogers was there to fund administrative and legal support and when the community delivered on its promise of acquiring land, he immediately put his resources in place to build the structure.

By 2006, Lone Pine had a film museum. Inside were many exhibits provided by Rogers himself, everything from costumes and saddles that he purchased at auction, to posters and vehicles Rogers housed in his personal collection of more than 300 automobiles.

A 1956 graduate of Las Vegas High School, Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a law degree, both from the University of Arizona. He also earned a master of law degree

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from the University of Southern California.

In addition to owning KSNV-TV, Channel 3, in Las Vegas, Rogers served as the ninth chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education from 2005-09, after serving one year as interim chancellor.

Movie fans will best remember Rogers as a kindred spirit. And the community of Lone Pine will forever be grateful for his generosity, inspiration and support.

His legacy, Sigman said, “will

remain the memories that he provides for countless visitors to the museum.

Grandfathers sharing with their sons and grandsons memories of Saturday matinee B Westerns recognize their favorite cowboy’s poster, a watch from a cereal carton, a comic book, a bicycle, a badge or one of thousands of other collectibles marketed during their youth. It’s touching to see them reminisce. Their eyes become dreamy and old memories become clear as they tell of their long-forgotten childhood.”

Personal collection on display in Hoppy exhibit

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Treasured Memorabilia on Loan from Fan

ttendees of the 25th Anniversary Lone Pine Film Festival will find new and renovated exhibits at the Lone Pine Film History Museum.

Among those is the updated Hopalong Cassidy exhibit, which now has an extensive range of memorabilia that includes original film posters, comic books, plates, lunch boxes, clothes, toy guns, milk cartons, watches, games, table lights and much more. The vast majority of these items have been donated by a fan who collected them for much of her life.

“Our smaller and initial exhibit was through the courtesy of U.S. Television Inc., the copyrights holder to the Hoppy Library and presentday merchandising,” Museum Director Bob Sigman said. “Many of these items remain on display.”

Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most important characters associated with Lone Pine. As conceived on the page by Clarence E. Mulford, he was a hard drinking, tobacco chewing,

rough talking character with a limp that made him “Hop-a-long.”

When he was brought to the screen in 1935, as interpreted by actor William Boyd, he became a respectable cowboy hero who did not smoke, drink or swear. Although Boyd came to the silver screen in the early 1920s and was a matinee idol, he became indelibly associated with the Hopalong Cassidy character while making 66 “Hoppy” films, 31 of which were filmed in and around Lone Pine.

The series and characters were so popular that Hopalong Cassidy was featured on the cover of national magazines such as Look, Life and Time. Boyd earned millions as Hopalong ($800,000 in 1950 alone), mostly f r o m merchandise licensing and endorsement deals.

In 1 9 5 0 , Hopalong Cassidy was featured on the first lunchbox to bear an image, causing sales for Aladdin Industries to jump from 50,000 units

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There are more than 300 pieces of memorabilia and other artifacts comprising the newly expanded Hopalong Cassidy exhibit.

to 600,000 units in just one year.

In stores, more than 100 companies in 1950 manufactured $70 million of Hopalong Cassidy products, including children’s dinnerware, pillows, roller skates, soap, wristwatches and jackknives.

Among those buying the Hoppy merchandise was the Lone Pine Film Museum’s benefactor.

“In June of 2014, we received a call from a long-term friend of the museum,” Sigman said. “That call led to an introduction to one of William Boyd’s most ardent fans, now living near Phoenix, Ariz.”

Along with collecting William Boyd and Hopalong Cassidy memorabilia since age 12 (68 years), the benefactor has documented Boyd’s career in numerous three-ring binders.

“These beautifully cared for artifacts include articles, pictures, photos, letters and so much more,” Sigman said. “Over 300 initial items now make up the Hopalong/Marshall Collection.”

A mint-condition Hopalong bike is a must-see, as is a 1948

fan letter with a beautiful picture of Hoppy and his wife, Grace Bradley Boyd.

Other exhibits currently on display include those dedicated to actor Randolph Scott and legendary directors William Wellman and William Witney (see pages 16 and 17).

Also new, according to Sigman, is a space devoted to the Singing Cowboys.

“Around the campfire, the original cowboys sang of life on the trail with all the challenges, hardships and dangers encountered while pushing cattle for miles up the trails and across the prairies,” Sigman said.

While much of what is included in the genre of “cowboy music” is “traditional,” a number of songs have been written and made famous by groups like the Sons of the Pioneers and Riders in the Sky and individual performers such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Michael Martin Murphy and other singing cowboys. “ … these entertainers have served to preserve the cowboy as a unique American hero,” Sigman said.

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Randolph Scott was a popular leading man but really rocketed to fame when he began starring in Westerns in the late 1940s.

Ronald Reagan introduced “Death Valley Days” from 1964-65.

‘Death Valley Days’ being restored Multinational corporation orders massive undertaking

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inelicious, located in Hollywood and Santa Monica, is currently restoring 458 half-hour episodes of “Death Valley Days,” the syndicated western series that aired from 1952-1970 and was introduced by a number of iconic Western figures, including Ronald Reagan (1964-65).

The show – an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area – was sponsored by U.S. Borax Company.

Cinelicious was tasked by its multinational corporate parent, Rio Tinto, with preserving the series’ legacy.

Steve Wystrach, who manages the U.S. Borax Film Archives and is supervising the restoration at Cinelicious, will be leading a presentation, discussion and screening about Rio Tinto’s restoration of the popular series. Special guest Donna Martell will join Wystrach for the presentation from 1-3 p.m. Friday in the High School Auditorium.

Wystrach was first hired in 2005 to help locate the elements needed for the restoration. Most of the film was stored in

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sub-standard vaults; prior to that it had been in one of the U.S. Borax Company’s old mine sites. Wystrach moved everything to the Hollywood vaults, just blocks from Cinelicious.

At this point, Rio Tinto has no plans to market and distribute the series, so the restoration is “very much about their corporate legacy and the series’ important part in television history,” Wystrach says.

“It’s also about American history, since every episode is based on a factual event.”

During its close to two decades on the air “the show used a lot of different film formats,” says Cinelicious managing director and founding partner Paul Korver. “There was 16mm ECO color, 35mm color negative, and black and white. Some vendors proposed making a new print from the A-B original camera negatives, but we always strive to work from original camera elements because that’s where the gold is. People don’t realize how much information is lost when film is photochemically duplicated and printed. And how much can be gained from a digital intermediate restoration process.”

Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, “Death Valley Days” was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series.

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Randolph Scott gets star treatment at museum New exhibit highlights his work in Westerns

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handsome leading man who developed into one of Hollywood’s greatest and most popular Western stars, Randolph Scott was also a frequent visitor to Lone Pine. Over a 27-year period, he made 12 films here, ranging from “The Thundering Herd” in 1933 to “Comanche Station” in 1960.

Of those movies, four were penned by screenwriter Burt Kennedy, a Lone Pine Film Festival guest in 1996, ’98, ’99 and 2000. Shortly after Kennedy passed away on Aug. 9, 2002, it was revealed he had remembered Lone Pine in his will, bequeathing to the Film Museum his personal copies of the scripts he wrote for those four Randolph Scott films.

Original scripts for “Comanche Station,” “Ride Lonesome” (1959), “Seven Men From Now” (1956) and “The Tall T” (1957) were given to the museum collection and are now on display in a new Randolph Scott exhibit. Kennedy also left the museum lobby cards and other movie memorabilia from his den.

Kennedy “was a great guest and a wonderful friend,” Museum Director Bob Sigman said. “His talent certainly enriched our local film history with those four fine films.”

The new exhibit focuses on the long career of Scott as a leading man in various Westerns.

Scott rose to stardom in the mid1930s with such movies as “She,’’ “The Last Round-Up,’’ ‘’The Last of the Mohicans,’’ “High, Wide and Handsome’’

and ‘’Jesse James.’’ He also appeared in such musicals as ‘’Roberta’’ and “Follow the Fleet,’’ both with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, as well as in such screwball comedies as ‘’My Favorite Wife’’ with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant.

He moved into leading roles at Paramount, although his easy-going charm was not enough to indicate the tremendous success that would come to him later.

Scott was a pleasant figure in comedies, dramas and the occasional adventure, but it was not until he began focusing on Westerns in the late 1940s that he reached his greatest stardom. He starred in about two dozen, including “Santa Fe,’’ “Fort Worth,’’ “Man in the Saddle,’’ “Man Behind the Gun,’’ “Ten Wanted Men,’’ “Ride Lonesome’’ and “Comanche Station.’’ One of his films, “Sugarfoot,’’ became a television series starring Will Hutchins.

He became one of the top box office stars of the 1950s and, in the westerns of Budd Boetticher especially, a critically important figure in the Western as an artform. Following a critically acclaimed, less-heroic-than-usual role in one of the classics of the genre, “Ride the High Country” (1962), Scott retired from films.

A multimillionaire as a result of canny investments, Scott spent his remaining years playing golf and avoiding film industry affairs, stating that he didn’t like publicity. He died March 2, 1987 at age 89.

William Wellman directed the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and the first color movie to receive a nomination.

Directors remembered through exhibit, festival presentations

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Witney and Wellman were two of Lone Pine’s favorites

illiam Witney and William Wellman weren’t just two of the best directors in Hollywood; they were also particular favorites of the town of Lone Pine, having become familiar faces in the community given the frequency with which they came here on location.

It’s only natural then, that the Lone Pine Film History Museum pays tribute to and documents their contributions to the Western film genre via two brandnew exhibits. Film Festival attendees might consider the exhibits complements to two presentations being held over the three-day event: “Remembering William Witney,” with Jay Dee Witney, and “Wild Bill, a Hollywood Maverick,” with William Wellman Jr. The first discussion takes place from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 10 in the Museum Theater. The moderator is the son of Witney and actress Maxine Doyle. Director John (Jack) English, his father’s best friend and partner on all of those Republic serials, was his godfather and simply “Uncle Jack” to young Jay Dee. As he explains it, the picture business in the 1940s was like family, real family, so Jay Dee had many “uncles” growing up, including Davy (Sharp), Roy (Rogers), Jim (Davis), Ralph (Byrd) and others. All of their kids knew each other, played together and some went to the same schools. It was a great time to grow up, he says.

It was natural that Jay Dee would step into Hollywood but he had other aspirations in life, so business took him away from Hollywood for many

years. Out of corporate life now, Jay Dee is returning to his roots. He has uncovered unpublished scripts and screenplays of his dad’s and is working with friends to develop these into books and movies. During Friday’s presentation, Jay Dee will talk about his father’s book, “In a Door, into a Fight, Out a Door, into a Chase,” where he shares some of his memories and adventures from the early days of motion pictures from 1933-45.

Witney directed many B Westerns during the 1940s and ’50s and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982, directing hundreds of feature films and television shows during a 40-year career.

He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with English for Republic Pictures, such as “Daredevils of the Red Circle,” “Zorro’s Fighting Legion” and “Drums of Fu Manchu,” as well as “Lone Ranger,’’ “Dick Tracy’’ and “Captain Marvel.’’ He also directed hundreds of episodes of “Lassie,’’ “Wagon Train,’’ “Bonanza’’ and other television shows.

Witney loved working in the Alabama Hills, shooting more than 100 films/TV episodes in the Eastern Sierra landscape. He especially loved the town of Lone Pine and typically stayed at the historic Dow Hotel.

Another famous Lone Pine fan, “Django Unchained”

director Quentin Tarantino, actually singles out Witney as one of his favorite directors, particularly for “The Golden Stallion” (1949), a Roy Rogers vehicle. “You have to have made movies for 30 years to be able to move the camera so unpretentiously,’’ the director said of Witney in The New York Times in 2000.

From 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday in the museum’s Wild West Theater, Wellman Jr. will similarly be sharing stories about his father’s illustrious career and attraction to Lone Pine with Film Festival attendees. Bill will also talk about his first book, “The Man and His Wings” and the award-winning documentary, “Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick.” Bill’s next book, “Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,” will be released in March 2015. Copies are available in the museum store and online at www.williamwellmanjr.com. Copies purchased online may be brought to the festival and signed by Bill.

Wellman worked on more than 80 films, as an actor, director, producer or consultant, but most often as a director. Most notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, he also directed several well-regarded satirical comedies. Wellman directed the 1927 film “Wings,” the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, and “A Star is Born” (1937), the first color film nominated for an Academy Award.

He directed “A Star Is Born” in Lone Pine, as well as “The Man and His Wings” (1927), “The Ox-Bow Incident” (1943) and “Yellow Sky” (1948).

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TOURS

The “A Good Day at Black Rock” tour gets its name from the locations it visits that were used in the film “A Bad Day at Black Rock.”

A Good Day at Black Rock • • • •

Tour guide: Jerry Condit Friday: 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.

Saturday: 9:30 a.m.-Noon Screening: 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m. on Friday at Museum Theater First Stop: Owens Dry Lake. These strange flat areas have been used for races and scenes for several movies including “Courageous Avenger,” “Army Girl” and Mel Gibson’s “Maverick.” Second Stop: “Black Rock” movie town site which gives the tour its name, “A Good Day at Black Rock.” Using large photos and sharing humorous anecdotes, Mr. Condit will lead folks through the area. A short walking distance from “Black Rock,” the tour

will then take a stroll to the site of the ghost town set that was used in “The Law and Jake Wade.” This particular location provides guests with a great photo op. Third Stop: A short drive back into the Alabama Hills to the “Gunga Din” bridge area where Ernest Borgnine ran Tracy down into the ravine. Fourth Stop: Back to the Alabama Hills location where the climax of the movie took place. Your turn to hide behind the rock that Robert Ryan comes from behind when Tracy throws the Molotov cocktail at him. Kaboom!

Study up and see if you can stump Jerry on trivia!

CAR CARAVAN 2.5 to 3 hours

Spainhowers. The ranch has been used in Westerns for more than 80 years. First, walk where Fatty Arbuckle, Fred Humes, Ken Maynard and many silent range heroes worked in the good old days. Then travel to Anchor Ranch Anchor Ranch where more than 70 films • Tour guide: Debbie Kielb worked. It played the Bar 20 and many other • Friday: 9 a.m.-11 a.m.; 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ranches. It is where the Hallmark Channel filmed so many scenes for their made-for • Saturday: 9 a.m.-11 a.m.; television film, “What I Did For Love.” Now 1 p.m.-3 p.m. you can see behind the scenes of this very • Sunday: 3 p.m.-5 p.m.

Explore the location for many Hopalong famous film location. Remember: This is a Cassidy and Tim Holt films, Anchor Ranch, real working ranch so you might just get a which is currently a working ranch owned glimpse of what ranching is like today. and operated by three generations of WALKING 2 hours

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BUS: Buses contain 54 seats and leave from south parking lot of Museum.

WALKING: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

CAR CARAVAN: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

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Anchor Ranch during its hey day, when movie sets were as common as cattle.

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TOURS

Attendees of the Ansel Adams tour will be able to stand exactly where the master photographer stood to capture some of his most iconic shots.

Ansel Adams: In the Footsteps of the Master • Tour guide: Catherine Kravitz • Friday: 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.

• Saturday: 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m.

Ansel Adams said, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand” Join Catherine Kravitz, museum staff and docent, as she follows Ansel Adams’ footsteps to five specific sites in which he created images that capture our beautiful landscape. Gain insight into working with light, texture, and zones right where Adams worked. Tour includes a handout that offers reference photographs and sources as well as a bibliography for those who want further insight into Ansel Adams, a multifaceted and visionary photographer.

CAR CARAVAN 2.5 hours

Audie Murphy: A Real/Reel Hero • Tour guides: Ross Schnioffsky and Warren Davey

Retrace actor and war hero Audie Murphy’s steps through the Alabama Hills on the tour that bears his name.

• Friday: 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

• Sunday: 9:45 a.m.-Noon • Screening: “Showdown,” 8 a.m.

Sunday in High School Auditorium Re-trace the steps of American war hero Audie Murphy as we take you to where he made three of his most interesting movies, “Hell Bent for Leather” (1960), “Posse from Hell” (1961) and “Showdown” (1963). Murphy was a better actor than he gave himself credit for and was involved in some production planning, such as location spotting. Warren Davey and Ross Schnioffsky will show you not only sites from the films but also where some of these movies’ most thrilling stunts were performed. The tour will incorporate some “Audie audio.” Join us as we saddle up with one of Lone Pine’s great ghost riders.

BUS 2.5 hours

Watch “Dynamite Pass” and then see where it was filmed.

Dynamite Pass: Remembering Tim Holt • Tour guide: Don Kelsen • Friday: 8 a.m.-10 a.m., 12:30 p.m2:30 p.m.

• Screening: 7 a.m.-8 a.m. Friday in High School Auditorium Tim Holt and the Mexican-Irish pal of his movie adventures, Richard Martin, do battle with an unscrupulous toll road operator in 1950’s “Dynamite Pass” where, E SEE page 22

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BUS: Buses contain 54 seats and leave from south parking lot of Museum.

WALKING: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

CAR CARAVAN: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

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SCRAWLS, SCRATCHES & SCRIBBLES

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TOURS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 this time the Alabama Hills stand in for New Mexico. The RKO stars hire out to protect the builders of a new road, where not only guns but charges of dynamite come into play. After a bus ride to Lone Pine’s back lot, this walking tour in the Alabama Hills is centralized in Pot-sa-ga-wa Garden and its surrounding areas where Tim and Chito have worked numerous times before.

BUS/WALKING 2 hours

caravan to tour the sacred grounds of the Lubken spread. There, we will search for the ghosts of cowboy heroes who made scenes here we have known practically all our lives: Gene Autry, Randolph Scott, Bob Steele, Tim Holt, Ken Maynard, Fred Humes, Gabby Hayes, Richard Arlen, Big Boy Williams, Bill Cody, Hoot Gibson, Tom Mix, Johnny Mack Brown, Tom Tyler – even “Bonanza” shot here! Some walking is required as we trace the footsteps of screen legends through this rare oasis of green in Lone Pine. Tour guide is author and film historian Richard W. Bann.

Come re-live magic movie moments, and make new memories too.

CAR CARAVAN 2.5 hours

Lone Pine’s Backlot The pastoral Lubken Ranch, also known as the “Bar 20” in movies.

Carey Grant in the Alabama Hills in a scene from “Gunga Din,” the largest production ever filmed in Lone Pine.

Hopalong Cassidy – Original Bar 20 Ranch

Tour guide: Richard W. Bann Friday: 1:30-4 p.m.

Saturday: 1:30-4 p.m.

Gunga Din Screening: 8:30-9:30 a.m. Friday in High Tour guide: Jude Greenburgh School Auditorium Friday: 9-11:30 a.m.

Lone Pine’s future looks brightest when Saturday: noon-2:30 p.m. honoring its storied past. So let’s jump on the Filmed here in the summer and fall of time machine and visit the still-working cattle 1938, “Gunga Din” remains to this day the ranch which served as the original “Bar 20” largest production ever filmed in the Lone in the first and best Hopalong Cassidy feature Pine area. The production company created film made in 1935. Come and see the historic huge sets, hired more than 1,000 extras and beautiful Lubken Ranch. Incredibly, the and built a tent city to house the cast and many Western film location books have all crew. It is recognized as one of the rare ignored it, because until 2011 its storied films of its era to stand up well to modern movie history was unknown – even at our sensitivities. Visit the site of the temple, the own festival. We begin in the Museum village of Tanta Pur, battle scene locations Theater with a video compilation of Western and see the location of the bridge crossed excerpts shot at this pastoral venue from by the elephants.

1926-49. Then we travel up into the BUS 2.5 hours splendors of Lone Pine scenery via car

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BUS: Buses contain 54 seats and leave from south parking lot of Museum.

WALKING: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

CAR CARAVAN: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

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Tour guides: Burt & Donna Yost Friday: 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Saturday: 8:30-11:30 a.m.

Sunday: 9 a.m.-noon Visit locations seldom seen by visitors. A must-tour for movie buffs. Visit the Tim Holt cabin for the first time ever, a ghost town, stagecoach stop, movie lake, old train and gas station, a rare Molly Stevens steamboat stop on Owens Lake and other locations still standing. Steve McQueen, Tim Holt, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and many others worked here. Hidden Lone Pine at its best.

CAR CARAVAN 3 hours

Lone Ranger

Tour guide: Charles Morfin Friday: 8:30-11:30 a.m.

Saturday: 1-4 p.m.

With the popularity of the Disney reboot of “The Lone Ranger,” our Masked Man has caught a younger generation’s imagination.

The Lone Ranger has been in the rocks here in Lone Pine since 1938 when Bill Witney and John English directed “The Lone Ranger” serial. On this tour you will visit sites where this action classic shot, then

TOURS move on to some of the locations for the Clayton Moore and John Hart Ranger we remember from early television. Finally, we travel out to where Disney shot scenes for the most recent incarnation. It takes a little longer to travel between the locations than to travel back in time, but it is well worth the adventure.

CAR CARAVAN 3 hours

North-South

Tour guide: Melody Holland-Ogburn Friday: 3:30-6 p.m.

Saturday: 12:30-3 p.m.

Sunday: 2:30-5 p.m.

Considered one of the most scenic drives, you’ll see A LOT of the Alabama Hills. The tour travels throughout the length of the Alabama Hills to famous filming locations of such movies as “Gunga Din,” “Westward Ho!” and “Wagons Westward.” You will visit famous locations on this combination of two original festival tours created by festival co-founder Dave Holland, and now led by his daughter, Melody. View the Hoppy Cabin where the Boyds honeymooned. Stand where Gene Autry, John Wayne and Tom Mix worked. Walk to the Lone Ranger ambush site then through the canyon to our famous Hoppy and Gene Autry rocks. View the “Rawhide” film location where two people played one part. See the actual cement anchors that held the “Gunga Din” bridge, and the monuments dedicated by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Roy Rogers. Grab your cameras and join us on this tour for your thorough introductory view or great refresher to all the filmmaking celebrated by our festival.

BUS 2.5 hours

Several Lone Pine Film Festival tours take attendees to famous movie locations via bus; others are walking tours or done by car caravan.

On this four-wheel drive tour of the Owens Valley, learn about the long water war between Inyo County and Los Angeles, and the history of the L.A. Aqueduct. See how the once-dry Lower Owens River has made a comeback and river wildlife is enjoying new and improved habitat. Four-wheel-drive vehicle is required. This will be a caravan to different areas around Lone Pine and down by the Owens River.

CAR CARAVAN 3 hours

Secrets of the Wastelands

Tour guide: Don Kelsen Saturday: 8-11 a.m.

Screening: 7 a.m. Saturday at High School Auditorium In this Hopalong Cassidy adventure inspired by the Shangri-La of “Lost Horizon,” the Bar 20 trio joins an archeological expedition in search of ancient Indian ruins.

Instead, they find a mysterious “lost city” Owens River populated by Chinese Americans! We will 1900 Water Wars screen the film at the high school then start Tour guide: Page Williams & Dorothy out on our own expedition in search of the Bonnefin locations where Paramount Pictures lensed Saturday: 7:30-10:30 a.m. this Western yarn. Our tour travels out to the

northern boundary of the beautiful Alabama Hills where we will explore the site of the archeological camp, then move to where the company staged the chases and gun battles, finally winding up where they shot the climactic fight at the Anchor Ranch.

BUS 3 hours

Sunrise Photo

Tour guide: Larry Maurice Saturday: 6-8:30 a.m.

Sunday: 6-8:30 a.m.

For nearly 20 years, Film Festival visitors have thrilled to the breathtaking beauty of the Eastern High Sierra “Sunrise Tour.” A photographer’s dream event, but so inspirational, everyone can enjoy this early morning spectacle. See why directors and cinematographers can’t get enough of the spectacular mornings in “The Range of Light.”

Watch the morning sun ignite the peak of Mt. Whitney and bring the Alabama Hills to life.

Share good fellowship with a spectacular light show, a continental breakfast, a little music, a little poetry and a start to your Film Festival day that will never be forgotten.

CAR CARAVAN 2.5 hours

TOURS KEY

BUS: Buses contain 54 seats and leave from south parking lot of Museum.

WALKING: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

CAR CARAVAN: Cars meet in south Museum parking lot – watch for signs. Note: Cost of tour is per person, not per car.

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MEET YOUR 2014 TOUR GUIDE Richard W. Bann

time attendees on at least one of her tours each weekend. “Every year brings great, new experiences through these movie location tours. I treasure seeing people meet to share with old friends. Others make new friends. And they’re all enjoying the area.

It’s a unique festival!”

Richard W. Bann is the host of Lone Pine’s Bar 20 Ranch Tour, a regular essayist for “Lone Pine in The Movies,” a major source for 16mm prints for the festival the last 20 years, a film historian and author (with books on Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, W.C. Fields, Hal Roach and John Wayne).

Bann started his career as a CPA testifying on behalf of William Boyd Enterprises with respect to Hopalong Cassidy films litigation and later was vice-president of Blackhawk Films, Inc. For the past 30 years, Bann has been library consultant to a European film and TV company, Kirch Media GmbH and related entities, where he spent $4 million restoring and preserving the Hal Roach Studios 35mm nitrate film collection. Bann’s knowledge of movies and Western heritage is always greatly appreciated in Lone Pine.

Dorothy Bonnefin

A former real-estate broker for 30 years, Bonnefin has lived in the Owens Valley for more than 70 years. In fact, she worked at the front desk of the Dow Hotel in the ’50s and ’60s when filming was at its peak, and remembers that “when one studio checked out, another checked in.” She even worked as an extra in movies and commercials. A true movie fan, Bonnefin has been involved in Lone Pine Film Festival since its inception, even serving as director for six years. She continues to dedicate herself to serving on the Film Museum and festival boards of directors and with the Friends of the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery.

Jerry Condit

An artist and photographer, Condit currently lives in the San Fernando Valley. After discovering Lone Pine and those fabulous Alabama Hills 20 years ago, the area has become very dear to his heart, as a second home and a favorite place to get lost, meditate and escape. He is passionate about Lone Pine’s movie history, especially the vintage years. Condit is currently rephotographing, from original camera positions, the many Alabama Hills locations that appeared on the silver screen.

Jude Greenburgh

Originally from Great Britain and now a resident of nearby Darwin, Judyth Greenburgh currently works in the Lone Pine Film History Museum’s art department. Greenburgh is an international art director and has worked on everything from global advertising to local non-profit causes. A born communicator, ­she brings her docent experience from being a trained guide at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and

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Ross Schnioffsky and Warren Davey

Tour guide and Lone Pine resident Dorothy Bonnefin on the set of 1953’s “King of the Khyber Rifles,” in which she had a small part.

her love of this landscape and how it inspires into being through the exhibits, the artwork and guided tours.

Debbie Kielb

Debbie Kielb has been a State and National Park interpreter and a tour guide for Park Concessions since 2003. She has volunteered her talents for the LPFF since 2007 simply because, “I’ve been a movie lover all my life.” Conveying an understanding of the history and helping the audience find a personal connection to these favorite films is her goal on the Anchor Ranch tour.

Don Kelsen

Tour guide Don Kelsen has been learning about the Alabama Hills and film locations since the first festival in 1990.

Inspiration for pin pointing filming locations comes from Kelsen’s association with Festival Co-founder Dave Holland and their work together on Holland’s first video, “On Location in Lone Pine.”

Catherine Kravitz

As the collections manager and docent of the Lone Pine Film History Museum, Catherine Kravitz, rarely gets to wander the Alabama Hills or even see the sun for that matter. When asked if she would like to create a tour of the different sites Ansel Adams visited and photographed, she jumped at the opportunity. Using her skills as a former researcher, she took 2.5 months and 25 books to gain background and insight into Ansel Adams. Coupled with her experience in the art world as an art gallery owner and her communications

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skills as a docent, she gets to do what she loves: talk about an amazing artist and share some beautiful locations linked to an outstanding artist.

Larry Maurice

Larry Maurice has spent the last 35 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. He is an exceptional after-dinner speaker and spends a great deal of time in schools around the country talking to children about the role the cowboy has played and continues to play in the development of the West. Maurice has been honored with the “Lifetime Achievement in Cowboy Poetry Award” from the prestigious National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas. A regular in Lone Pine since the festival’s beginning in 1990, Maurice has been providing guidance, support and friendship throughout the years.

Charles Morfin

A film historian, volunteer at the Lone Pine Museum of Film History and president of Film Noir Tours, Charles Morfin has appeared at various film festivals and enjoys restoring vintage cars. His passion for film history and love of memories traveling to Lone Pine as a kid, inspired him to author the newest book of the area, called “Filming Locations in the Alabama Hills,” which is available in the museum gift shop.

Melody Holland Ogburn

Joining us again, Ogburn is the daughter of Festival Co-founder Dave Holland.

Having led guests on bus tours as a step-on guide since the first year, she notes first-

The call of the Alabama Hills has lured Warren Davey and Ross Schnioffsky back to Lone Pine after an absence of a few years. They have been rootin’, tootin’ lounge-chair cowboys ever since Walt Disney dusted off Davy Crockett’s old coonskin cap. Schnioffsky and Davey live just west of Lone Pine in the little frontier town of Melbourne, Australia. TV Westerns arrived in Australia in 1956 and the pair has loved them ever since. Schnioffsky, who loves making little docos on cinema history, is a faculty librarian at La Trobe University, Melbourne and Davey, who loves reading about all things Western, is an elementary school librarian and both happily maintain disorganized lives.

Page Williams

Page Williams is a fifth-generation native Californian and part-time California historian and wildlife photographer.

She has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 44 years, first in the theater with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and then with the London Royal Ballet and New York Opera.

Williams has worked in Hollywood for the past 35 years. But as much as Williams loves Hollywood, her heart belongs to Lone Pine.

Burt and Donna Yost

Returning from a ski trip Columbus Day weekend 1990, Burt and Donna Yost discovered Lone Pine and as it happens, the Lone Pine Film Festival. Fans of old Westerns, Burt and Donna soon started making trips to Lone Pine and the Alabamas in search of their favorite movie locations. That led to a meeting with film Festival Co-founder Kerry Powell and Director Dave Holland, with whom they became fast friends. Since then, Burt and Donna have developed many additional friends in Lone Pine and have become well-versed in the Alabamas and Eastern Sierra landscape and respective movie locations. Their annual Festival tours are always a sell-out, especially the “Backlot” tour highlighted in this program. The Yosts call Santa Barbara home when not in Lone Pine.

Caretakers of the Hills

Group continues work with BLM to preserve and protect famous landscape

Photo by Charles James

Mike and DeEtte Johnston of Bishop (r) and other volunteers with the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group and Bureau of Land Management re-plant native vegetation in a damaged area of the Hills this past April.

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he Alabama Hills rise from the desert and provide a scenic backdrop for the community of Lone Pine. For thousands of years, the area has been continually used for subsistence, habitation and ceremonial purposes by the indigenous people known today as the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.

The Alabama Hills have inspired prominent photographers such as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and David Muench.

Nearly 100 years of film history (and the birth of the American Western genre) exists in the Alabama Hills from silent movies to stateof-the-art motion pictures such as “Gunga Din,” “How the West Was Won” and more recently “Ironman” and “Django Unchained.”

Promotional product and TV commercial film crews work there regularly. The Lone Pine Film History Museum, visited by thousands of people each year, contains extensive film history displays featuring the Alabama Hills.

Now, efforts to permanently preserve current commercial and recreational uses of the Alabama Hills – including filmmaking and movie site location hunting – are making headway on the national level.

Rep. Paul Cook (R-Apple Valley) has introduced legislation that, if approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, will establish the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area.

The designation would cover 18,610 acres of the Alabama Hills west of Lone Pine and guarantee that current recreational activities would be allowed to continue.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), meanwhile, continues to work on a proposal

to present to the Senate.

Both pieces of legislation come with the backing of a widespread coalition of stakeholders that includes residents, visitors, business owners and local, state and federal agencies. These various interests have been brought together over the past several years by the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group, a non-profit entity committed to preserving the unique landscape and respecting all users’ needs.

The AHSG has been partnering with the Bureau of Land Management over the last eight years to help direct the management of the Alabama Hills, which are currently classified as a Special Recreation Area. The goal is to make the Alabama Hills as accessible and activity-inclusive as possible, while still preserving the semi-primitive and scenic landscape. The AHSG, in association with the BLM, has been able to forge a strong, community-based partnership.

The organization aids, advises, monitors, informs and protects the Alabama Hills by assisting the BLM in its ongoing management of the area. The AHSG was recognized in 2008 with a “Cooperative Conservation Award” from the US Department of the Interior and in 2011 with a “Vision Award” by the Sierra Business Council.

“The AHSG is committed to protecting the jaw-dropping beauty of this area with continued access for hikers, motorists, photographers and rock climbers, while allowing important economic activities like commercial filming, cattle grazing, hunting/

fishing and outdoor recreation to continue,” a spokesperson said. “Balancing all these needs is what makes the Alabama Hills so special to so many people and necessitates its protection.”

The organization also works to restore areas that have been overused or degraded.

Unfortunately, some areas have seen significant damage to the brush and landscape tracked over by motor vehicles and irresponsible use. In these areas, you will see re-plantings of native vegetation; restoration work and boundaries installed. All visitors are asked to not camp in these areas so that a natural recovery process can begin.

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on Cook’s bill in late 2014 or early 2015. More than 40 different user groups are expected to benefit from the campaign to preserve and protect the Alabama Hills with an effective and long-term management plan complemented by supporting funds for the proper ongoing management of the area. The National Scenic Area designation will bring increased protections for the landscape as well as visibility to the area, thus maintaining and growing the local economy.

The AHSG invites everyone to support their mission through donations, membership, and/or participation in projects and events. Meetings of the AHSG are publically announced and open to anyone who wishes to attend. The AHSG uses a consensus building process, with all participants at the meetings encouraged to

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Bureau of Land Management State Director Jim Kenna (l) and Alabama Hills Stewardship Group Vice President Kevin Mazzu at the Third Annual Alabama Hills Day in April 2014.

With the BLM’s help, the AHSG works to promote the protection and preservation of the Hills as a semi-primitive, multi-use recreational wonderland. provide constructive input. In addition, field trips are conducted to acquaint everyone interested in proposed actions and field projects.

For more information or to be placed on the newsletter list, contact AHSG, Inc. President Chris Langley at (760) 937-1189; by email at lonepinemovies@aol.com, or on the web: alabamahillsstewardshipgroup.org “Every film buff and movie tourist loves the Alabama Hills, and it takes all of us to responsibly manage this amazing landscape,” the spokesperson said.

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Stars fall on Lone Pine

Celebrity guests highlight 25th Anniversary Film Festival

Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce Boxleitner is noted for his television starring roles in “How the West Was Won,” “Scarecrow and Mrs. King,” “and “Babylon 5.”

His diverse talents are demonstrated in two sci-fi novels with Western settings that he wrote: “Frontier Earth” and “Searcher.”

He worked as a model for Estee Lauder For Men in addition to having several film appearances, including “Gods and Generals,” “Dead Space: Downfall,” “Snakehead Terror,” “The Legion of the Dead,” “Tron” and “Tron Legacy.”

Other television appearances for Mr. Boxleitner include “Hawaii Five-O,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Chuck” and “Heroes.”

This will be Mr. Boxleitner’s third appearance at the Film Festival.

Cheryl Rogers-Barnett

Cheryl Rogers-Barnett is the adopted daughter of Roy Rogers and his first wife, Arline, who died of complications following childbirth when Cheryl was 6 years old. While on a personal appearance tour in Texas, Roy stopped off in Dallas and visited the babies at Hope Cottage. As Roy told it, all the babies in the nursery would cry whenever he leaned over their cribs and tickled them under the chin. All, that is, except Cheryl, who grasped his finger, smiled and cooed. He said it was love at first sight and he couldn’t wait to take her home to Arline. A year following Arline’s death, Roy married his co-star Dale Evans on New Year’s Eve of 1947 and, as they

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say, the rest is history. Cheryl’s acting career was extremely brief.

As a child she was introduced in the film feature “Meet Roy Rogers,” and she had a line in “Trail of Robin Hood” and in the “Outlaws of Paradise Valley” episode of the Roy Rogers TV Show. Cheryl has authored “Cowboy Princess” and “The All American Cowboy Grill.”

She is currently on the Advisory Board of the Western Music Association and is included in the History Channel project, “When Cowboys Were King.” Cheryl and her husband, Larry, live in Washington, Utah. They have seven grown children and 14 grandchildren.

Larry Maurice

Larry Maurice is Lone Pine’s favorite Cowboy Poet and Master of Ceremonies. Not only has Maurice been a familiar, friendly face and voice at the Lone Pine Film Festival for many years, but he has spent the last 20 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. Over the last few years, he has had to juggle his need to be on horseback with his busy entertainment schedule. Maurice is a sought-after entertainer, not only for his cowboy poetry that speaks from the heart of the day-to-day cowboy, but also for his ability to breathe life into the history of the American West. From the Thursday Night Museum Gala, to the closing campfire in the park on Sunday, Maurice will keep things moving along with aplomb and good humor. His participation in the festival is underwritten by the Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Craig Barron

Craig Barron is an AcademyAward winning visual effects supervisor who is also a filmmaker, entrepreneur and film historian.

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Barron has been an innovator in the cinematic technique of creating illusions for the past two decades and has contributed to the visual effects on more than 100 films. He was co-founder and head of the visual-effects company, Matte World Digital, and is a member of the Academy Board of Governors, representing the visual effects branch.

he received excellent reviews, and more than 60 episodes of shows as varied as “The Loretta Young Show,” “Climax,” “Have Gun, Will Travel” and “Sheriff of Cochise.” It was an episode of the Zane Grey Theater titled “The Sharpshooter” in which he first played the role that would take him to stardom as the son of Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Conners. In 1959, Johnny was nominated for an Emmy for his work in “The Rifleman,” the same year his brother Bobby was nominated for acting in “Playhouse 90.” That same year, their father was nominated for editing the The Bob Cummings Show. While still working on the series, Johnny embarked on a successful recording career that resulted in five Top 40 chart hits over the next few years. Since the series ended Johnny has continued his career as an actor, while performing as a singer and in recent years the leader of a very popular dance band.

Ben Burtt

Sound editor Ben Burtt has played a crucial role in creating the magical ambiance of George Lucas’ classic sci-fi fantasy adventure series Star Wars and Indiana Jones; it was he who created the “voices” for R2D2, Chewbacca and E.T. In addition to his brilliant work with Lucas, Burtt has also worked on numerous other fantasy films during the ’70s and ’80s.

Johnny Crawford

Although remembered today primarily for his role as Mark McCain in the very popular TV series “The Rifleman,” Crawford has had a long and varied career as an actor, singer and popular band leader. He began as one of Walt Disney’s 24 original Mousketeers in 1955. He subsequently appeared in the Lux Video Theatre episode titled “Little Boy Lost,” for which

Sylvia Durando

Sylvia got her start in the business in 1949, when her mother, who worked with Hollywood studios locating horses for various productions, helped land her daughter a part as a male sulky driver in the motion picture “The Great Dan Patch” (1949). The legendary stuntwoman Audrey Scott, who was to become a mentor to Sylvia, performed the main stunt work. Sylvia graduated high school in 1952 and married in 1953, using her surname (Martinez) for the remainder of her film career, which consisted of doing stunt work and doubling in movies for more than 30 years. Hollywood does not allow both to be done today. Some of the feature films that Sylvia worked in were “Jailhouse Rock”(1957) with Elvis Presley, “The Big Circus” (1959) with Victor Mature, “One Eyed Jacks” (1961) with Marlon Brando, “Taras Bulba” (1962) with Tony

Curtis and Yul Brynner and “Kitten with a Whip” (1964) with Ann Margret and John Forsythe, among others. One of her fondest memories was working as the stunt woman and double for leading lady Nancy Gates in Randolph Scott’s “Comanche Station” (1960), directed by Budd Boetticher in Lone Pine. Sylvia has two children, five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren and lives in Three Rivers.

Diamond Farnsworth

Diamond Farnsworth is an accomplished stuntman, serving as stunt coordinator on the show “NCIS,” and before that working on “JAG” and “Quantum Leap.” He is the son of Academy Award-winning actor/stuntman Richard Farnsworth, who was also a onetime guest of the Festival. Diamond began his stunt career in 1968 and has been serving as a stunt coordinator since 1980. He began with “Paint Your Wagon” and served as a stunt double for Sylvester Stallone in “First Blood,” “Rambo” and “Rhinestone.” He has also doubled Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid and Jeff Bridges. On the big screen, he’s been stunt coordinator for such major motion pictures as “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (1985), “The Big Easy” (1986), “No Way Out” (1987) and “The Dead Pool” (1988). He has loaned a pair of chaps to the museum, which belonged to Ken Maynard and were given to his father Richard by the famous western star.

Ed Faulkner

The very first time Ed Faulkner went on location was to Lone Pine for a “Have Gun, Will Travel” episode called “The Road to Wickenburg.” One of our favorite “bad guys” who is really a good guy, Ed has worked with John Wayne in six films, including “The Green Berets,” “The

contribution to the Western film genre.

Undefeated,” “Chisum” and “Rio Lobo,” and to participate in the John Wayne tours. He has numerous television credits, including several Western series, some of which brought him to Lone Pine on location, including “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “Laramie,” “Iron Horse” and “The Virginian.” We are very happy to have him back in Lone Pine for our 25th Anniversary.

Loren Janes

Loren Janes again joins us to share his experiences and insights concerning stunt work as well as his experiences filming “How the West Was Won” in the Alabama Hills. Loren worked with Steve McQueen as his stunt double on “Nevada Smith,” also filmed locally.

Janes has attended every Festival and serves an active role as a board member for the Lone Pine Film History Museum. He ranks alongside Dar Robinson, Hal Needham and Yakima Canutt for his contributions to movie stunt work. Janes has lent his athletic skills to many amazing stunt sequences in more than 130 feature films, and has doubled for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson and even Debbie Reynolds in a career spanning nearly half a century. He has contributed his talents to such spectacular films as “The Ten Commandments” (1956), “Spartacus” (1960), “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), “Planet of the Apes” (1968), “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984).

Ruggedly handsome, Janes has also had minor acting roles in more than a dozen Hollywood feature films. In 2001, well known Western actor and fellow 2013 Festival guest L.Q. Jones presented Janes with the Golden Boot Award for his lifetime

Wyatt McCrea

Wyatt McCrea was born in Los Angeles as part of the fifth generation of a California family.

His grandfather was Joel McCrea, famous as a cowboy star from the second half of the handsome actor’s career when he made many classic Westerns. Joel made “Cattle Empire” in Lone Pine and “Cattle Drive” in Death Valley. Wyatt’s grandmother was Frances Dee, a striking leading lady who made more than 40 films before deciding to focus on family and raising her and Joel’s three sons. Wyatt McCrea spent the bulk of his professional career in real estate and financial services, in addition to preserving the history of his filmmaking family.

McCrea is an associate board member for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and a member of both the Rodeo Historical Society and American Quarter Horse Association, among many other professional and Western responsibilities.

Donna Martell

Donna Martell, initially using a screen name of Donna De Mario, began her Hollywood career around 1947, with her first major role as the ingenue in “Apache Rose” (1947) starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Other Western film credits include “Hills of Utah” and “Twilight on the Rio Grande” with Gene Autry, “Ten Wanted Men” with Randolph Scott, “Last of the Desperadoes” with James Craig and “Robin Hood of Monterey” with Gilbert Roland (as the Cisco Kid).

During the late 1940s to early 1950s, she appeared in a variety of female leads, supporting roles and bits – she was at Monogram with

Johnny Sheffield in “Bomba,” the Jungle Boy flick; with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in a couple of their later comedies; with Western singer/musician Tex Williams at Universal; at 20th Century Fox as the sister to Jennifer Jones in the big budget “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” (1955); and as the female lead in the low budget sci-fi “Project Moonbase” (1953), which shot scenes in Death Valley.

Donna had small roles in Kim, The Golden Hawk and The Egyptian, which shot scenes in Death Valley.

Some television credits include “Bonanza,” “Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Cheyenne,” “Bat Masterson,” “The Range Rider” and “77 Sunset Strip.” Donna was married to baseball player Gene Corso. In later years, she has done a variety of TV commercials.

Dawn Moore

Dawn Moore’s personal and public personae have followed a path less traveled. Successfully navigating 35-plus years in luxury retail honed her eye for intriguing design whether found in the sparkle of a diamond drop, the curve of an 18th century rococo console or a 1940s hand-tooled leather Bohlin gun belt. Moore began her career in the highfashion arena of luxury retail and enjoyed stints as Regional U.S. Sales Director at the legendary Harry Winston and Mikimoto before launching into interior design, marketing and e-commerce. As an expert in her field, she has appeared on E!, “Entertainment Tonight,” CBS News, “EXTRA” and Access Hollywood and has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Business Journal, WWD, Angeleno, L.A. Confidential, National Jeweler and GIA’s “The Loupe.” She has also written articles on interior design, lifestyle and jewelry trends for The Huffington Post, C, Distinction, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs Life, Beverly Hills Courier and GIA on-line. Her No. 1 job as Torch Bearer for her father Clayton Moore’s legacy as the iconic western hero The Lone Ranger takes pride of place.

David Rothel

Author David Rothel’s lifelong fascination with show business began with frequent visits to the three movie theatres in Elyria, Ohio, where he was intrigued and inspired by what he saw on the silver screen. He has since gone from youthful observer to published authority on various aspects of popular entertainment, all of which is reflected in his 13 books on show business history, including “Opened Time Capsules: My Vintage Conversations with Show Business Personalities,” “The Singing Cowboys,” “The Great Show Business Animals” and his latest, “The Case Files of the Oriental Sleuths: Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, and Mr. Wong,” Rothel’s fascination with the Western film genre led him to research and write books on many of the leading stars of those films. He had the opportunity to personally interview Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and other leading and supporting players for his books.

His book on Western film locations, “An Ambush of Ghosts: a Personal Guide to Favorite Western Film Locations,” was twice featured in Leonard Maltin segments on “Entertainment Tonight.” In March of 2012 David Rothel received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Williamsburg Film Festival “for His Dedication and Outstanding Contributions in Honoring the Golden Age of Hollywood.” Rothel and his wife Nancy live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Dahlonega, Ga.

Dean Smith

To the general public, Dean Smith’s name remains little-known because he spent most of his life serving as a stunt double for actors (and occasionally actresses) to maintain the illusion that they were the ones falling from horses and leaping off buildings. Smith jokes, “I began my career and I ended my career working in Lone Pine. I began with my first job away from Hollywood on location in Lone Pine as a stunt man on ‘The Law and Jake Wade’ in 1958, and ended it working as a stunt man on ‘Maverick,’ in 1994.” In

between the two films, Smith worked on “How the West Was Won” (1962), “The Birds” (1963), “McClintock!” (1963), “El Dorado” (1966), “True Grit” (1969), “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid” (1969), “Big Jake” (1971), “The Sting” (1973), “Sugarland Express” (1974), “The Towering Inferno” (1974), “Christine” (1983) and “Raw Deal” (1986). At the height of the TV Western boom, his credits included “Maverick,” “Gunsmoke,” “Iron Horse,” “Virginian,” “Bat Masterson,” “Outcasts,” “The F.B.I.,” “Tall Man,” “Have Gun Will Travel,” “Riverboat,” “Ironside,” “Zorro,” “Texas John Slaughter,” “Cimarron City,” “Wagon Train,” “Laramie,” “Lawman” and dozens of others.

Now, at 81, Smith may finally be getting his turn as the star attraction with the publication of his memoir “Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen,” written with Mike Cox of Austin, Texas.

Peggy Stewart

One of the major leading ladies from the heyday of the B-Western and serials, Peggy Stewart has been one of the staunchest supporters of both the Film Festival and the Lone Pine Film History Museum, where she serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Having worked with almost all of the B-Western stars of the 1940s and 1950s, it is two films she made in Lone Pine with two of the leading singing cowboys that cement her place in Lone Pine film history. One is “Trail to San Antone,” a Gene Autry film featured in one of the prominent exhibits in the museum. The other is “Utah,” a Roy Rogers film where she is featured along with Dale Evans.

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SCREENINGS

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ome of the very best Westerns ever made and an epic adventure film will join three critically acclaimed documentaries on the schedule at this year’s Lone Pine Film Festival.

It’s the festival’s Silver Anniversary, and organizers have pulled together a sterling lineup of films – movies to capture our hearts and minds, leave us on the edge of our seats, make us laugh and think, and above all, remind us why we love cinema so much in the first place and why there’s no better place to appreciate it than Lone Pine, Calif.

Dynamite Pass Starring: Tim Holt, Lynne Roberts Date: Friday, October 10 Time: 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

Note: This is a partial list. See the full screenings Guide, available at the ticket office.

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Bad Day at Black Rock Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan Date: Friday, October 10 Time: 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Location: Museum Theater

Bar 20 Starring: William Boyd Date: Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

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Comanche Station

Gunga Din

Secrets of the Wasteland

Starring: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates Date: Friday, October 10 Time: 3 p.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Starring: William Boyd, Date: Friday, October 10 Barbara Britton Time: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Date: Saturday, October 11 Location: High School Auditorium Time: 7 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

Far from the West

Macahans

Showdown

SPECIAL SCREENING Starring: Paulo Tardin Date: Saturday, October 11 Time: 7 p.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

Starring: James Arness, Eva Marie Saint and Bruce Boxleitner Date: Saturday, October 11 Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

Starring: Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley and Charles Drake Date: Sunday, October 12 Time: 8 a.m.

Location: High School Auditorium

Brotherhood of the Popcorn Director: Inda Reid Date: Saturday, October 11 Time: 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Location: Museum Theater

One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct SPECIAL SCREENING Date: Sunday, October 12 Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Location: Museum Theater

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Six Degrees of the Lone Pine Film Festival

Connecting Stars of This Year’s Films to the Stars of Hollywood’s Newest Releases

Now try your own...

Spencer Tracy from “Bad Day at Black Rock”

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Films of Inyo County

Eight decades of movies and television shows filmed on location in Inyo County Movies in which the scenery of Inyo County has had a starring role or even bit part over the past nine decades.

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Water, Water Everywhere Round Up, The Cupid the Cowpuncher Pollyanna Cameraman, The

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For Those We Love Sting of the Lash

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Man Who Won, The Virginian, The Grail, The Brass Commandments Man In the Raw

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Mine with the Iron Door, The Sunset Trail, The Fighting Fury Man From Wyoming Back Trail, The Daring Chances Ridin’ Kid from Powder River, The

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Greed White Outlaw Sporting West Durand of the Badlands Gold Trap, The Red Rider, The Red Blood and Blue Riders of the Purple Sage White Thunder Bad Lands Whistling Jim Riders of the Pass Riders of the Sand Storm Taking Chances Golden Princess, The Rider of the Law Riding Romance Senor Daredevil Flying Horseman, The Demon, The Wild Horse Stampede Six Shootin’ Romance Enchanted Hill, The The Ridin’ Rascal Stolen Ranch, The ChasingTrouble Salt Lake Trail, The

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The Western Rover Brute, The Gun Gospel Horse Trader, The Splitting the Breeze Western Rover Border Cavalier, The Ranger of the North Hey! Hey! Cowboy Swiss Movements Shootin’ Irons Blazing Days Black Midnight Rambling Ranger, The Black Jack Rough and Ready Square Shooter, The Somewhere In Sonora

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Just Tony

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Silent Riders, The Arizona Cyclone Hot News Clean-Up Man, The Thunder Riders Clearing the Trail Girl-Shy Cowboy

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Points West The Wagon Master Wagon Master, The

1930

Song of the West Spurs Bad Man, The One Mad Kiss Trailin’ Trouble Fighting Legion, The Pardon My Gun

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Fair Warning Woman Hungry Freighters of Destiny

1932

Beyond the Rockies Fiddlin’ Buckaroo, The Flaming Guns Hidden Valley Red Shadow, The Hell Fire Austin Life in the Raw

1933

Terror Trail Thundering Herd, The Somewhere In Sonora

1934

Blue Steel Wheels of Destiny Cowboy Holiday Man From Utah, The Frontier Days Demon For Trouble, A

1935

Bar 20 Rides Again Hop-A-Long Cassidy (Enters)

Between Men Danger Trials Moonlight on the Prairie Lives of a Bengal Lancer Oil for the Lamps of China Roaring West, The Man’s Country Courageous Avenger Lawless Range New Frontier, The Lawless Riders Wanderer of the Westland Westward Ho Western Frontier

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Oregon Trail, The Rip Roarin’ Buckaroo Oh Susanna!

Phantom of the Ranger Everyman’s Law West of Nevada Woman Trap King of Pecos Three On The Trail Cattle Thief, The Lucky Terror, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Rhythm on the Range Comin’ Round the Mountain Smokey Smith

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Gunsmoke Ranch Wild Horse Rodeo Riders of the Dawn Western Gold Boots and Saddles Hop along Rides Again Long Long Trailer, The Lost Horizon Outlaw of the Orient Mighty Treve, The Hollywood Cowboy Firefly, The I Cover the War Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm Secret Valley Sandflow Star Is Born, A

1938

Lone Ranger, The Under Western Stars Heart of Arizona Old Barn Dance, The Cowboy and the Lady, The Pride of the West Where the Buffalo Roam Storm Over Bengal Adventures of Marco Polo Army Girl

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In Old Monterey Gunga Din Llano Kid, The

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Across the Plains Frontier Marshal Riders of the Frontier Range War Law of the Pampas Renegade Trail

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Melody Ranch Knights of the Range Three Men from Texas Light of Western Stars, The Trail of the Vigilantes Gay Caballero, The Three Faces West Cisco Kid and the Lady, The Wagons Westward Hi Yo Silver Round Up, The Brigham Young Fronitersman Saga of Death Valley

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Wide Open Town Last of the Duanes, The Border Vigilantes Down Mexico Way Men of the Timberline Wide Open Town In Old Colorado Secrets of the Wasteland Pirates On Horseback High Sierra Outlaws of the Desert Riders of the Purple Sage

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Perils of Nyoka Dudes Are Pretty People Ski Whiz (short film) Tombstone, The Town Too Tough To Die Sundown Jim Saboteur Lone Star Ranger

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Leather Burners Daredevils of the West Hands Across the Border Around the World Bar 20 False Colors Colt Comrades Song of Texas Tarzan’s Desert Mystery Man from Music Mountain, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Riders of the Deadline

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Barbary Coast Gent Nevada

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West of the Pecos Utah Salome Where She Danced Wanderer of the Wasteland Jungle Raiders

1946

Plainsman and the Lady, The Sunset Pass Devil’s Playground, The Trail To San Antone

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Thunder Mountain Wild Horse Mesa Code of the West Dangerous Venture Silent Conflict Unexpected Guest Tycoon Brick Bradford Jack Armstrong

1948

Untamed Breed Western Heritage Dead Don’t Dream, The Mystery Man Guns of Hate Sinister Journey Loves of Carmen, The Strange Gamble Arizona Ranger Panhandle Borrowed Trouble Three Godfathers, The False Paradise Bruce Gentry Indian Agent Yellow Sky Gun Smugglers

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Doolins of Oklahoma, The Samson and Delilah Sand Mysterious Desperado, The Stagecoach Kid, The Loaded Pistols Walking Hills, The Bagdad

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Dynamite Pass Mule Train Blazing Sun, The Border Treasure Kim Rider from Tucson Gunfighter, The Beyond the Purple Hills Under Mexicali Stars Cow Town Nevadan, The Desert Hawk, The Broken Arrow (last shot)

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Texans Never Cry

Rawhide Along the Great Divide Stage to Tucson Man in the Saddle

1952

Flame of Araby Desert Pursuit Tarzan’s Savage Fury Hangman’s Knot Springfield Rifle Valley of Fire

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New Age, The

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1995

Hallelujah Trail, The Great Race, The War Party

1966

Nevada Smith Eye For An Eye, An (aka Talion)

1967

Star Trek VII (Generations) Wild Bill, Hollywood Maverick (doc.)

Digital Man Taming Power of the Small

1997

Violent Ones, The Waterhole No. 3

Last Posse, The Desert Legion Stranger Wore A Gun, The King of the Khyber Rifles Hitchhiker, The Born to the Saddle Goldtown Ghost Riders

Crossworlds Trial and Error G.I. Jane

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1998

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1973

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Violent Men, The

1955

Bad Day at Black Rock Adventures of Hajji Baba I Died a Thousand Times Return of Jack Slade, The Prince of Players

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Around the World in 80 Days Seven Men From Now Rawhide Years, The Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado

1957

Hired Gun, The Tall T, The Monolith Monsters The Gunfire at Indian Gap Lonely Man, The

1958

Violent Road, The From Hell to Texas Cattle Empire Law and Jake Wade Money Women and Guns

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Ride Lonesome Thunder in the Sun

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Comanche Station Showdown North to Alaska Hell Bent for Leather

1961

Master of the World Posse From Hell

1962

How the West Was

Bamboo Saucer, The

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Zabriskie Point

1972

Timegate Joe Kidd Bridger Jonathan Livingston Seagull Mrs. Sundance (1973 Fox TV Movie)

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Farewell to Manzanar

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And I Alone Survived

1982

Great Chess Movie, The (Jouer Sa Vie)

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Savage Dawn

1985 Perfect

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Star Trek V- (The Final Frontier) Homer and Eddie Tremors Caged Fury Death Falls

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Crash and Burn

1991

Dark Rider Republic Pictures Story (doc.)

Sweet Poison Letters from the Moab

1992

Chaplin Kalifornia

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Army of One, An

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Replikator Maverick Shadow, The Terminal Velocity Autry AMC Special (doc.)

Bicyclist, The

Postman, The Slow Burn Prospector, The Sand Trap Phantasm 4 aka Oblivion

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Gone in 60 Seconds Running On The Sun Adventures in Wild California (in IMAX) Gladiator Highway 395 Dinosaur

2001

Infinite Shades of Gray Rat Race Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (doc.)

2002

Good Bye, Guy Guy Bounty Last Place on Earth, The

2003

Coral Reef Adventure Little Eden

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5 Million Footsteps Stand Up for Justice Counting Sheep Resurrection

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Electroma What I Did For Love

2008

Iron Man

2009

Transformers 2 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2011

Eye of the Devil

2012

The Starvation Proclamation Django Unchained

2013

The Lone Ranger Man of Steel G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Source: imbd.com)

Museum publishes two new books in time for ’14 Festival Anniversary issue of ‘Lone Pine in Movies,’ Tim Holt bio hit the shelves

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he Lone Pine Film History Museum’s publishing arm, which has been working with Western film historians and writers since 2007 to publish select titles in the genre, has released two new ventures just in time for the 2014 event.

“Lone Pine in The Movies: Celebrating 25 Years,” was Oct. 1, to coincide with the upcoming Lone Pine Film Festival’s Silver Anniversary.

Like its predecessors, “Lone Pine in the Movies – Lone Pine Film Festival 25th Anniversary” issue examines vintage films made in and around the sleepy little town of Lone Pine – a village nestled among the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and in the shadow of Mount Whitney. This allWesterns issue features a handful of in-depth articles, all profusely illustrated with portraits, scene stills and poster reproductions from the horse operas under discussion.

Ed Hulse, editor of the magazine and long-time friend of Lone Pine, reminisces about the origins of the Lone Pine Film Festival 25 years ago. Author David Rothel provides an overview of Tim Holt’s illustrious career and the many films he made in Lone Pine. Tim Holt followed in the footsteps of his famous father Jack by working predominantly in Westerns – but, unlike Jack, he was a frequent visitor to Lone Pine. “Bad Day at Black Rock,” one of the

finest motion pictures of the 1950s, is a unique title in Lone Pine’s filmography.

Practically all of it was shot here because MGM took the unusual step of eschewing backlot production and built the entire town of Black Rock just a mile north of Lone Pine.

Rex Wainscott presents a detailed, behindthe-scenes look at the making of this classic.

“The Duke of Lone Pine,” by Ed Hulse

will be particularly useful to would-be collectors interested in acquiring these favorites. Ed also revisits such memorable films as “Kim,” “Gunga Din,” “Storm Over Bengal,” “King of the Khyber Rifles,” “Lives of a Bengal Lancer” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and how the Alabama Hills stood in for rugged parts of what are now known as the countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Veteran Los Angeles Times shutterbug Don Kelsen, an early supporter of Lone Pine’s efforts to recognize and celebrate its role in movie history, presents an extensive photo essay documenting the history of our annual Film Festival. Don’s pictures bring back fond memories of the many actors, writers and directors who worked here and returned to the area to help us honor the area’s cinematic heritage.

The museum’s publishing group has specifically been working on the “Lone Pine in the Movies” series since 2006. Each edition complements the annual Lone Pine

Cowboy up for church Film Festival tradition finds fans enjoying fellowship at Anchor Ranch

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etired Pastor Ben Sparks returns in 2014 to again deliver the sermon for the popular Sunday morning Cowboy Church service.

Scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 12 at the historic Anchor Ranch, Cowboy Church has been become as much as tradition of the Lone Pine Film Festival as the tours.

With congregants gathered at the former site of many Hopalong Cassidy movies and countless other classic films, Pastor Sparks’ personalized, Western sermons take on a very special meaning in what’s been described as an amphitheater-like setting under the Eastern Sierra and Mount Whitney.

Retired Pastor Ben Sparks served the Lone Pine community for more than 30 years.

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Truly, it is an exceptional morning for those who want to begin their final day at the Lone Pine Film Festival with spiritual respite and fellowship.

Those attending will be picked up promptly at 8:15 at the Lone Pine Airport, about a half-mile south of the Film Museum on the east side of U.S. Highway 395.

Film Festival with articles and features on past and present films, stars and directors.

These all contribute to the museum’s film heritage preservation work.

Last year, the group acquired the rights to several books by Western film historian David Rothel. The first was “Who Was That Masked Man? The Story of the Lone Ranger;” the second, “Those Great Western Sidekicks.” Coinciding with this year’s Anniversary Festival, the museum will release “Tim Holt.”

The book is a compilation of just about everything fans ever wanted to know about the Western film star. A comprehensive compendium of questions and answers that include many little-known facts about this well-known Hollywood actor, “Tim Holt” also includes a forward by Burt Kennedy, the Western film writer/director and Holt’s longtime friend, as well as in-depth interviews with his family and coworkers. Fascinating interviews with longtime co-star Richard Martin and Nan Leslie, Holt’s most frequent leading lady, shed light on the star’s behindthe-scenes persona, what it was like shooting on location with him and the laughs and the mishaps that all were a part of making the B-Westerns from the 1930s through to the end in the 1950s.

Other Western titles published through the Lone Pine Film History Museum include “Hopalong Cassidy: On the Page, On the Screen,” “Filming the West of Zane Grey” and “30 Years on the Road with Gene Autry.”

These books and other publications are available in the museum store and online at www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org/books.

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“Star Trek V (The Final Frontier)” (1989) and “Star Trek VII (Generations)” (1995) Minnie Driver in “Slow Burn” William Witney In 1944, they teamed up for “Cowboy and the Senorita” “The Round Up” starring Fatty Arbuckle Debbie Reynolds 18, in 1927 (other years ranged from 17 to zero) “Chaplin” (1992) and “Iron Man” (2008) 1966 Independence “Ride Lonesome” 20 24

14. Roy Rogers 15. 1997, when he was head of Republic Studios 16. Iron Eyes Cody 17. “Wings” (1927) 18. Walter Van Tilburg Clark 19. “Kalifornia” 20. “G.I. Jane” (1997), “G.I. Joe Rise of the Cobra” (2009) and “G.I. Joe Retaliation” (2013) 21. “Hi-Yo Silver!”

22. Ida Lupino 23. John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. 24. “Marked Men” 25. “The Blazing Sun” (1950) 26. Quentin Tarantino 27. “Trial and Error” 28. “3:10 to Yuma” in 2007 29. “Gunga Din” in the late 1930s 30. 1960’s “Comanche Station”

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Silver Anniversary Celebration

Collectibles, memorabilia and event souvenirs available at The Building and Spainhower Park in downtown Lone Pine

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wide range of vendors will be at The Building and Spainhower Park with, as always, unique memorabilia, popular crafts, jewelry, clothing, and a broad selection of art. Of course, several of the stars appearing at the 2014 Lone Pine Film Festival will also be available at The Building to sign autographs, sell their books and autographed photos, and visit with grateful festival-goers. The Museum will host a table selling this year’s Anniversary Festival T-Shirts, belt buckles, books, collectibles, DVDs, CDs and gift items from the Museum Store collection.

This is the second year the Festival has been able to utilize the spacious, centrally-located accommodations afforded by The Building, which opened in December 2012.

Many will remember the property, an old building that had been vacant and/or under

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Photo by Darcy Ellis

Vendors will have a wide array of memorabilia from popular Western stars and movies for sale at both The Building and Spainhower Park.

construction for much of the past 20 years. Dave Haas, a longtime local resident who died last year, purchased the building in 2012 wanting to “eliminate blight from Main Street and provide a service

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to the community.” It certainly has. The building is now owned

by Inyo Properties and the new owner expects to continue to expand the options for the property.

What: Movie memorabilia, souvenirs, celebrity guests, DVDs, hard-to-find collectibles, books, authors, film fanatics and movie buffs Where: The Building, aka the Lone Pine Community Center, at the corner of U.S. Highway 395 and Tim Holt Street and Spainhower Park (formerly Lone Pine Park), at the north end of town.

When: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11 and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12.

Why: If you have to ask, you’re in the wrong place.

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COLLAGE OF COVERS: 1990-2013

Themes of Festivals Past 1991: Sierra Film Festival Tribute to Hopalong Cassidy 1993: A Tribute to John Wayne 1994: 50th Anniversary of Robert Michum’s 1st Starring Picture 1995: A Salute to America’s Favorite Cowboy

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1996: Movies Shot in Lone Pine 1997: Salute to Republic Pictures 1998: Salute to William A. Wellman 1999: 10th Anniversary of the Film Festival 2000: Lone Pine Film Festival 2001: Lone Pine Film Festival

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2002: Lone Pine Film Festival 2003: Women of the Westerns 2004: Back To The Classics 2005: Cowboy Heroes and Their Horses 2006: Return of the Badmen 2007: Singing Cowboys 2008: Lone Pine Film Festival 2009: Film Festival 20th

anniversary 2010: 75th Anniversary of Republic Films Trail to Lone Pine 2011: Lights Camera Action 2012: 100 Years Celebrate The Centennials 2013: Where the Real West Becomes the Reel West

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he Lone Pine Film History Museum and The Lone Pine Film Festival are committed to preserving the heritage of the American Western film and the spirit of the American cowboy.

Our efforts would not be possible without the tremendous support of our sponsors, friends and the community.

Thank you to all for your support through 25th years.

Beverly Rogers Jim Rogers – In Memorium Best Western Frontier Motel Comfort Inn Coso Geothermal Dow Villa Hotel & Motel Gardner’s True Value Hardware Lone Pine Propane Alex Printing Boulder Creek RV Resort Coca Cola El Dorado Savings Bank Inyo Mono Auto Body Lone Pine Drug Lone Pine Rocks & Gifts Lone Pine TV Sierra Storage Lone Pine Pizza Factory Erick Schat’s Bakkery Seasons Restaurant Sierra Reader

AltaOne Federal Credit Union California Writer’s Exchange Linda and Diamond Farnsworth Crystal Geyser Gillespie Distributing High Sierra Distributing Inyo Council for the Arts Inyo Mono Title Company Fendon’s Furniture Joseph’s Bi-Rite Markets Lone Pine TV McDonald’s Merry Go Round Restaurant Mt. Whitney Restaurant Kerry Powell Martin Powell KIBS/KBOV Rio Tinto Minerals Sierra Wave Media Totem Cafe Xanterra Corporation Lisa and Wyatt McCrea

Alabama Hills Cafe Bishop Veterinary Design’s Unlimited Eastern Sierra Wholesalers Frosty Chalet Lee’s Frontier Gas & Deli Lone Pine Budget Inn & Motel Miller’s Towing Mt Whitney Motel Portal Motel The Grill Trails Motel Whitney Portal Hostel Winnedumah Winns Casino

Special Thanks to: Inyo County Bureau of Land Management City of Los Angeles Department of Power & Water CalTrans The Inyo Register Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce Lone Pine Lions Club Volunteers of the Lone Pine Film Festival

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SAVE DATE THE

OcTObEr 9-11, 2015

For the 2015 Lone Pine Film Festival, we will honor the memory of Tom Mix on the 75th anniversary of his death with the theme, “Silents Please!� We will highlight a number of silent films, with live accompanists, filmed in the Lone Pine area. Among the films will be an encore presentation of The roundup, as well as films featuring stars Tom Mix, buck Jones and Hoot Gibson.

For more information, visit www.lonepinefilmfestival.org.