Lone Pine Film Festival Program Guide 2015

Welcome back – ‘Silents, Please!’ – Celebrating the early Westerns

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or 26 years and counting, Lone Pine has celebrated the heritage of the Western film and the heroes and heroines of the silver screen. The names Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Clayton Moore, John Wayne and Randolph Scott bring many happy memories of Saturday afternoon matinees.

Those Western film buffs among us are able to watch the fondly remembered films of our past on TV, DVD and, more recently, the Internet; and, we also can see the films of earlier legends from the silent and early sound era before our time — Bronco Billy Anderson, William S. Hart, Jack Hoxie and Tom Mix to name but a few. We relish the drama of the silent screen and the great actors and directors who brought the action, adventure and wide-open spaces to early twentieth-century audiences.

Our 26th Lone Pine Film Festival pays tribute to the silent and early sound era through screenings such as Lone Pine’s first on location movie, “The Round-up,” starring Fatty Arbuckle. In addition, “The Riders of the Purple Sage” (1925) starring Tom Mix, “Red Raiders” (1928) with Ken Mayard and Hoot Gibson’s “Texas Streak” (1926) will be featured in their original format with piano accompaniment by J.C Munns.

We will also be screening more recent Westerns and have the opportunity to hear from our guests — actors Barry Corben, Rex Linn and Bruce Boxleitner, writer Robert Knott and critic Ken Turan — as they discuss these films and the future of the Western in the 21st Century.

We will hear from Billy King, now 91 years old, and the opportunity of a lifetime that came his way in 1937 when he was offered a prominent role in four Hopalong Cassidy movies, three of which were filmed in Lone Pine.

His vivid memories of working with William Boyd, his wife, Grace, and director Lesley Selander are priceless.

Sylvia Durando, one of Hollywood’s prolific stuntwomen for over 30 years, shares her memories of working with Elvis Presley, Victor Mature, Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner and others. Wyatt McCrea and William Wellman, Jr. will be discussing their famous ancestors.

Historian Robert S. Birchard from the American Film Institute, author

Petrine Mitchum and L.A. Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan will add their voice to this year’s festival along with Ed Hulse, Larry Floyd and one of America’s favorite daughters, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett.

A weekend highlight will be Bob White, car collector and Western historian, who brings Tom Mix’s original 1937 Cord Phaeton to Lone Pine.

Seventy-five years ago this weekend Mix’s life ended on an Arizona road in this car, and historian Gary Brown talks about Mix’s last days. Bob will discuss the history and restoration of the car.

The current schedule for the weekend is packed with celebrities, screenings, exciting panels, a cowboy rodeo, more than 20 tours and other entertainment events. Don’t miss the many special vendors in the Lone Pine Park or the vendors and celebrities in Statham Hall Community Center.

Sunday includes a Lone Pine Film Festival tradition – the Main Street Parade, “the Best Small Town Parade in America.”​ We appreciate your participation and contribution in helping us continue with our mission to honor Western Film!

Welcome and Happy Trails Bob Sigman, Director Museum of Western Film History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CREDITS

About Town

Pieces Of Lone Pine

Team Roping at Festival Rodeo Map of Lone Pine

37 Hot off the Press 40 Lone Pine in the Movies Memorabilia at the Museum

Festival Favorites Cowboy Church 38 Discussion: Bob White, Restoring 3 a legend’s legend

Discussion: The Early Years 2 Movie Site Tours 16-19 Schedule of Events 4-6 Screenings 30-31

In-Depth Meet Your 2015 Tour Guides Special Screening: ‘Showdown in Lone Pine’

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Retrospective Movie Mania Over the Years: Museum of Western Film History Lone Pine and the Early Singing Cowboy

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Stars Shine In Lone Pine

Autograph Pages 22-23 Billy King comes back to Lone Pine 6 Bronco Billy – The first reel cowboy 9 10 20 Don Edwards: The last of the troubadours 8 15 Sylvia Durando: Stuntwoman Who’s Here in 2015 24-28

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The Early Years – Working cowboys become reel cowboys

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eginning in the 1880s real working cowboys, who were accomplished horsemen and skilled cowpunchers, had begun to hire themselves out to wild west shows to supplement their incomes. Most were seasoned rodeo contestants, but this was long before there was any such thing as a “rodeo cowboy” since there were scarcely enough rodeos scheduled for even the very best to make a living. As the shows evolved and moved into the 20th Century, rodeo-style events were added, especially those involving horses, riding and roping. One of the country’s more prosperous shows was owned by the colorful Dick Stanley, one of the great bronco riders of his era.

In 1909, Dick Stanley’s Congress of Rough Riders had as one of its main stars the 27-year-old bronc rider, bulldogger, and roper Jack Hoxie.

Stanley had hired Hoxie based on the good reputation he had acquired on the Northwest rodeo circuit as both a rider and roper. Art Acord, a 19-year-old rising rodeo bronc rider, was hired as a wrangler in 1909. Another young wrangler with the show was Hoot Gibson, who Stanley had hired away from the Miller 101 Ranch in 1907 when he was only 15. Also, the show featured two of the top women trick riders/performers, Hazel Panky and 16-year-old Rose Wenger. Less than a year after meeting, Jack and Hazel were married and had become the stars of the show. In that same span, Jack had become the chief assistant to the owner even though Stanley had two brothers, Jason and Doc, as part of the show.

In late spring or early summer of 1910, Dick Stanley signed an agreement with Pathé Film Exchange to winter his show in Los Angeles and lease all of his livestock to the film company for a series of films. The film company also offered all of the performers jobs as riders and stuntmen for the winter. In October, 1910, Dick Stanley was killed by a bucking horse and his wife, Agnes, asked Jack to take over running the show and to get it to Glendale, California, for the winter, where they could fulfill the contract signed in the spring.

Once the show reached Glendale,

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Helen Gibson and Hoot Gibson performed spectacularly at working rodeos before they came to Hollywood and made the marks as Western film stars.

Hoxie went to work for Pathé. There is only one film, “Ridin’ Romance,” that lists Hoxie in the credits, but it is almost certain that Jack worked uncredited as a stuntman or bit player in most of the Pathé films that winter. In an interview later in life, Jack said he had a contract that paid him $35 a week for the winters of 1910, 1911 and 1912 and he remembers working non-stop through the winters. This is probably correct since Hoxie continued to run the Stanley Show through the 1913 season at which time the stock was sold to a rodeo promoter in Idaho. Jack went back to Hollywood where he signed a contract with the Kalem Company.

Both Art Acord and Hoot Gibson had worked as stuntmen/riders in the D. W. Griffith Biograph short “The Two Brothers” in the spring of 1910, before the Stanley show hit the road for the season, so they were well aware of the potential for working as stuntmen in movies during the off-season. Neither actor is credited in any other film before 1913, although it is known they both worked in many films. Hoot later talked about how the stunt work he did in those early films was some of the easiest money he ever made (Keep in mind he was still a teenager.) He was paid a dollar to just show up and then given $2.50 for every horse fall he did and $5 for the really dangerous stunts.

Hoot stayed with the Stanley show

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and Hoxie until it shut down for good in 1913. In 1913, he married the trick rider Rose Wenger, who changed her name to Helen Gibson, and they went to Hollywood for good. He went to work full time in movies and she became a star in “The Hazards of Helen” serial and later one of the top stuntwomen in films.

Art Acord did not go back on the road with Hoxie and Gibson. He stayed in Hollywood and appeared in a number

of Selig short films as a stunt man before he signed with Bison Films. He continued to compete in a number of rodeos until the mid-teens, at which time he went to Hollywood to stay.

Jack Hoxie. Hoot Gibson. Art Acord.

Genuine cowboys all, and all three would achieve success in motion pictures; first as extras, doubles or stuntmen, and later as stars. And all three were long associated with Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills.

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At left, fans of Tom Mix and classic cars get a chance to admire Mix’s 1937 Cord, which has been methodically restored by Bob White. At right, Tom Mix poses with his pride and joy. White will be discussing the last days of Tom Mix and his car during a program at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday at the Museum Theater.

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Bob White: Restoring a legend’s legend

ob White pursued a business career most of his life. He and his wife, Pat, put themselves through college and while Pat worked full time, Bob worked part time as well as playing music four nights a week.

Bob Bob graduated from Wichita State University in 1971 with a BBS degree and added an MBA in 1976. He is also a CPA, but only spent two years in Accounting. Bob began his professional career working with an International firm that managed companies in 30 different countries. He became CEO at age 34, and realized his life dream when he did a leveraged buyout to own Garvey International, Inc., the company he started working for when he was 19 years old. Bob has started up successful companies from scratch, as well as made many acquisitions.

Throughout his business career he had many hobbies; collector cars, Indian artifacts, archaeology, antique guns, and a love of the old west. He has served on many corporate and charity boards as CEO. His charity work extends from Music Festivals to Hospitals. He has received awards over the years including different “Achievement Awards,” Chicago Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Boy Scouts “Citizen of the Year.”

At the age of 55, Bob began selling his companies and retired to Scottsdale, Arizona to pursue his lifetime interests.

He is now an International Car Collector, active at the best “Concourse” events, rallies, and auctions in the world. He writes articles on various cars, has been interviewed live on TV many times, and has appeared on several cable car shows.

He is currently finishing a book on

one of his cars; The Tom Mix Cord, which will be on exhibit at the Museum during this year’s Film Festival. Bob’s presentation in the Museum theater will discuss Mix’s last days and the acquisition and complete restoration history of Mix’s 1937 Cord in which he was killed on Oct.12, 1940, when he lost control of his speeding Phaeton and rolled into a dry wash (now called the Tom Mix Wash) near Florence, Ariz.. He was 60 years old and made 348 Western films.

According to tommixcord.com, the 288.6CU inch V8 engine produces 170BHP. It has a single Stromberg carburetor, four-speed pre selector transmission, four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes, independent front suspension, front wheel drive and roll out headlights.

Errett Lobban Cord was the consummate salesman. By the early 1920s he had become the top seller of moon cars in Chicago and subsequently rescued the floundering Auburn Automobile Company in Auburn, Indiana.

In 1926, having acquired Dusenberg as a luxury brand in the growing Aubrun empire, he decided to launch a niche car he would name for himself.

Cord began production of the Cord 810 in 1936 with front-wheel to drive.

Its engine was a V8 from Lycoming, another company Cord had purchased.

The four-speed electric to pre shift transmission was ingenious.

The body, designed by Gordon Buehrig, was innovative, beautiful, clean, with retractable headlight design, would create a standard by which cars are judged today. It was an instant sensation at the November 1935 New

York Auto Show.

The 1937 Cords designated 812 were little changed cosmetically from 1936 models, except for the supercharged engine option. Cord’s experience with Dusenberg made it relatively simple to add a SchwitzerCummins centrifugal supercharger.

The 810 and 812 production was a total of 2,900 cars over an 18-month period. Of these, 612 were Phaetons

and only 196 were supercharged.

Another passion for Bob is the historic 101 Ranch and has culminated in Bob having the largest collection of 101 Wild West Show posters in the world, which have travelled for display at several museums.

He is a member of World Presidents Association, and Chief Executive Officers. Bob and his wife, Pat, have two children and four grandchildren.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS The Film History Museum will be the site of a Gala Opening Night Reception on Oct. 8.

Photo courtesy Film Museum

Thursday, October 8 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.

Museum Gala Opening Night Reception Lone Pine Museum of Film History. Cost: $15 for museum members, $20 for nonmembers.

7 p.m.

Concert: Don Edwards High School Auditorium. Ticket prices: $35/$45.

Photo courtesy Film Museum

Don Edwards, last of the troubadours, will be performing in concert at 7 p.m. Thursday at the High School Auditorium as part of the opening of the 2015 Lone Pine Film Festival.

Friday, October 9 7:30 a.m.

live accompaniment by guest pianist Jay C. Munns.

Tour Screening: “In Old Colorado” High School Auditorium. One screening only. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival 10 a.m.-Noon Tour: “Tremors” (Car caravan) Button only. The tour of many of the location sites for this film for those who purchased tickets will depart shortly after 11:15 a.m.

Screening “Frontier Marshall” (1939) the screening.

Admittance by Festival Button only.

9 a.m.

Screening “Goldtown Ghost Riders” (1953) Admittance by Festival Button only.

11:30 a.m.

Panel discussion: “Gunfighters Fact and Film” with Larry Floyd Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Tour: “In Old Colorado” (Bus)

9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Shopping/Autographs: Vendors and Celebrity Guests Statham Hall, 138 N. Jackson St. Shopping/Entertainment: Arts & Crafts Fair (vendors/music) Spainhower Park, north end of town.

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Tour: Tom Mix (Car caravan)

Noon-2:30 p.m.

Tour: “North South” (Bus)

1 p.m.

Screening “The Black Trail” (1924) Admittance by Festival Button only. It is presented with live accompaniment by guest pianist Jay C. Munns.

10 a.m.

Screening “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1925) Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only. It is presented with

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1 p.m.-3 p.m.

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Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking)

1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Tour: Back Lot (Car caravan)

3 p.m.

Discussion/Presentation/Screening: “Buffalo Bill” with William Wellman Jr. Following the screening of this fictional biography of William F. Cody, guests William Wellman Jr., the director’s son, and Wyatt McCrea, the star’s grandson, will talk about the film and the changes needed to bring Joel McCrea aboard and to get the film approved by the studio. Admittance by Festival Button only.

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

Tour: “Gunga Din” (Bus)

7:30 p.m.

Screening: “The Round Up” The first feature filmed in Lone Pine, now accompanied live by guest pianist Jay C. Munns. This is one of a very few pre-release (release date not set) screenings offered for this rare film.

Admittance by Festival Button only.

Tours: Visit the ticket office located at the Lions Club NW of McDonald’s.

Note: All screenings will be at the High School Auditorium.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, October 10

1 p.m.-3 p.m.

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking)

6 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Tour: Sunrise (Car caravan)

1:30 p.m.

Discussion: “Life and Legend of Tom Mix” Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

7 a.m.-10 a.m.

VFW Breakfast Post 8036, 481 S. Main St. All visitors welcome.

1:45 p.m.

Screening: “The Texas Streak”” (1926) Admittance by Festival Button only. This is a silent accompanied by pianist Jay C. Munns.

7:30 a.m.

Tour Screening: “The Hired Gun” High School Auditorium. One screening only. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

2:30 p.m.

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

Tour: Ansel Adams (Car caravan)

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

Tour: Lone Pine’s Backlot (Car caravan)

9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Shopping/Autographs: Vendors and Celebrity Guests Statham Hall, 138 N. Jackson St. Shopping/Entertainment: Arts & Crafts Fair (vendors/music) Spainhower Park, north end of town.

All day events

Rodeo: Team roping Grounds directly behind Museum.

9 a.m.

Screening: “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1931) Admittance by Festival Button only.

Screening: “Hollywood Hoofbeats: The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television” with Petrine Day Mitchum Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Tour: “Hired Gun” (Bus)

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

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Car caravan)

10 a.m.

The Silent Westerns. Screening: “Broncho Billy, the First Reel Cowboy;” followed by a comments by Robert Birchard.

Admittance by Festival Button only.

10 a.m.-noon

Tour: Alabama Arches Ranch (Car caravan)

11:15 a.m.

Screening: “Code of the West” (1947) Admittance by Festival Button only.

11:30 a.m.

Discussion: “The Hollywood Western Today” – L.A. Times critic, Kenneth Turan, Western author/scriptwriter Robert Knott and actor Rex Linn; moderated by Ed Hulse High School Quad. Admittance by Festival Button only.

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Tour: Hollywood Orient (Car caravan)

12:30 p.m.

Screening: “The New Frontier” (1935) Admittance by Festival Button only.

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

Tour: North-South (Bus)

Discussion: “Tom Mix’s 1937 cord” with Bob White, on Tom Mix’s last days and the acquisition and complete restoration history of Mix’s 1937 Cord Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

3 p.m.

Screening: “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1941) Admittance by Festival Button only.

4:15 p.m.

Screening: “Heart of Arizona” (1938) – followed with comments by Billy King High School Auditorium. Admittance by Festival Button only.

4:30 p.m.

Discussion: “Top Ten Western Movie Shootouts” with David Matuszak Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

7 p.m.

Special Screening: “Appaloosa” – discussion following with Western author/scriptwriter Robert Knott with moderator Ed Hulse Admittance by Festival Button only.

9:30 p.m.-midnight

6th Annual Cowboy Karaoke Contest Mt. Whitney Restaurant SILENTS, PLEASE!

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sunday, October 11 6 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Tour: Sunrise (Car caravan)

7 a.m.-10 a.m.

VFW Breakfast Post 8036, 481 S. Main St. All visitors welcome.

7:30 a.m.

Screening: “Rawhide” (1951) Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

Spainhower Park, north end of town

9:15 a.m.

Screening: “The Gunfighter” (1950) Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Tour: Rawhide (Bus)

11 a.m.

Discussion: Sylvia Durando, stuntwoman with more than 30 years experience in film and TV. Museum Theater. Admittance by Festival Button only.

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

Cowboy Church Spainhower Ranch. All visitors welcome.

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

Tour: Ansel Adams (Car caravan)

11 a.m.

Screening: “The Red Raiders” (1927) Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Tour: Lone Pine’s Backlot (Car caravan)

9 a.m.

Shopping/Autographs: Vendors and Celebrity Guests Statham Hall, 138 N Jackson St.

9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Great merchandise/food court

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11 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

1 p.m.

Parade of Stars. Main Street.

2 p.m.

Screening: “Black Midnight” (1949) Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

3 p.m.-5 p.m.

Tour: Anchor Ranch (Walking)

3:30 p.m.

Screening: “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1996) Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

4 p.m.

Premier screening: “Showdown at Lone Pine” Museum Theater. Seating is limited to 85 persons. Admittance by tour ticket or Festival Button only.

Dusk

Sunday Night Closing Campfire Hosted by long-time Festival supporter, Master of Ceremonies, and cowboy poet, Larry Maurice.

Spainhower Park, north end of town

Billy King comes back to Lone Pine

acon? Sausage? Eggs? Filming that scene in “Heart of with childhood cowboy star, Hopalong Cassidy.

Arizona” with William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy.

His Hollywood career started in Delano, California, “Sometimes I remember those times better than when his father brought home a young Mustang colt. Tony, I remember what I had for breakfast this morning,” Billy as he named him, stood 14 hands, was dark sorrel body King said with a laugh in a recent telephone interview. with black mane and tail and three white stocking feet.

King, 91, was 12 years old at the time he came to Lone Billy’s dad was a professional “mule skinner” who Pine, star-struck, knowing nothing of acting but “just gaga trained Tony, and trained Billy to show Tony in Northern about the whole thing,” he said.

California horse shows. Tony’s home was the barn in the King would go on to perform in four Hopalong Cassidy back yard with large fenced corrals for exercise. Billy’s movies, he truly was a member of the cast and even got fan responsibility was to clean the barn and care for the horse. mail.

Tony and Billy, guided by his dad’s training, entered “I answered some of them,” King said. “Kids were stock horse events in several Northern California, county enamoured with me – some kid who was able to be a hero “Hopalong Rides Again” (1937) fair horse shows. As a result of winning many local events was another Hopalong Cassidy and respective press, Billy received a call from Hollywood in a Hopalong Cassidy movie.”

King said he is looking forward to participating in Lone movie that Billy King appeared producer Pop Sherman. making him the envy of Pine Film Festival and it will be sort of a homecoming for in, Sherman, an American producer of low-budget every other 12-year-old boy him.

Westerns had formed, Harry Sherman Productions in across the country.

“I’m going to ne quite the celebrity, I hear,” King said.

1935, to produce films based on Clarence Mulford’s “There’s not too many people left who had face-to-face Hopalong Cassidy character making more than 50 films time with Bill Boyd.” and dozens of other Westerns as well.

In the 1930s, there weren’t many opportunities for child actors in It was 1937, Billy was in seventh grade. Sherman was searching for a kidHollywood. But Billy King snagged a plum multi-picture role and went on to star cowboy for four of his upcoming Hopalong movies. In Hollywood, he and his

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A scene from “Heart of Arizona,” (1938) with William Boyd, center, as Hopalong Cassidy and Billy King, right, as Artie. King will discuss his experiences of appearing in four Hopalong Cassidy movies as a youngster after a screening of “Heart of Arizona at 4:15 Saturday at the High School Auditorium.

dad sat down with Pop Sherman, the producer, and Lesley Selander, the director. Billy was handed a script and asked to read a scene for Mr. Selander. Selander approved and “Pop” offered a weekly salary. While Billy readily admits he absolutely had “no acting ability at all,” he declared – “But I could ride a horse.” Billy and his dad promised to show up in Lone Pine, California, where the Alabama Hills were landscape to 100s of silver screen westerns, to shoot four movies. Dad, suggested Tony be included and thus Tony became a part of the contract and a 12-year-old bug-eyed kid left Hollywood with a Hollywood contract.

In Lone Pine, Billy, his dad and Tony and arrived ready for work. The studio provided a teaching-tutor to continue his grammar school studies, and Dad chaperoned all events except his directed scenes in the films. They stayed at the, now famous, Dow Motel. Each night the “Board” posted the next day’s shooting events: place, time, and scenes that communicated daily instructions for the various teams. The “Board” listed Billy’s scenes. He then was sent to practice the story writers’ translated scripts from Mulford’s book as to what the kidcowboy would say on the screen. Grace Boyd, Hoppy’s wife and always companion, tutored Billy on his lines.

Selander was very clear about the script. He would say “Billy, you know the story and you live the life, so you can use your own words to express what you’re thinking. I want you to interact on the screen like you would if you were interacting with a real person.” Selander gave Billy the self-assurance so the cameras could capture a kid-cowboy who worshipped the Hoppy three-some on film. Billy became friends with many of the crew, learning about camera lighting, logistics, and “cowboy-extras,” after all he was now an accepted member of the Hoppy-team.

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Sylvia Durando – Riding, stunts and no regrets

t was her mom who “volunteered” her for Hollywood, Sylvia Durando recalls.

Her mom would search for horses to be used in movies and Sylvia was raised around horses.

“It was just kind of sporadic,” Durando said of Hollywood. “I didn’t work consistently. It was whenever they needed someone to ride a horse and I was available.”

Memorable moments in her career include riding a mule at the start of a Randalph Scott movie.

“I’m riding this mule, no saddle, no stirrups,” Durando said. “It was interesting - a fun trip coming up that gulch.”

Durando has been to several Lone Pine Film Festivals, including last year as a panelist, and she said she admires what organizers are doing.

“It’s keeping those films alive, preserving them,” Durando said. “Those Western movies need to be preserved and shared.”

Durando’s grandfather, an oil baron and mining speculator who helped establish the oil fields in Signal Hill (Long Beach area) and Round Mountain (Bakersfield), purchased the palatial mansion of the silent cowboy film star and Tom Mix rival Fred Thomson from his widow Frances Marion. Sylvia lived the life of luxury at the late cowboy’s estate for several years until her father, a successful Chief Draftsman for the Fluor Corporation and her mother, an avid horse trainer of American Saddlebred and Hackney horses, purchased a home in Burbank where Sylvia attended local schools. Her mother wrote articles for Saddle and Bridal magazine and encouraged Sylvia to begin riding as a child. Sylvia would go on to exercise horses for several people including a not so popular cowboy film star, but later, a more than decent President – Ronald Reagan.

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Bronco Billy – The first reel cowboy

s the theme of the Festival this year pays homage to the silent films, Saturday’s screening of “Broncho Billy, The First Reel Cowboy,” is certainly fitting.

Gilbert M. “Bronco Billy” Anderson (March 21, 1880 – Jan. 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.

In 1907, Anderson and George Kirke Spoor founded Essanay Studios (“S and A” for Spoor and Anderson), one of the major early movie studios.

Anderson acted in more than 300 short films. He played a wide variety of characters, but he gained enormous popularity from a series of 148 silent Western shorts and was the first film cowboy star, “Broncho Billy.” Spoor stayed in Chicago running the company like a factory, while Anderson traveled the western United States by train with a film crew shooting movies.

Writing, acting, and directing most of these movies, Anderson also found time to direct a series of “Alkali Ike”

Robert S. Birchard, an awardwinning film editor, will discuss “Bronco Billy” Anderson and the silent Westerns after a screening at 10 a.m. Saturday at the High School Auditorium.

comedy westerns starring Augustus Carney. In 1916, Anderson sold his ownership in Essanay and retired from acting. He returned to New York, bought the Longacre Theatre and produced plays, but without permanent success. He then made a brief comeback as a producer with a series of shorts with Stan Laurel, including his first work with Oliver Hardy in A Lucky Dog (filmed in 1919, released in

1921). Conflicts with the studio, Metro, led him to retire again after 1920.

Anderson sued Paramount Pictures for naming a character “Bronco Billy” in Star Spangled Rhythm (1943) and for depicting the character as a “washed-up and broken-down actor,” which he felt reflected badly on him. He asked for $900,000, but the outcome of the suit is unknown.

Anderson resumed producing movies, as owner of Progressive Pictures, into the 1950s, then retired again. In 1958, he received an Honorary Academy Award as a “motion picture pioneer” for his “contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment.”

At age 85, Anderson came out of retirement for a cameo role in “The Bounty Killer” (1965). For the last years of his life, he lived at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif.

After the screening, Robert S. Birchard, an award-winning film editor, is scheduled to discuss “Bronco Billy” and his films.

Birchard brings an insider’s perspective and a great affection for the people who work in the picture business to his chronicles of the movies. He is the author of “Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood,” “Silent-era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara,” and “King Cowboy: Tom Mix and the Movies.” He is a contributing writer to the omnibus volumes “M-G-M When the Lion Roars,” “Don Miller’s Hollywood Corral,” “The Encyclopedia of Early Film” and “Hollywood: The Movie Factory.”

His articles on Hollywood filmmakers have appeared in American Cinematographer, Statement, Film History, The Moving Image, Griffithiana, Daily Variety and Los Angeles Times Calendar.

He is a past president and current board member of the preservation organization Hollywood Heritage, Inc. and is current president of The Society for Cinephiles/Cinecon which presents the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival and contributes to film preservation projects.

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Don Edwards – The last of the troubadours

he songster from Hico, Texas is a historian, author, musicologist and a true American patriot.

Don Edwards, who will take Lone Pine High School Auditorium stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, grew up on the books by Will James and idolized Tom Mix and Ken Maynard. He even wrote a beautiful song about Tom Mix’s last sundown – West of Yesterday.

Grammy-nominated Edwards continues to build a legacy that enriches our vision of the American West.

In tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who have lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both mind and heart, bringing to life the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art. The quality of this cowboy balladeer’s music stems from the fact that he is so much more than a singer. Bobby Weaver of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, summed up Edwards’ importance as “... the best purveyor of cowboy music in America today.”

A historian, author and musicologist, unusually well-versed in cowboy lore and musical traditions, Don brings a rare complement of knowing and loving his craft. Mostly though, there is the soul of a poet; a man who has never succumbed to the temptations of presenting a glamorized or romanticized version of the West. Edwards deals with bad weather, petty motivations, sadness, nostalgia and longing as parts of the landscape like any other.

The son of a vaudeville magician, Don was aware of a vast cross-section of music from classical to jazz, and blues to Western-swing. Many of those influences enter his own music as they did the music of the West.

Edwards was drawn to the cowboy life by the books of Will James and was presented the Will James Society’s ‘Big Enough Award’, awarded annually to one who personifies the Western and Cowboy way of life and achievements. He also loved the ‘B’ Westerns of the silver screen, particularly those featuring ‘sure‘nuff cowboys’ like Tom Mix and Ken Maynard. He taught himself guitar at age ten, and in 1961, got his first professional job as an actor/singer/stuntman at Six Flags Over Texas. In 1964, Don released his first recording on REN Records of Dallas.

Don became part owner of The White Elephant Saloon in the Fort Worth Stockyards where ballad hunter and historian, John Lomax collected cowboy songs. Subsequently, Esquire magazine named The White Elephant one of America’s 100 best bars.

Edwards also began playing throughout Oklahoma and Texas, and with the birth of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, he achieved widespread recognition. He has now played his special brand of music throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Europe and the Far East.

Edwards has two recorded anthologies of cowboy songs: Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the

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Don has presented seminars at Yale, Rice, Texas Christian and other universities. His recordings under the Warner Brothers Western label, Goin’ Back to Texas, Songs of the Trail, The Bard & The Balladeer and West of Yesterday spawned a new audience fo his music. The summer of 1997 found Don Edwards in Livingston, Montana portraying the role of Smokey in Robert Redford’s film The Horse Whisperer. In addition to his acting/singing role, Don is featured on the MCA soundtrack. In May of 1998, to coincide with The Horse Whisperer theater release, Warners compiled and released The Best of Don Edwards while Western Jubilee offered My Hero Gene Autry, recorded live at Mr. Autry’s 90th birthday celebration. His next two

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Don Edwards, Western Music Association Hall of Fame in 2005, will perform live at 7 p.m. Thursday at the High School Auditorium after the opening reception at the museum, which starts at 4:30 p.m.

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recordings for Western Jubilee resulted in two more visits to Oklahoma City to receive the Outstanding Traditional Western Music Recording of the Year award

- A Prairie Portrait with Waddie Mitchell and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (April 2001) and Kin To The Wind, Memories of Marty Robbins (April 2002).

In the Fall of 2002, Western Jubilee released an important special project: Don Edwards and Bluegrass icon, Peter Rowan teamed up on High Lonesome Cowboy. This recording traces the roots of Western music from Appalachia to Abilene and includes legendary musicians, Norman Blake and Tony Rice.

High Lonesome Cowboy resulted in a Grammy nomination for 2002 – the first time Cowboy music has ever been nominated for this prestigious award. In 2003, Western Jubilee released Saddle Songs II – Last of the Troubadours, 32 more Classic Cowboy Songs, which was followed by Don’s newest book, Saddle Songs – A Cowboy Songbag. In 2005, the Werner Herzog film production, Grizzly Man was released featuring Don’s complete recording of Coyotes at the conclusion of the movie. In April 2007, Don Edwards’ Western Jubilee recording Moonlight and Skies received a Wrangler Award and in 2009, Western Jubilee offered Don’s first long awaited and often requested inspirational recording, Heaven on Horseback as well as his first concert video, Live at Western Jubilee. In 2008 and 2009 Don Edwards did some unique touring in hologram form. The state of Texas commissioned Don to go to New York City to be filmed as a hologram, talking and singing of Texas in a campfire setting. This hologram performance toured major fairs, festivals and events in the United States.

2010 marks Don Edwards’ 50th year of performing and his becoming the recipient of The National Cowboy

Museum’s Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award. The award is named for the founder of that museum and Don is among a select few to receive this most prestigious award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to perpetuating the ideals, history and heritage of the American West.

The richness of Don’s voice coupled with an unforgettable stage presence makes Don Edwards America’s Cowboy Balladeer. The accolades are simply a bonus for Edwards, who sings what he does out of love and respect for the genre. Don’s career continues to blossom, and luckily for all, has added much to the literature and music of the West, passing on a rich legacy to the rest of us.

Some of his other cowboy silver screen heroes commented about his music: Gene Autry after Don played at his 90th birthday celebration, from which a live recording My Hero Gene Autry was released, thanked Don for the tribute performance and said: “I’m proud and honored to be riding the same trail as you.” Roy Rogers commented: “In listening to Don’s fine voice, I hear a little bit of some of my favorites like Marty Robbins and my good friend Bob Nolan.” Rex Allen cut to the chase and said Don Edwards was “The Best of the best.”

To have one’s boyhood singing cowboy heroes on horseback say such things, could give someone a swelled head, however Don remains a humble man and one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. The Don Edwards concert Thursday night should not be missed.

You’ll regret it if you do!

Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door.

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Test your knowledge of early cinema against these questions about films made in Lone Pine and the Eastern Sierra: 1. How many movies filmed in Lone Pine did William Boyd play Hopalong Cassidy?

2. How old was Billy King when he starred as Hopalong Cassidy kid sidekick?

3. Who did William Boyd consider his “friends”?

4. As a leading man in silent movies, how much did William Boyd earn annually?

5. What was the first movie ever shot in Lone Pine (1919) and who was its star?

6. What role did Don Edwards play in Robert Redford’s “The Horse Whisperer?

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7. What two Don Edwards albums are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress?

8. What 1960 movie did stuntwoman Sylvia Durando appear in and who did she double for in that movie?

9. What was the name of the first Hollywood all-color movie filmed in Death Valley in 1923?

10. Bruce Boxleitner, a celebrity guest at this year’s festival, is probably best known for what role in what CBS television show?

11. How many films that were filmed in Lone Pine featured Gary Cooper?

12. In what movie filmed in Lone Pine did Gary Cooper appear in which he was uncredited?

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stuntman and festival celebrity guest Diamond Farnsworth seriously injured?

Who is Diamond Farnsworth’s stuntman and Academy Award nominated father?

How many movies shot in Lone Pine did Gene Autry star in?

What movie filmed in Lone Pine scored 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and was selected for the preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”?

Who is considered to have been the first on-screen singing cowboy in a movie filmed in Lone Pine and what was the movie titled?

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?

How is it that William Wellman earned his nickname, “Wild Bill”?

How many films shot in Lone Pine did Roy Rogers appear in?

In “Round-Up,” what is the ironic name of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s character?

Another comedy genius, known for physical stunts, also appeared in “RoundUp” without credit. Who was that actor?

What movie filmed in the Lone Pine area first featured Tom Mix and who was his costar?

How many superherobased films have been made in Lone Pine?

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

What two zombie-based projects did festival celebrity guest Rex Linn appear in?

In the movie “Appalossa,” which relative did Ed Harris pick to play a small role?

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in the film “The Gunfighter” (1950) also was featured prominently in another movie shot in Lone Pine. What was that movie?

29. In “The Black Trail” (1924) Jack Hoxie’s character apparently is suffering from what?

30. If people were searching for Bobby Fischer in 1982 where would they have found him and what was he doing?

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Museum Announces Release of 2015 ‘Lone Pine in the Movies’

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 its latest venture just in time for the 2015 event.

This year’s “Lone Pine in the Movies,” just released for the 26th Lone Pine Film Festival, examines vintage films made in and around this sleepy little town nestled among the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains and the shadow of majestic Mt. Whitney.

With this 2015 issue of “Lone Pine in the Movies” the museum is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the death of Tom Mix. On Oct. 12, 1940, Mix was driving from Tucson to Florence, Ariz., when his car ran off the road and he was killed. In honoring Mix the museum is presenting several essays about his career as well as those of a couple of his contemporaries who worked in Lone Pine.

The book opens with a brief biographical overview and appreciation of Tom Mix by Robert S. Birchard, the author of “King Cowboy: Tom Mix in the Movies.” Next is an article about “Just Tony” by Duane Spurlock that originally appeared in Blood ‘n’ Thunder Magazine

(Winter 2012) gives us an in-depth look at the origin of the story that became the basis of the Tom Mix film Just Tony which was filmed in Lone Pine. Long time contributor Richard W. Bann uses Flaming Guns, an early Lone Pine sound film, as a springboard to look at Tom Mix’s film career with the emphasis on his Lone Pine silent films. He uses a similar approach with Lucky Terror and its star Hoot Gibson. Gary Brown contributed the story of Tom Mix’s last trip from New York to the spot on Arizona Highway 89, eighteen miles south of Florence, where he died at approximately 2:15 PM, on that day 75 years ago. Essays by Mike Bifulco and Chris Langley cover Buck Jones and Jack Hoxie respectively and Los Angeles Times photographer Don Kelsen matches old movie stills with contemporary shots.

The museum’s publishing group has been publishing the Lone Pine in the Movies series since 2007. Each edition complements the annual Lone Pine 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.

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. In 2013, the group acquired the rights to several books by Western film historian David Rothel. These are: Who Was That Masked Man? The Story of the Lone Ranger; Those Great Western Sidekicks and Tim Holt.

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

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documentary story of heroes, epic landscapes, tough guys and tougher gals, of wild adventure and everyday life in Lone Pine … and how they celebrate the Hollywood legends who made their movies there.

This film is a labour of love by British ex-advertising creative director and filmmaker John Jessup, who fell in love with the place that spawned the cowboy legends that illuminated his childhood.

It was mostly filmed in June and October 2014 during the film festival, and features interviews with the people that make their living in the town, and those who come to be part A movie still from British director John Jessup’s film, “Showdown in Lone Pine, to premier Sunday. of the film festival.

While on vacation in the U.S. in October 2013, and remembering his “good co-producer, Valerie Pierre-Louis to attend the Lone Pine Film History times” in Lone Pine, Jessup traveled through Lone Pine again. He was surprised Museum’s annual, Concert in the Rocks – “Jazz Comes West,” which featured to find the town full of visitors participating in the annual Lone Pine Film six of America’s greatest Jazz musicians. He brought a small crew hoping to get Festival, which is dedicated to honoring and preserving America’s Western some footage for a preliminary presentation to British TV in hopes of garnering “Cowboy Film” Heritage. Jessup talked with many of them and with Lone Pine interest and support for a full documentary on Lone Pine and the Film Festival. citizens. He left with a sense that “something special” happens in Lone Pine.

The premier is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, at the Museum Not just during the Festival – but year round. The town even had built a Western Theater.

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“Gunga Din,” starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Anchor Ranch

Alabama Hills, Hollywood Orient • Tour guide: Chris Langley • Saturday: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

We know that Hollywood was never too careful about accurately portraying cultures but they still created both compelling and enjoyable films. In this tour you travel to India, the Khyber Pass, Arabia, Iran and other exotic locations for films such as “Gunga Din”, “I Cover the War”, “Lives of Bengal Lancer”, and “King of the Khyber Rifles.” Led by Chris Langley, who lived in Iran for two years, the Alabama Hills, Hollywood’s Orient Tour will explore what these cultures are really, rather than the “Orientalism” distortions that flickered on our screens in the past.

CAR CARAVAN 2 hours

• Tour guide: Debbie Kielb • Friday: 1-3 p.m. (sold out) • Saturday: 9:30-11:30 a.m.; 1-3 p.m. a.m.

• Sunday: 3-5 p.m.

The Anchor Ranch Walking Tour is a walking tour of the location for many Hopalong Cassidy and Tim Holt films.

Anchor Ranch is currently a working ranch owned and operated by three generations of Spainhowers. The ranch has been used in Westerns for more than 80 years, becoming a Hacienda, Mission and the Anchorville set for many Hopalong Cassidy and Tim Holt Westerns. 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 where more than 70 films worked. It played the Bar 20, and many other ranches. It is where the Hallmark Channel filmed so many scenes for their made-for television film “What I Did For Love.” Now you can see behind the scenes of this very famous film location. Remember this is a real working ranch so you might just get a glimpse of what ranching is like today.

WALKING 2 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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Anchor Ranch during its hey day, when movie sets were as common as cattle.

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

• Sunday: 8:30-11 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 that want further insight into Ansel Adams, a multifaceted and visionary photographer.

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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.

Participants to meet at the S. Museum parking lot. Tour will leave at the times designated below. Some walking on uneven ground – suggest wearing appropriate shoes.

CAR CARAVAN 2 hours

Arches of the Alabama Hills • Tour guide: Page Williams • Saturday: 10 a.m.-noon (sold out) Most people would agree that the Alabama Hills exhibit an extraordinary beauty with its unique rock formations, stunning skylines, and the backdrop of the majestic High Sierra mountain range. It is no wonder that the film industry has repeatedly chosen this area as a location for so many movies. However, hidden within the rocks, there is another, often overlooked, natural treasure, the arches of the Alabama Hills.

CAR CARAVAN 2 hours

See the arches of the Alabama Hills, and the magnificent backdrop of the High Sierra mountain range, with the likes of Mt. Whitney, shown here in the window of this arch.

Billy King Remembers Hopalong Cassidy

Gunga Din

• Tour guide: Reid Campbell • Friday: 3 to 5:30 p.m. (sold out) • Tour guide: Don Kelsen Filmed here in the summer and fall of • Friday: 2-4:30 p.m. (sold out) 1938, “Gunga Din” remains to this day the • “Heart of Arizona” Screening: 4 p.m. largest production ever filmed in the Lone Saturday, High School Auditorium Pine area. The production company created Festival guest Billy King visits the Alabama huge sets, hired over a thousand extras, and Hills for the first time since his preteen acting built a tent city to house the cast and crew. It is career began and ended as a cast member of recognized as one of the rare films of its era four “Pop Sherman” Hopalong Cassidy films. and has stood up well to modern sensitivities.

Join 90-year-old Billy King as he’s reacquainted Visit the site of the temple, the village of Tanta with several, Alabama Hills Hoppy locations Pur, battle scene locations and see the location including “Heart of Arizona,” where he’ll of the bridge crossed by the elephants. share his memories and acting anecdotes with those in attendance. Short walk involved in BUS 2.5 hours accessing locations after caravanning to the Alabama Hills.

CAR CARAVAN 2 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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to water.” The movie depicts conflict with two ranchers, herding cattle in and around the scenic Alabama Hills. Hoppy, Lucky and California travel from the Bar 20, in Arizona to Colorado to solve the mystery behind the fight for water.

BUS 2.5 hours

Tour guide: Burt and Donna Yost Friday: 1- 3:30 p.m.

Saturday: 8:30-11 a.m. (sold out) Sunday: 8:30-11 a.m. (sold out) The Lone Pine Back Lot Tour will visit locations seldom seen by our visitors; a must tour for movie buffs! All locations still standing, just as seen in the movies. We will travel up tremors pass to a rare visit of the Tim Holt cabin and a picture stop of Hoppy’s cabin. After, we will descend down the Bar 20 Trail to Movie Lake. Then we will follow an old desert trail to a ghost town and mining town were so many movies were made with screen legends Steve McQueen, Tim Holt, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Robert Mitchum, Tom Mix, Jack Hoxie, Fred Hume, Ken Maynard, Dick Jones, Pat O Brien, James Coburn, Hitchcock, Jack Palance, Patrick Wayne, Robert Lansing, Don Murray, and many others we grew up John Wayne’s Film Location Tour with. In total we will visit locations where • Tour guide: Mike Royer more than 30 movies were made. Hidden • Friday: Noon-2 p.m.

Lone Pine at its best.

From his earliest starring roles in Poverty CAR CARAVAN Row westerns to his final 1978 Great Western Savings TV commercial, legendary John Wayne came to Lone Pine, one of his “favorite places of all time,” – according to his widow, Pilar.

Join us on a tour that pays tribute to “The Duke.” Visit the rocks and sagebrush of the Alabama Hills and walk where Wayne worked before the camera. Over a 45-year period, parts of 13 features, “B” westerns, such as “Westward Ho,” “Blue Steel,” “King Of The Pecos,” “Lawless Range;” adventure films “I Cover The War,” “The Three Godfathers” and the big budget epic “Tycoon” were filmed on location in Lone Pine. You will actually tread the dust where outlaw bands were rounded In Old Colorado Tour up and where train tunnels were dug in the • Tour guide: Don Kelsen mighty Andes. You’ll even see some actual • Friday: 9- 11 a.m. (sold out) artifacts remaining all these years later. As you • Sunday: 3-5 p.m. travel through the ageless Alabama Hills, your • Screening: 7:30 a.m. Friday, High guide, Mike Royer, will tell stories about “The School Auditorium Duke” and how he got the nickname, his early In Old Colorado is a Tour about the “right career and the boosts he got from Raoul

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.

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Walsh and John Ford, show original production stills from scenes at the many sites and pepper the tour with reminiscences of his 40+ years love affair with the Alabama Hills.

These are the same hills we heard an early John Wayne (The Singing Cowboy) strum a guitar and serenade in “Westward Ho.” BUS 2.5 hours

North-South Tour • Tour guide: Melody Holland-Ogburn • Saturday 12:30- 3 p.m. (sold out) Considered one of the most scenic drives, you’ll see LOTS 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 Founder Dave Holland. View the Hoppy cabin where the Boyd’s honeymooned. Stand where Gene Autry, John Wayne and Tom Mix worked. Walk to the Lone Ranger ambush site then through the canyon to 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; see 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.

The bus tour itself is 2.5 hours.

BUS 2.5 hours

Rawhide Movie Tour • Tour guide: Melody Holland-Ogburn • Sunday: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

• Screening: 7:30 a.m. Sunday, High School Auditorium Enjoy the Alabama Hills while someone else drives! Take pictures from the bus while we head north on Movie Road. Come celebrate one of Lone Pine’s signature films!

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Released in 1951, “Rawhide” was filmed entirely in the Alabama Hills. You’ll see where the stagecoach stop house and barn, the gate, the water tower all were built in the area where most of the movie was filmed. Did you know two people played one part?!

Further north, you’ll visit an Audie Murphy location and the “bombing area” in “Iron Man.” Heading around east back to Highway 395, you’ll see more Tyrone Power locations from the other two movies he shot in the Alabamas and the Alabama Gates of the aqueduct.

BUS 2.5 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 breath taking 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 couldn’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

The sci-fi monster movie “Tremors,” shot in the Lone Pine area, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. There will be a tour from 10 a.m. to noon Friday.

The Hired Gun Tour

of the Purple Sage (1925) was one of his greatest hits and you will see many important • Tour guide: Don Kelsen sites from the film. We begin in Lone Pine • Saturday: 9-11:30 a.m. (sold out) town where we see the locations of the first • Screening: 7:30 a.m. Saturday, High significant set built here. Then follow out the School Auditorium old road that parallels Whitney Portal Road The Hired Gun Movie Tour is based on to locations along Lone Pine Creek. Finally the dramatic story of a woman accused of see where Tom built the adobe buildings murdering her husband. Ellen Beldon (Anne where he and his darling would spend the Francis) is awaiting the hangman in a Texas rest of their lives together. jail. Rory Calhoun, ‘The Hired Gun’ kidnaps CAR CARAVAN 2 hours Ellen Beldon, to return her to Texas after breaking out of jail with the help of Judd Farrow (Chuck Connors) ranch foreman for Tremors Tour 25 Years! her uncle, in New Mexico. The Alabama Hills • Tour guide: Mike Prather is the Cinemascope, setting for the escape • Friday: 10 a.m.-Noon (sold out) and return of Anne Francis, (a Lone Pine Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tremors.

Film Festival guest, several times.) Anne Shot almost entirely on location in and Francis starred, with the Alabama Hills, two around Lone Pine, this year’s Tremors tour years before this film, in “Bad Day At Black will travel to the site on Tuttle Creek Road Rock.” where the unfortunate county road workers BUS 2.5 hours pierced the ‘graboid’ with a jackhammer and paid for their mistake with their lives. You will then travel to a view of the mountain Tom Mix’s Hidden Location Tour escape route that the survivors of Perfection • Tour guide: Chris Langley took while fleeing the worms. Next it’s on to • Friday: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (sold Movie Road where the famous pole vaulting between rocks took place and then on to the out) location where poor old Fred, innocently • Sunday 3- 5 p.m.

Come along with film historian Chris tending his garden, was attacked along with Langley as we follow the trail of silent film his sheep resulting in bloody gore. hero Tom Mix working in Lone Pine. Riders CAR CARAVAN 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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MEET YOUR 2015 TOUR GUIDES Reid Campbell

Reid Campbell shares his time between Dominican Republic and the nearby desert mining town of Darwin, Calif. He was born in Hollywood Calif., studied film scoring at UCLA and currently composes music, is a pilot and owns a crop dusting business in the Dominican Republic.

Reid has loved the movie Gunga Din since childhood seeing it over 20 times.

With his sense of adventure, love of exploring the High Desert and Hollywood background he is excited to share his passion with you with the Gunga Din tour this film festival.

Debbie Kielb

Debbie 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

Don has been attending and learning about the Alabama Hills, film locations since the first festival in 1990. Inspiration for pin pointing filming locations comes from Don’s association with Festival cofounder Dave Holland and their work together on Dave’s first video: “On Location in Lone Pine”

Catherine Kravitz

As the Collections Manager and docent of the Lone Pine Film History Museum, Catherine 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 in Ansel Adams.

Coupled with her experience in the art world as an art gallery owner and her communication 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.

Chris Langley

A life-long educator, has lived in and studied the Mojave Desert for over 40

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years. Achieving his BA in EnglishHistory at Dartmouth College, He is the writer/historian part of a collaboration (along with Osceola Refetoff, fine art photographer) called “”High & Dry: dispatches from the land of little rain” and their work can be found at desertdispatches.com.

Langley’s writing includes work appearing regularly in The Inyo Register, The Sun Runner, and KCET’s Artbound.

Other publications include a history of Lone Pine, CA, a cultural history of Mount Whitney, and From Jayhawkers to Jawas: a Short History of Filming in Death Valley. Founder of the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group, Langley’s environmental advocacy won commendations including a Nat’l Conservation Cooperation Award and a Sierra Nevada Business Council 20/20 Vision Award.

Larry Maurice

Larry has spent the last 35 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. You’re likely to find him leading a string of mules into the back country, on a horse drive in the Owens Valley of California, or working with Longhorn cattle in Virginia City, Nevada.

Larry juggles his need to be on horseback with his busy entertainment schedule. 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.

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. Through poetry, song and stories, Larry is able to

transport his audience back in time, allowing them to experience the cattle drives, characters and critters of the old west Larry has been honored with the “Lifetime Achievement in Cowboy Poetry Award” from the prestigious National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock,Texas.

In July of 2000, Larry received the Academy of Western Artists coveted “Will Rogers Cowboy Award” for Cowboy Poet of the Year.

Larry has been a “Lone Pine” regular since the festival’s beginning in 1989 providing guidance, support and friendship throughout the years.

Melody Holland Ogburn

Joining us again, Melody is the daughter of festival cofounder Dave Holland. Having led guests on bus tours as a step-on guide since the first year, she notes first-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!”

Mike Prather

Living and exploring in Inyo County since 1972, Mike has worked for decades on conservation issues of wild lands, water and wildlife. A dedicated student of the geology, wildlife and history of the area Mike notes Tremors as his all time favorite locally filmed movie, and thus he loves to share the story of its making.

Mike Royer

Drawn to Southern California, spring 1965, by the lure of a career in

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Comic Art, Mike spent his first 14 years in comic books, comic strips, and TV animation. He has inked many great pages including “Magnus,” “Robot Fighter and “Tarzan,” “Star Wars Speed Buggy,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids,” to name a few, but comic books fans remember his decade working with Jack Kirby as his letterer and inker.

Mike spent the next 14 years on staff with the Walt Disney Company in the creative department of their Consumer

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MEET YOUR 2015 TOUR GUIDES Product/Licensing division, addressing the areas of book publishing, comic books and strips, and all forms of theme park and licensed merchandise as a character artist/product designer, performing as idea man, concept and final line artist, and sometime inker. He created the “new look” that launched the massive “Winnie the Pooh” licensing program in late 1993 … and spent the next 7+ years free-lancing for the Disney Stores.

Mike now lives in Oregon and continues to work freelance as an Art ser service doing pencil and ink work on a wide variety of projects. A longtime Lone Pine Festival participant, Mike has a diverse knowledge of film making in the area and brings a passion for Western heritage to all his tours.

Page Williams

A fifth generation Native and part time California Historian and Wildlife photographer. Page has worked in the entertainment industry for over forty four years first in the theater with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and then with the London Royal Ballet and New

York Opera. She has worked here in Hollywood for the past 35 years and was currently elected to her third term on the executive board of I.A.T.S.E. local 80. At this point Page would rather be in Lone Pine.

Burt & 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 Alabama’s in search of their favorite movie locations. That led to a meeting with film Festival 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 Alabama’s and Eastern Sierra landscape and respective movie locations. Their annual festival tours are always a sell-out, especially the “Back Lot” tour featured above. Burt and Donna call Santa Barbara home, when not in Lone Pine.

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CELEBRITY GUESTS

Rex Linn

Rex Linn moved from Oklahoma to California in the late 1980s to become an actor in films. One of his first acting

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jobs was in the Western TV movie “Bonanza: The Next Generation.” Over the years he has appeared in a large number of TV and feature Westerns, 18 at last count, more recently “Django Unchained” and “Appaloosa,” although he is primarily known for his work in the television series “CSI: Miami” where he portrayed Detective Frank Tripp. He is currently appearing in the series “The Brink” and has a running part in “Nashville,” where he portrays Bill Lexington, the father of the character Will Lexington.

Never Coming To A Theater Near You and Free For All: Joe Papp and, his latest, The Public and The Greatest Theater Story Ever Told. Kenneth will be joining the diverse list of film celebrities at this year’s 2015 Lone Pine Film Festival.

At various times during the Festival Mr. Turan will be in the Museum to talk to guests about his books. The Museum will have his newest book, Not to be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film, for sale and Mr. Turan will be happy to autograph copies.

Please check with the Museum for specific times Mr. Turan will be available.

is the soul of a poet; a man who has never succumbed to the temptations of presenting a glamorized or romanticized version of the West.Edwards deals with bad weather, petty motivations, sadness, nostalgia and longing as parts of the landscape like any other.

Bob White

Robert Knott

Robert Knott is a third generation actor, writer and producer. His grandparents had a traveling tent show that followed the wheat harvest. When the show closed, his family settled in Oklahoma where Knott was born and raised. He has an extensive list of stage, television, and film credits including the award winning feature “Appaloosa”, based on the Robert B. Parker novel, which he adapted and produced with his partner, actor, director and fellow Oklahoman, Ed Harris. He’s a New York Times Best selling author with 3 novels to his credit; “Ironhorse,” “Bull River” and “The Bridge” and a fourth book, “Blackjack,” scheduled to be released Jan 2016 (G. P. Putnam Sons).

Upcoming projects include, “Desperadoes,” the story of the Dalton Gang based on Ron Hansen’s novel penned for FX, a Billy the Kid project with Universal, “Damnnation,” a Western with Legendary TV and a boxing Biopic for Vince Vaughn and Universal Studios, titled “Buster.”

Don Edwards

Grammy nominated songster Don Edwards continues to build a legacy that enriches our vision of the American West. In tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who have lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both mind and heart, bringing to life the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art. The quality of this cowboy balladeer’s music stems from the fact that he is so much more than a singer.

Bobby Weaver of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, summed up Edwards’ importance as “… the best purveyor of cowboy music in America today.”

An historian, author and musicologist, unusually well-versed in cowboy lore and musical traditions, Don brings a rare complement of knowing and loving his craft. Mostly though, there

Bob White pursued a business career most of his life. He and his wife, Pat, put themselves through college and while Pat worked full time, Bob worked part time as well as playing music four nights a week. Bob Bob graduated from Wichita State University in 1971 with a BBS degree and added an MBA in 1976. He is also a CPA, but only spent two years in Accounting. Bob began his professional career working with an International firm that managed companies in 30 different countries. He became CEO at age 34, and realized his life dream when he did a leveraged buyout to own Garvey International, Inc., the company he started working for when he was 19 years old. Bob has started up successful companies from scratch, as well as made many acquisitions.

Petrine Day Mitchum

Petrine Day Mitchum is a former Hollywood story editor and script analyst for The Ladd Company, Pathe, TriStar Pictures, and DreamWorks. She has made short films for Saturday Night Live and contributed to numerous publications as a photojournalist and essayist. Petrine lives in California’s Santa Ynez Valley with her three rescue dogs and two American Quarter Horses,

Kenneth Turan

Kenneth Turan is the film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post as well as the Times’ book review editor. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC. His most recent books are Not to be Missed: Fiftyfour Favorites from a Lifetime of Film,

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CELEBRITY GUESTS Bill” Wellman, spent most of his childhood around filmdom’s celebrities.

His neighborhood was filled with them.

Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Carole Lombard, Frank Capra, Lana Turner, John Payne, Jennifer Jones, Red Skelton, Peter Lawford, William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd to name just a few. If they weren’t coming to his family home, he met them at theirs, or on the sets and locations of 23 of his father’s films. His first girlfriend was Jane Fonda.

Genuine Rascal Jac and Photo Op. Petrine is returning to Lone Pine to share her stories and her new book, “Hollywood Hoofbeats: The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television,” a second-edition release. In the new edition, Petrine provides thought provoking and compelling narration as she explores one of the most complete collections of movie actors and their horses. The narration is complemented by an extensive collection of photos documenting the history of horses in American cinema. Petrine comments, “In fact, the movies might not exist at all since the entire motion picture industry evolved from an experiment with a camera and horse.”

Wyatt McCrea

Wyatt McCrea is the oldest grandchild of the late actor Joel McCrea and his actress wife, Frances Dee. Wyatt is the co-owner of Third Point Productions, which produces primarily television content, commercials and music videos.

He serves as executive producer for several television projects currently under development or in pre-production.

Most recently Wyatt was featured as Deputy Walt Tyler in the western feature “Canyon Trail.” He has been featured in both print and Internet advertising for Uberti/Benelli USA, has appeared on the cable series “Call 911” and on the History Channel’s series “Big History,” as well as various local commercials.

Diamond Farnsworth William Wellman Jr.

William Wellman, Jr., son of Hollywood’s legendary director, “Wild

Diamond Farnsworth is an accomplished stuntman, serving as stunt coordinator on the show “NCIS,” and before that working on “JAG” and “Quantum Leap.” Diamond is the son of

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Academy Award winning actor/stuntman Richard Farnsworth, who was also a one-time 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.

Sylvia Durando

Sylvia’s Durando’s grandfather, an oil baron and mining speculator who helped establish the oil fields in Signal Hill (Long Beach area) and Round Mountain (Bakersfield), purchased the palatial mansion of the silent cowboy film star and Tom Mix rival Fred Thomson from his widow Frances Marion. Sylvia lived the life of luxury at

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the late cowboy’s estate for several years until her father, a successful chief draftsman for the Fluor Corporation and her mother, an avid horse trainer of American Saddlebred and Hackney horses, purchased a home in Burbank where Sylvia attended local schools. Her mother wrote articles for Saddle and Bridal magazine and encouraged Sylvia to begin riding as a child. Sylvia would go on to exercise horses for several people including a not so popular cowboy film star, but later, a more than decent president – Ronald Reagan.

Gary Brown

As a boy, growing up in Republic.

Missouri, Gary’s grandfather would take him to a double feature “Cowboy movies” on Saturday afternoons. His first recollection of cowboy music was

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listening to Tex Ritter’s “There’s a New Moon Over My Shoulder,” playing in the town’s general store. The year was 1944.

In 1960, he became a police officer in Garden Grove, Calif. In 1978, to relieve the stress of being police chief in San Clemente, Gary started collecting memorabilia on the legendary cowboy star Tom Mix, who had been his father’s hero. To the chagrin of his wife, Sherrill, Gary’s new hobby led to his acquiring numerous vintage cowboy movie posters, autographed portraits of cowboy movie heroes, an extensive library of western films plus a collection of western art and gear. Doesn’t everyone have saddles in their living room?

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 six 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 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.” Had a line in “Trail of Robin Hood” and in the “Outlaws of Paradise Valley” episode of the Roy Rogers TV Show.

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Larry Maurice

Larry Maurice is Lone Pine’s favorite cowboy poet and master of ceremonies.

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, Larry has had to juggle his need to be on horseback with his busy entertainment schedule. A sought-after entertainer, not only for his cowboy poetry that speaks from the heart of the day-today 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, Larry will keep things moving along.

Larry’s participation in our Festival is underwritten by the Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Larry Floyd

Larry Floyd was born in South Norfolk, Va. in April 1942. Currently a resident of the Great Bridge area of Chesapeake, Va., Larry is retired after 33 years with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation as deputy assistant director. Larry is president/director of the Williamsburg Film Festival Williamsburg, Va, a member of the Company of Military Historians, a 50 veteran of the NorthSouth Skirmish Association and a member of the Board of Advisers Great Bridge Battlefield Foundation. Larry has collected antique firearms for over 50 years, concentrating on the period 1800 to 1900.

Floyd is a long time supporter of the Lone Pine FIlm Festival and married to the lovely, Nell, who accompanies him

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CELEBRITY GUESTS every year to help us celebrate. Larry will join with Bob Boze Bell in a panel presentation in the Museum theater.

Gunfighters: Fact & Film, will provide the audience with a review of both outlaws and lawman of the Western era.

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Jay C. Munns

Jay C. Munns has been entertaining audiences for nearly five decades, specializing in vintage American music from saloon piano to the great song hits of the ‘twenties, ‘thirties and ‘forties. He has performed for two U.S. presidents and entertained countless celebrities including Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, to name a few.

Billy King

We are happy to welcome Billy King to Lone Pine for his first appearance at the festival. He worked in four Hopalong Cassidy Westerns – “Hopalong Rides Again” (1937), “Texas Trail” (1937), “Heart of Arizona” (1938), and “Pride of the West” (1938), three of which were shot amidst the spectacular rockstudded terrain of the Alabama Hills.

Grace Bradley liked the casting of King because “it gave young moviegoers a way to personally identify with Hoppy.”

We look forward to the recollections of Billy King as a 12 year-old boy working (as Artie, Buck Peters’ adolescent nephew) opposite William

Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce Boxleitner is one of Hollywood’s leading men and has starred in a major motion picture franchise (“Tron” and “Tron Legacy”), numerous feature films, several popular television series (“How the West Was Won,” “Scarecrow and Mrs. King,” and “Babylon 5”), produced a major network film and TV series, performed on Broadway, and authored two science fiction novels (“Frontier Earth” and “Searcher”). Mr. Boxleitner is currently featured in Ceader Cove on the Hallmark Network.

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Film Festival to screen restored ‘Round Up’

n April 16, 1913, stage actor Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle joined Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studio as a stock player in silent comedies at the rate of $5 per day. Over the course of eight short years he became one of the most beloved, highest-paid performers in the world – his fame rivaled only by comic legend Charlie Chaplin. Today, Arbuckle’s contributions to early cinema are nearly forgotten.

The Arbuckle Anthology Noted director and film historian Paul E. Gieruck and producer Brittany Valente (producers of the critically acclaimed and award-winning DVD releases STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM, THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF ROSCOE “FATTY” ARBUCKLE, INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH KEATON, and THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION Volume One) has teamed with historians, archives, and collectors around the world to digitally restore 34

premium titles spanning the entirety of Roscoe Arbuckle’s incredible career. These long-neglected classic comedies are finally receiving a desperately needed restoration in HD. The Museum of Western Film History is excited to premier the 1920 “The Round Up,” considered by many to be the first film shot in Lone Pine.

The Film Festival is very excited to be one of the first to premier the digitally restored version. It will be screened Friday night (7:30 p.m.) at the 2015 Film Festival in the High School Auditorium.

THE ARBUCKLE ANTHOLOGY is scheduled for release in late 2015 / early 2016 from CineMuseum, LLC. www.CineMuseumLLC.com.

All screenings will be at the High School Auditorium.

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

The Round Up

In Old Colorado

Buffalo Bill

The Hired Gun

(1920) Starring: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Mabel Julienne Scott and Irving Cummings Date: Friday, October 9 Time: 7 p.m.

(1941) Starring: William Boyd, Russell Hayden and Andy Clyde Date: Friday, October 9 Time: 7:30 a.m.

(1944) Starring: Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara and Linda Darnell Date: Friday, October 9 Time: 3 p.m.

(1957) Starring: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis and Vince Edwards Date: Saturday, October 10 Time: 7:30 a.m.

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Heart of Arizona

Texas Streak

The Red Raiders

(1938) Starring: William Boyd, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes and Russell Hayden Date: Saturday, October 10 Time: 4:15 p.m.

(1926) Starring: Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey and Alan Roscoe Date: Saturday, October 10 Time: 1:45 p.m.

(1927) Starring: Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey and Alan Roscoe Date: Sunday, October 11 Time: 11 a.m.

The Riders of the Purple Sage (1925, 1931, 1941, 1996) Starring: Tom Mix, George O’Brien, George Montgomery and Ed Harris (respectively) (1925) Date: Friday, October 9 Time: 10 a.m.

(1931) Date: Saturday, October 10 Time: 9 a.m.

(1941) Date: Saturday, October 10 Time: 3 p.m.

(1996) Date: Sunday, October 11 Time: 3:30 p.m.

Buffalo Bill (1944), starring Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara and Linda Darnell, screens Friday at 3 p.m.

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Singing cowboys featured prominently in the early classic Western films, with the likes of Ken Maynard, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter.

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ountry, Western and Folk music became part of Western movies almost from the moment sound technology revolutionized the film industry.

In the beginning, many thought that sound could not be used successfully in outdoor films due to the distraction of static and noise from wind and other background sounds.

It was not until Fox had developed its sound-on-film system, Movietone, that the first sound Western, and coincidentally the first singing cowboy film, “In Old Arizona,” was released by Fox in January 1929.

Warner Baxter played the Cisco Kid, a character created by O. Henry, and won an Academy Award for the role.

Baxter not only sang in this “musical Western,” but his leading lady (Dorothy Burgess) and various men who played the cavalry also sang. The novelty of the “all talking” film was not wholly in the dialogue, because great stories had been told with the dialogue delivered via print on the screen; nor was it in the music, because pianists and orchestras had provided music for the silents for years. For the audience to hear their favorite actors speak was revelatory, but to watch and hear their favorite radio and recording stars sing was the greater novelty by far.

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Ken Maynard was an established star of silent Westerns when he signed a contract to produce and star in a series of Westerns for Universal Pictures. Legend has it that while in negotiations with studio head Carl Laemmle, the pair attended the premier of Fox’s “In Old Arizona,” and both were impressed with the effective use of sound as well as the musical interludes. As a result, even though the first few films were only partially sound, Maynard included music in them. His first Universal release, “Wagon Master” (1929), filmed in Lone Pine, features Ken serenading Edith Roberts.

Although a cowboy who sang rather than a singing cowboy, Maynard did have an impact on the singing cowboy.

In addition to singing in several films, while playing a guitar, banjo or fiddle, he helped establish the formula for the singing cowboy films to follow. Most agree, however, that his most important film was “In Old Santa Fe” (Mascot, 1934), which introduced a young radio and recording star Gene Autry, who made many films in Lone Pine.

Among the most interesting of the cowboys with strong ties to Lone Pine who sang (as opposed to the singing cowboys) was John Wayne. Wayne sang in two films, or rather lip-synced songs

in two films. “Riders of Destiny” (Lone Star, 1933), finds Wayne in a rather pleasant little film where he plays a character called Singin’ Sandy Saunders. The singing voice (Bob Steele’s twin brother and the director’s son Bill Bradbury) is so obviously not a match for the speaking voice and Wayne was so uncomfortable with the process that he refused to do another in what had been projected as a series.

The second film in which Wayne sings is “Westward Ho!” (Republic, 1935).

In it he sings with a group known as The Arizona Wranglers, who had been in films since 1930. Jack Kirk, a member of the singing group, sang for Wayne in this film.

In the years from 1935 to 1955, the so-called “Golden Age” of the movies’ singing cowboys, there were about 20 who could certainly lay claim to the label. The leading voices were certainly Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter.

Among the others were Dick Foran, Eddie Dean, Jimmy Wakely, Rex Allen and, of course, the Sons of the Pioneers. There were also some so-called sidekicks who rightfully could claim the title, Smiley Burnette, Ray Whitely and Johnny Bond among them.

The Museum’s “Singing Cowboy” exhibit pays homage to this era of Western Film History.

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Answers to trivia questions on page 12 1. William Boyd starred as Hopalong Cassidy in 31 films from 1935 to 1948.

2. Billy King was 12 years old when he portrayed Artie, Buck Peters’ adolescent nephew.

3. America’s youth. The actor refused to license his name for products he viewed as unsuitable or dangerous, and turned down personal appearances at which his “friends” would be charged admission.

4. Boyd earned an annual salary of $100,000 as a silent movie leading man.

5. The first film shot in Lone Pine in 1919 was “Lightning Bryce” and starred Jack Hoxie.

6. Don Edwards played the role of Smokey.

7. “Saddle Songs” and “Songs of the Cowboy” 8. “Comanche Station” and she doubled for leading lady Nancy Gates 9. “Wanderer of the Wasteland” 10. Lee Stetson in “Scarecrow and Mrs. King” (1983-87) 11. Four 12. “Riders of the Purple Sage” (1925), starring Tom Mix

13. He was seriously injured in an accident while doing a stunt for “Roller Coaster” (1977) when the care he was in jumped the tracks.

14. Richard Farnsworth 15. 18 16. “How the West was Won” (1963) 17. Ken Maynard in “Wagon Master” (1929) 18. “Wings” (1927) 19. He was a fighter pilot during World War I with the Lafayette Flying Corps 20. 6 21. Silm Hoover 22. Buster Keaton 23. “Just Tony” (1922), costarring Tony the Horse 24. Four – “Man of Steel” (2013) “Iron Man” (2008), “Superman” (1948), “Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) 25. John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. 26. “Zombeavers” (2014) and “The Walking Dead: Torn Apart (2011) 27. Bob Harris, Ed Harris’ father played Judge Elias Callison.

28. “The Ox Bow Incident” (1943) 29. Post traumatic stress disorder 30. He was in Lone Pine filming “The Great Chess Movie” (original French title, “Jouer sa vie”)

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Team roping returns Saturday, Oct. 10

mall Town Rodeo. Big Time Fun.” That’s the motto of the Lone Pine Film Festival Rodeo, which once again will be taking place all day Saturday at the historic Lone Pine Rodeo Grounds, just behind the Museum.

The rodeo has been organized for the past several years by volunteer Tim Jones, whose goal all along has been to try to bring this Western heritage event back to Lone Pine.

Join the regional cowboys this Saturday for an exciting afternoon of “team roping.”

Known also as heading and heeling, team roping is a rodeo event that features a steer and two mounted riders. The first roper is referred to as the “header,” the person who ropes the front of the steer, usually around the horns, but it is also legal for the rope to go around the neck, or go around one horn and the nose resulting in what they call a “half head.” The second is the “heeler,” who ropes the steer by its hind feet, with a five-second penalty assessed to the end time if only one leg is caught. Team roping is the only rodeo event where men

and women compete equally together in professionally sanctioned competition, in both single-gender or mixed-gender teams.

Prizes include a trophy saddle made by Cactus Saddlery; a buckles in the Novice Rider Competition (six to be awarded); and buckles for the Experienced Rider Competition (six to be awarded).

The origin of team roping is the heritage of early ranch cowboys who developed a technique on working ranches when it was necessary to capture and

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restrain a full-grown animal that was too large to handle by a single man. Team roping popularity has grown tremendously in the last 15 years and handicapping systems have been developed to even the competition. Today there are tens of thousands of amateur ropers who compete for millions of dollars in prize money.

Team Roping is a great family sport.

Women and men, people from ages 7 to 80 can enjoy team roping. It’s fun watching kids roping with their parents, brothers and sisters and grandparents.

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Cowboy up for church

Film Festival tradition finds fans enjoying fellowship at Anchor Ranch

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Museum adds classic Panavision camera

ne of the newest additions to the museum this year is a Panaflex G ll Camera System.

Considered one of the finest film cameras of its time, the Panaflex was used to film television and movies. Many of the Westerns and movies filmed in Lone Pine during the 70s and 80s used the Panaflex.

Special thanks for this generous long term loan and exhibit goes to

Panavision Technical Liaison David Kenig and Bill Eslick, director, OPTOmechanical engineer.

Page Williams, longtime museum supporter and member who also happens to be a member of the executive Board of Hollywoods’s I.A.T.S.E. Local 80 had originally secured the Italian made “Elemack Spyder Dolly” for the museum but sought out the Panavision to put a whole package together.

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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.

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.

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

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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.

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kid-cowboy character for the Hoppy series. When these four movies were in the “can,” Billy’s movie career ended as a kid-cowboy character.

After his brief fame, King finished high school, went to college, served in World War II as a naval pilot, married his college sweetheart and raised three children while working as an insurance executive. He earned a graduate degree in rhetoric and group dynamics, an Aristotelian pursuit, and taught college for 30 years at UC Davis.

His wife passed away in 2013, but Billy’s life is full with seven grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and anticipation of a soon to be great-great-grandchild.

In 2013, Billy returned to the Alabama Hills, his first time in 76 years, visiting the hills and ranches where the three Hoppy films were shot in 1937. He could not believe how the hills had remained unchanged. As you watched Billy remember and describe a scene, you could almost feel he was reliving the scenes of these 1930’s movies with Hoppy and Gabby and Tony.

Billy spent the afternoon that summer day in 2013 telling us a few stories.

While the last two years have not worked out for Billy to join us, this October 9-11, 2015, Billy will return to Lone Pine and the 26th annual Lone Pine Film Festival to share his wonderful remembrances with festival guests on working with Hopalong Cassidy. Grace Boyd, Gabby Hayes, Russell Hayden, films crews and director, Leslie Selandar.

This year’s film festival pays tribute to the Early Years of Westerns; of Western stars like Tom Mix, Ken Maynard, Jack Hoxie and of course, William Boyd, Hopalong Cassidy.

Note: Three of the Hoppy/King movies were shot in Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills: “Hop-A-long Rides Again” shot in 1937, and “Heart of Arizona” and “Pride of the West,” shot in 1938 (he also made “Texas Trail” in 1937, but it was shot in Arizona).

In 1949, while her mother worked with Hollywood studios locating horses for various production she assisted in getting 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 from John Burroughs High School in 1952 and began to train horses with her mother. Sylvia would marry in 1953 and used her married surname (Martinez) during the remainder of her film career. Having joined the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Screen Extras as a young girl, she would go on to remain a stuntwoman and double in movies and TV for over 30 years. Today, Hollywood doesn’t allow you to do both.

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, 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. She also worked in several television productions including a full season of the immensely popular Have Gun Will Travel with Richard Boone as Paladin. Cojo Rojo, a beautiful Appaloosa of Sylvia’s was selected for the offbeat Marlon Brando western entitled Appaloosa (1966).

Sylvia has two children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren and lives in Three Rivers, Calif., and has a retreat home on the coast in Cambria. She remains busy with her horses and mule and is active in several charitable organizations: Happy Trails Therapeutic Riding Academy, High School Rodeo and St. Jude. Sylvia has lived a grand life and has had few if any regrets.

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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 26th years.

Best Western Frontier Boulder Creek RV Comfort Inn Coso Geothermal County of Inyo Dow Villa Gardner’s True Value Hardware Sierra Storage Amerigas/Lone Pine Propane Lone Pine Drug Bob White & Family Alex Printing Coca-Cola Donald & Ruby Branson Foundation El Dorado Savings Bank Erick Schat’s Bakkery Inyo Mono Auto Body Shop Inyo Mono Title Co. Lone Pine Rocks & Gifts McDonald’s Pizza Factory Martin Powell Sierra Reader Alta One Federal Credit Union California Writer’s Exchange Carl’s Jr. Crystal Geyser Designs Unlimited

Fendon’s Furniture Gillespie Distributing Inyo Council for the Arts The Inyo Register Joseph’s Bi-Rite Market KIBS/KBOV Mt. Whitney Motel Mt. Whitney Restaurant Portal Preserve Kerry Powell Rio Tinto Minerals Rob Word Barbara Bahl Bishop/Lone Pine Veterinary Hospital Eastern Sierra Shuttle Eastern Sierra Wholesalers Linda & Diamond Farnsworth Carole Freeman & Sharon McBryde Frosty Chalet Nan Gering Art Hickman High Sierra Distributing, Inc. Jake’s Saloon Lee’s Frontier Gas, Liquor & Deli Lisa & Wyatt McCrea Lone Pine Feed & Garden Supplies Merry Go Round Restaurant Miller’s Towing Susan Ortega Rite-Way Pool & Spa Seasons Restaurant

Sierra Wave Portal Motel Timberline Motel Totem Cafe Trails Motel Beverly Vander Wall

Special Thanks to: Bureau of Land Management California Department of Transportation California Highway Patrol Community Printing Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District Inyo County Board of Supervisors & Employees Inyo County Sheriff’s Department Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce Lone Pine Film Festival Volunteers Lone Pine Lions Club Lone Pine Volunteer Fire Department Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Jack Minton Museum of Western Film History Board of Directors: Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Dorothy Bonnefin, Judy Fowler, Jaque Hickman, Chris Langley, Robert Palazzo, Travis Powell, Robert Sigman, Packy Smith, Dean Vander Wall Museum of Western Film History Staff

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