Lone Pine Film Festival Program 2016

Welcome to the 27th Film Festival This year’s theme, “A Vision of the American West,” is a tribute to Western directors.

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elcome to the 27th annual Lone Pine Film Festival. What makes a great Western movie? Some might argue it’s about the characters. Others might maintain it’s the story. Still others might insist it’s the performances. But most would include the visual sweep and impact of big skies, open plains and towering mountains.

What ties all these elements together is a strong creative director, one who controls the film’s artistic and dramatic aspects and guides the cast and technical crew with an overall vision.

We have an exciting selection of events and presentations this year.

The first special event, following our annual reception in the museum on Thursday at 7 p.m., will be with Jim Clark, Hollywood’s go-to guy for trains, who will talk about the technical challenges of bringing largescale sets to the silver screen. On Saturday, with shows at 10 a.m. and noon, Diamond Farnsworth brings 16 Hollywood stunt professionals to perform a live stunt show in the Alabama Hills.

In the museum theater, Mike Nevins will discusses his new book, “They Called the Shots;” Wyatt McCrea will join us for a review of his new book on his grandmother Francis Marion Dee, with moderator Ed Hulse; author and historian David Rothel will be back for two presentations, the first on Westerns and his passion for writing over 15 books on the genre; the second on singing cowboys.

In light of our theme on Western directors, Jay Dee Witney joins us for a discussion with Jay Dee and Mike Nevins on one of Lone Pine’s favorite

Director William Witney was a choreographer of many Western fight sequences.

Long-time film festival supporter, author, and historian Ed Hulse, reviews the heritage of many of the Western stories that came to film with his presentation “Pulp Page to the Silver Screen.” And a perennial favorite, David Matuszak’s “Top Ten” this year will feature “Top Fistfights.”

Hopalong Cassidy loved Lone Pine... and Billy King, now 91, remembers talking with Hoppy about the town, filming here and the local people. Billy, returning to Lone Pine after 78 years, will present his colorful recollections as a 12-year-old featured in four Hoppy films in 1938 and 1939. Billy will join tour guide Don Kelsen for a tour and discussion.

Join Western historian Ed Hulse as he moderates “The Hollywood Western Today,” a panel featuring many of our celebrities, including Turner Classic host, Ben Mankiewicz.

A centerpiece of the weekend is our newly acquired,

Twenty-plus “On Location” tours fill the weekend program with bus and/or caravan tours visiting locations from a variety of films made in our Alabama Hills. All will be led by our knowledgeable and seasoned tour guides.

All this, plus many celebrity book signings at the museum, including Cheryl Rogers Barnett and Petrine Day Mitchum. There will be 30-plus vendors and food suppliers at Lone Pine Park.

Team Roping will be featured on Saturday at the museum rodeo grounds. Sunday will begin with a morning Cowboy Church atthe Anchor Ranch, followed by our famous Sunday Main Street Parade.

The closing campfire, led by cowboy Larry Maurice at Lone Pine Park Sunday evening, will wrap the weekend festivities.

This year the festival hosts three great raffles. Our annual quilt raffle is offering Bonnie Keller’s award-winning design, “Ms. MacDonald’s Farm ( E-I-EI-O).” Also, a beautiful framed offering of two Colt single-action Army

revolvers, one owned by Roy Rogers and the other by Dale Evans; and the third – an original painting titled “Name’s Ford. I Make Westerns,” By Rob Word. All items can be viewed on the festival website.

We look forward to a great weekend. Thank you for being part of it.

Robert Sigman Director

Contents Tribute to Western Directors

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2016 Executive Committee:

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10-year Journey

billy king Remembers

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Schedule of Events Book Signings Raffles Celebrity Guests Lone Pine at the Movies Tours Tour Guides Autograph Pages Celebrity Guests Screenings Cowboy Church Lone Pine Map Museum Merchandise Team Roping Museum Photos

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Joins the Discussion

Ed Hulse: Pulp Fiction/Film

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8 Unlimited free admission to museum and Movie Nights 8 10% discount on all gift shop and online store purchases 8 Invitation to all museum events, concerts, exhibit openings, art show receptions and book signings 8 Opportunity to become a Museum Volunteer 8 Four BONUS one-time visitor tickets 8 Admission to museum Members’ Reception for the June concert 8 20% discount on annual Film Festival tickets 8 50% discount on annual museum Festival Reception 8 Monthly newsletter Join now: www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org

Festival Director Bob Sigman

Sponsorships Jaque Hickman Beverly​Vander Wall Star Wrangler ​Connor Ogburn Membership Nan Gering

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Become a Member of the Lone Pine Film History Museum

Advisor Kerry Powell ​​ Budget Judy Fowler

New Exhibit Features TV Westerns

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Pre-Festival ​Ticket Sales Barbara Bahl ​Susan Ortega Ticket Office Alina Berry Barbara Birmingham Judy and Glen Fowler Linda Kimball Kurt Pauer

Souvenir Program:

Publisher Bob Sigman Editor/Designer Elizabeth Glazner

SAVE THE DATES Concert in the

ROCKS June 3, 2017

28th Annual Lone Pine Film

Festival Oct. 7–9, 2017

Advertising Jaque Hickman Beverly Vander Wall Cover Illustration Judyth Greenburgh

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Museum Salutes Western Directors What makes a great Western movie? Some might argue it’s about the characters. Others might maintain it’s the story. Still others might insist it’s the performances.

Among the greats: directors John Ford (above left, at left), and Quentin Tarantino (above right photo).

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owever, most would include the visual sweep and impact of big skies, open plains and towering mountains. What ties all these elements together is a strong creative director; one who controls the film’s artistic and dramatic aspects and guides the cast and technical crew through an overall vision.

What ties all these elements together is a strong and creative director. A good director is like the captain of a ship and it is he (or she) who ultimately has the responsibility of controlling the film’s artistic and dramatic aspects.

The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking.

A director gives direction to the cast and technical crew; he visualizes the script and creates an overall vision through which a

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film eventually becomes realized and in its best form, brings the audience into the story. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of film production, as well as directing the shooting timetable and meeting deadlines.

America has enjoyed a long list of Western directors that have earned them legendary status with audiences. We present below a list of 25 Western directors, some with extensive filmographies, other’s with a few, but all who made significant contributions in style, story and photography in amplifying the silver screen experience.

Westerns have attracted many of America’s great film directors. Our list of top 25 includes: George Archainbaud, Budd Boetticher, John English,

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John Ford, Henry Hathaway, Burt Kennedy, Henry King, Sam Peckinpah, Lesley Selander, George Stevens, John Sturges, Quentin Tarantino, Wil-

liam Wellman, William Witney and William Wyler to name a few.

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Pulling Stunts in the Alabama Hills The first professional stunt performers were either comedians or crazy people.

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oday, they are highly-trained professionals, and usually benefit from a long tradition of technical movie stunt work passed down to them by actors with decades of experience.

This year’s Festival features Diamond Farnsworth, Hollywood stunt man and coordinator for the NCIS television series, whose famous Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated father Richard Farnsworth worked as an actor and stunt man for 35 years (he was nominated for his acting; they don’t hand out Academy Awards for stunt work).

Diamond is joined by stunt coordinator/director John Moio (both are pictured above), who will direct 20 of their young protegees in a special performance: “A Tribute to the Cowboy Stuntmen,” on location in the Alabama Hills.

More than 400 Western movies have been filmed in the Alabama Hills, and most have included dangerous falls, spills, and fight scenes that drive the unique action of these movie gems. This is the first-ever “stunt tour” to an Alabama Hills location, where Diamond and his friends will perform a series of Western stunts, footfalls, general pranks, and a simulated bar-room fight.

All the participants, including John’s son Ashton,

are Hollywood stunt professionals and are adept at the required safety needs in even the smallest demonstrations.

The group includes both male and female performers.

Absent from the show will be pyrotechnics, live ammunition, or fast-moving vehicles, and there will be no horses or other animals.

With the famous rock as backdrop, viewers will see John and Diamond break down a script and direct some high falls, punches and maybe an air ram or two (that’s when a stunt performer flies through the air and hits something that

makes it look like they were blown up).

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John Moio and Diamond Farnsworth (left photo) direct their stunt crew during a pre-festival exercise in the Alabama Hills.

Photos: E. Glazner

Courses offered by the United Stuntment’s Association: foot falls and rolls, stair falls, Western combat, martial arts, weaponry, precision driving, fire burns, high falls, harness pulls, air ram, mini tramp, wire work, ratchet, rappelling

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Schedule of Events Thursday, October 6 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Museum Gala Opening Night Reception Museum members $10; non-members $20

7 p.m.

Riding the Rails: Trains in Westerns, featuring Jim Clark, Hollywood’s go-to guy for trainsw High school auditorium, admission by Special Event Ticket only.

Friday October 7 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Vendors at The Park

7:30 a.m.

Tour Movie Screening: “Desert Pursuit” High school auditorium, admission by Special Event Ticket only.

8 a.m.

Dick Bann The Hopalaong Legacy – Pre-Tour Discussion Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button or your ticket only.

9:30 a.m.

Mike Nevins They Called The Shots – Action Directors from Silents to Sixties Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button or your ticket only.

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10 a.m.

Tour Movie Screening “Hell Bent For Leather” High school auditorium, admission by Special Event Ticket only.

11:30 a.m.

David Rothel & Ed Hulse: Westerns – Ed Hulse Interviews Author David Rothel Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button only.

1 p.m.

Wyatt McCrea & Ed Hulse: Francis Dee – A Film History Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button only.

2:30 p.m.

Don Kelsen: Pre-tour Conversation with Billy King Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button or Tour Ticket only.

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3 p.m.

Tour Movie Screening “Cattle Annie and Little Britches” Immediately following, please join moderator Rob Word for interview with Director Rupert Hitzig at the high school auditorium. Admission by Festival Button only.

3:30 p.m.

Ed Hulse: Pulp Page to the Silver Screen Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button or Tour Ticket only.

7:30 p.m.

Special Evening Screening: John Ford’s classic silent 1926 film “3 Bad Men” Followed by discussion with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz, Dan Ford, and William Wellman, moderated by Ed Hulse.

High school auditorium, admission by Tour Ticket or Festival Button only.

Schedule of Events Saturday, October 8

SATURDAY NIGHT EVENT: TRIBUTE TO JOHN FORD

7 – 10 a.m.

4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

VFW Breakfast All visitors welcome

Screenings of William Wellman’s “The Oxbow Incident”

7:30 a.m.

7:30 – 10 p.m.

Tour Movie Screening: “Mystery Man” High school auditorium. Admission by Tour Ticket or Festival Button only.

Screenings of John Ford’s “3 Godfathers” followed by discussion with Dan Ford, Rob Word, Bill Wellman and Ben Mankiewicz High school auditorium. Admission by Festival Button only.

8 a.m.

Bob Boze Bell & Larry Floyd The Battle of Little Big Horn - Fact and Film Museum Theater, admission by Film Festival Button only.

9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Vendors at The Park

All-day events

Rodeo Team Roping Rodeo grounds directly behind museum.

10 – 11 a.m; 12 – 1 p.m.

Shootout in the Alabama Hills – A Tribute to Cowboy Stuntmen, Featuring Diamond Farnsworth, John Moio and 20 of Hollywood’s Best Stunt Men and Women Alabama Hills location, travel by bus only. First bus for 10 a.m. show leaves from the museum at 9 a.m. Admission

by Special Event Ticket only.

11:30 a.m.

Hollywood’s Kids: Melinda Carey, Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Wyatt McCrea & Petrine Day Mitchum, with moderator Larry Maurice Museum Theater, admission by Festival Button only.

9:30 p.m. – midnight

7th Annual Cowboy Karaoke Contest; time to cowboy up!

Mt. Whitney Restaurant

1 p.m.

David Matuszak: Top Ten Western Movie Shootouts with Sunday, October 9 David Matuszak Museum Theater admission by Festival 7 – 10 a.m.

Button only.

VFW Breakfast All visitors welcome

5 p.m.

Jay Dee Witney & Mike Nevins discuss William Witney Museum Theater, admission by Film Festival Button only.

7:30 a.m.

Tour Movie Screening: “Rawhide” High school auditorium. Admission by Tour Ticket or Festival Button only.

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Schedule of Events Sunday, October 9 8:30 a.m.

11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Cowboy Church All visitors welcome Spainhower Anchor Ranch

KIBS Remote: Meet & Greet the Festival Celebrities McDonald’s parking lot

9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Vendors at The Park

1 p.m.

Lone Pine Film Festival Parade Main Street

11:30 a.m.

David Rothel presents: There were “Singing Cowboys” Closing Campfire at Dusk – and “cowboys that could Hosted by longtime festival supreally sing” porter, Master of Ceremonies, Q&A will follow, at the Museum Theater. and cowboy poet, Larry Maurice Admission by Festival Button only.

Spainhower Park, north end of town Don’t forget our

Don’t forget our

RAFFLE DRAWING

RAFFLE DRAWING

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See page 11 for details

Heritage Continues

In carrying on tradition, another family member joins our volunteer ranks, though he is not new to the Festival or Lone Pine. Connor Ogburn, grandson of Festival co-founder Dave Holland, will join us this year as head Star Wrangler.

Many of you recall a 6- or 10-year-old Connor climbing the rocks during his mom’s location tours (Melody Holland Ogburn), or selling quilt raffle tickets at the June Concert in the Rocks. Several of the stars may remember a young Connor escorting them with a flashlight up and down hills to and from evening and dinner events.

Looking for a bigger role in the Festival, Connor thought the Star Wrangler job was a good fit. He’ll be helping our guests get to their assigned appointments, events, meals, and to enjoy the sites of Lone Pine. We’re hoping that being 22 years old, we’ve wrangled him in for a long time to come. f

Book Signings at the Museum Mike Nevins, “They Called the Shots: Action Directors From Late Silents to the Late Sixties,” Friday 9:30 a.m.; signing 11 a.m.

David Rothel, “Sidekicks,” “Who Was that Masked Man,” “Tim Holt,” Friday 11:30 a.m.; signing 1 p.m.

Wyatt McCrea, “Frances Dee: A Film History,” Friday 1:30 p.m.; signing 3 p.m.

Petrine Day Mitchum, “Hollywood Hoofbeats: The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television,” signing Friday 4 p.m.

Melinda Carey, “Company of Heroes, My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company,” By Harry Carey Jr., signing Friday 4 p.m.

Ed Hulse, “Blood ’n’Thunder Guide To Pulp Fiction,” Friday 3:30 p.m.; signing 5 p.m.

Bob Boze Bell, “True West Moments:Where Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction,” Saturday at 8 a.m.; signing at 9:30 a.m.

Cheryl Rogers, “Cowboy Princess Rides Again,” signing Saturday 10:30 a.m.

Bob White, “The Tom Mix Cord: Saga of a Western Film Star’s Classic Motorcar,” signing Saturday 11:30 a.m.

Petrine Day Mitchum, “Hollywood Hoofbeats: The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television,” Saturday 11:30 a.m.; signing 1 p.m.

Melinda Carey, “Company of Heroes, My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company,” Saturday 11:30 a.m.; signing 1 p.m.

Cheryl Rogers, “Cowboy Princess Rides Again,” Saturday 1:30 a.m.; signing 1 p.m.

David Matuszak, “The Cowboy’s Trail Guide to Westerns,” Saturday 1 p.m.; signing 2:30 p.m.

Larry Maurice, “Rhyme Rider Trail; Cowboy Poetry from the Eastern Sierra,” signing Saturday 3:30 p.m.

Jay Dee Witney/Mike Nevins, “In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase,” Saturday 5 p.m.; signing 6:30 p.m.

David Rothel, “Singing Cowboys,” Sunday 11:30 a.m.; signing 12:30 p.m.

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Billy King Remembers Hopalong Cassidy

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estival guest Billy King returns to join us for our 27th Lone Pine Film Festival to discuss and reminisce about his moviemaking experiences with actor William Boyd, who played the iconic Hopalong Cassidy.

As a 12-year-old, King costarred in a total of four Hopalong Cassidy films, three produced in the Alabama Hills in the late 1930s.

Billy will meet everyone, on the tour at different Lone Pine location, some new from last year’s festival “Billy King” tour. One of Cassidy’s films, with co-star Billy will

be screened before the tour.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Friday, October 7 at 2:30 in the Museum Theater Don and Billy will screen scenes from Billy’s Hopalong movies.

Billy will answer questiwons following the screening.

The Singing Cowboys

By David Rothel

The Singing Cowboys is a nostalgic, back-in-the-saddle examination of the musical B Westerns of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and the singing cowboys who made them so popular The author, David Rothel, spent a fondly-remembered portion of his youth sitting in the Lincoln Theatre in Elyria, Ohio, where the singing cowboys—Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, and all the rest—played out their adventures and yodeled their songs on the silver screen. Thousands, perhaps millions, of youngsters from that era shared this common experience during their formative years, causing the musical Westerns and their singing cowboy stars to be potent draws at theaters all over the United States and in many other parts of the world.

Available Ocotber 2016 $19.95 These books and other publications are available in the Museum store and online at: www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org/books.

David interviewed all of the living singing cowboys for his book: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Rex Allen, Eddie Dean, Jimmy Wakely, and Monte Hale. They reflected on their careers to provide an insight into the seldom-glimpsed world of the B-Western film. David also includes Tex Ritter (who had died prior to the book) and a chapter on the “unsung singing cowboys” who were lesser known. The book includes selective filmographies, discographies,and many, many memory-jogging photos from the films. First published in 1978, The Singing Cowboys has been out of print for many years. Now, Riverwood Press in association with The Museum of Western Film History has now republished the book in an updated, expanded, and repackaged edition.

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10 Years of Tributes to the Reel West At the Lone Pine Museum, visitors are encouraged to both tour the galleries and venture out into the hills and onto the locations themselves. This is, as the museum’s slogan argues, ‘where the real West becomes the reel West.’

—Atlas Obscura

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hen Jim Rogers trailed into Lone Pine in the mid-1990s, community leaders had a dream: to build a museum that would pay tribute to the Western heroes of the silver screen, especially such legends as Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, and John Wayne.

Jim and his wife Beverly provided support and resources to help the community bring these dreams to reality. He funded the administrative and legal support to initiate the process, and when the community delivered on its promise of acquiring land, Jim immediately put his resources in place to build the structure. Through the hard work of the community, and with the Rogers’ financial support, the museum opened its doors in July, 2006.

In 2015, the museum’s board of directors renamed it the Museum of Western Film History, in recognition of the museum’s growth as an institution representing its diversity of cultural material and documentation.

Today, the museum’s extensive collection of memorabilia and archives is the core of our exhibits, designed to stimulate dialogue about the enduring legacy of our American West.

ing extensive renovation, and when finished, will become the museum’s Research Center, housing an extensive library of books and articles as well as lobby cards, movie stills, and posters. This facility will complement the museum’s archives, providing additional opportunities for outside academic and public research.

In addition to the Research Center, the museum has a publishing arm that supports its mission with complementary works. Our collection continues to grow. Our latest acquisitions include a rare, Technicolor 3 strip film camera, and most recently, a 1928 Lincoln Camera Car (see The next 10 years, and beyond page 25), on display at this year’s 27th Lone Pine Film Festival.

The museum’s collection is one The museum inhabits a unique of the largest and most significant niche of Western history and culture. in the United States. Over the past Although there are many museums 10 years, it has expanded in ways featuring documentation on films beyond its exhibits. The modular out and historic screen figures, the Muback, once used as a welcome center seum of Western Film History is the during pre-construction, is undergo8

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only museum devoted to chronicling Western film history and its impact on American culture.

We’re forever appreciative of the generosity and friendship of Jim and Beverly Rogers, and of all who have contributed to the museum’s foundation and operation. It is evocative of countless memories for visitors – for grandfathers sharing with their sons and grandsons memories of Saturday matinee B Westerns when they see their favorite cowboys’ movie posters, or a watch from a cereal carton, a comic book, a bicycle, a badge – or one of thousands of other collectibles they remember from their youth.

The Museum of Western Film History is our Lone Pine community treasure. It teaches us, as Atlas Obscura observed:

...to see both time and space in new ways – ways that blend the past, the present, and the future through tangible objects and material geographies… the site intentionally juxtaposes fictional narratives with real spaces, highlighting the ways in which places are simultaneously fixed and mutable as they represent both 100 years of American history and futuristic science fiction. f

Turner Classic Host Joins the Discussion

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en Mankiewicz is known the world over for his knowledge of classic films, and this October, he’ll join a master class of fellow film buffs at the 2016 Lone Pine Film Festival Perhaps best known as host of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Mankiewicz will be among the celebrity guests to weigh in on the topic of the Hollywood Western today, during a panel discussion moderated by historian and author Ed Hulse on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., following a special screening of John Ford’s classic silent of 1926,“3 Bad Men.” Mankiewicz is joined by Dan Ford, and William Wellman in the high school auditorium.

Mankiewicz is a producer and actor. He will add plenty to the discussion and to the

was a successful screenwriter who penned the James Bond films “Live and Let Die” and “Diamonds Are Forever,” as well as “Dragnet” and “Ladyhawke.” Mankiewicz’s great-uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, wrote “All About Eve,” “Cleopatra,” and “The Three Godfathers,” a 1936 Western that was remade in the Lone Pine area in 1948 with John Wayne.

His grandfather, Herman Ben Mankiewicz J. Mankiewicz, wrote a little Lone Pine Film Festival in movie called “Citizen Kane” general. Filmmaking is in his with Orson Welles.

DNA, and reporting on films Mankiewicz has of course and filmmaking has been in his blazed his own trail in the wheelhouse since 1998, when industry, acting as the occahe joined TV station WAMI in sional fill-in host for TCM’s Miami, Florida, to serve as the full-time host Robert Osborne, anchor of the station’s daily in addition to his weekend gig news magazine show. presenting classic movies on His cousin, Tom Mankiewicz, the popular channel.

He is also a regular fill-in and co-host of the YouTube talk show “The Young Turks,” and hosts two of its spinoff shows, TYT Sports and What the Flick?! He also had the distinction, along with Ben Lyons, of having been selected in 2008 to replace the ailing and much-beloved movie critic Roger Ebert and his co-host Richard Roeper when it was time for Ebert to retire from his show, At the Movies.

Naturally, with a resume and pedigree like his, Mankiewicz commands attention and respect when he discusses film – and so it is a true treat for visitors of the 2016 Lone Pine Film Festival to be able to hear his insights into, predictions about, and opinions on the modern Western. f

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Riding the Rails With the ‘Train Man’

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veteran of more than 250 films, engineer and train coordinator Jim Clark has a Hollywood career that has brought him into association with some of the biggest train films and biggest stars in Hollywood. His film milieu includes “The Lone Ranger,” “Wild, Wild, West,” “Under Siege Two,” “Fast and the Furious,” “Water For Elephants” and “Into the West.”

Since 1926’s “The Great K&A Train Robbery,” audiences have been thrilled by the great locomotives, as

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well as movie cars traveling 70 mph careening through the streets.

Join Jim Thursday, October 6 at 7 p.m. at the

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Lone Pine High School Auditorium as he discusses the technical challenges of building and bringing large-scale sets to the silver

screen. Jim’s presentation will include film clips of two dozen movies, and he’ll take our questions about being not only the Train Man, but also a fast-car afficionado for Hollywood as well. In the early 1960s, Jim raced Dodge and Plymouth cars for a living. His racecars usually had a picture of a train painted on the side.

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Raffles Unique Items Offered In This Year’s Raffle “Ms. MacDonald’s Farm (E-I-E-I-O)” Bonnie Keller’s quilt design has won many awards and is featured on many national quilting websites. It’s 82-by-86-inches with brightly colored animals using interesting fabrics, and features the incorporation of 12 major patterns of favorite creatures enjoying life on the farm.

“Name’s Ford. I Make Westerns,” by Rob Word This beautiful 12-by-16-inch mixed-media original painting, created by producer and western artist Rob Word, is framed to complement the style. Word has captured acclaimed director John Ford against one of his favorite backgrounds, Monument Valley (above).

Commemorative Dale Evans & Roy Rogers 45 Colts The Colt Single Action Army, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Tribute Commemorative Revolvers (above) by America Remembers are 45 Colts with 5.5-inch barrel, high-polished steel with gold-plated cylinder and screws, gold inlay “Roy Rogers King of the Cowboys” banner engraved on left of barrel, “R R” on frame, and “Dale Evans Queen of the West” on right of receiver.

1938 Supertone Guitar, Harmony Gene Autry Round-up Commissioned by Sears, Harmony built this standard-sized guitar for Autry. Featuring a spruce top and reddish mahogany-finished birch body, the Supertone Roundup was stencil-painted with artwork showing a cowboy riding on a cattle roundup, swinging a lariat above his head. The Gene Autry signature was painted at the bottom of the scene.This unique collectible comes in original canvas case.

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Celebrity Guests JIM CLARK

TRAIN MAN Known as “The Train Man,” Jim

is a veteran of more than 250 films. He has served as engineer, train coordinator, and train stunt sequence designer on such blockbusters as “The Lone Ranger,” “Wild, Wild, West,” “Under Siege Two,” “Fast and the Furious,” “Water For Elephants,” and “Into The West.”

Jim will give a short history of trains in Western movies and talk about how trains are characters in films in and of themselves. He’ll explain the technical challenges of working with trains in action sequences in which they star, show film clips, and answer questions.

MYSTERY MAN

FRANCIS M. NEVINS

thor of mystery novels and short stories which have appeared in leading mystery anthologies.

Among his recent books are “Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection” (2013) and the Edgar-nominated “Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law” (2014).

GRANDFATHERED IN WYATT MCCREA Wyatt McCrea is the oldest grandchild of the late actor Joel McCrea and his actress wife Frances Dee. He’s the co-owner of Third Point Productions, which produces television content, commercials and music videos, and is executive producer for several television projects currently under development.

Most recently Wyatt was featured as deputy Walt Tyler in the Western feature “Canyon Trail,” has appeared on the cable series “Call 911,” on the History Channel’s series “Big History,” and various commercials.

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William Wellman Junior

HOLLYWOOD SON BATTLE EXPERT LARRY FLOYD Larry is President/Director of the Williamsburg Film Festival in Virginia, a member of the Company of Military Historians, a 50 veteran of the NorthSouth Skirmish Asso. and a member of the Board of Advisers Great Bridge Battlefield Foundation, and a longtime collector of antique firearms. He shares his knowledge of The Battle of the Little Big Horn and General Custer, and the many films that have been produced about the historic event.

William Wellman Jr. son of Hollywood’s legendary director, “Wild Bill” Wellman, spent most of his childhood around filmdom’s celebrities, including Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Carole Lombard, Frank Capra, Lana Turner, John Payne, Jennifer Jones, Red Skelton, Peter Lawford, and William ‘Hopalong Cassidy’ Boyd.

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.

Wellman is credited with over 180 movies and television shows, 17 stage productions and some 200 commercial and industrial films.

TRUE WESTERNER BOB

BOZE BELL In 1999, Bob Boze Bell bought True West magazine (published since 1953) and moved the editorial offices to Cave Creek, Arizona. Bob has published and illustrated groundbreaking books

on Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday and his series on Western gunfights is titled Classic Gunfights.

Bob’s subjects include but are not limited to commercial illustration, Cowboys, Figure/Figurative, Western Cowboys, Indians, and horses and mediums include gouache, scratchboard, oil and watercolor.

Celebrity Guests western historian

David Rothel

David Rothel has interviewed dozens of show business personalities for his radio program Nostalgia Newsbreak. He’s produced 13 books and has interviewed Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other big stars. David’s book on Western film locations, “An Ambush of Ghosts,” was twice featured on Entertainment Tonight.

He’s been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” the BBC’s Omnibus television series, and in 2012 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Williamsburg Film Festival.

He and his wife Nancy live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains

Larry Maurice cowboy

POET Larry Maurice has spent the last 20 years as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada, and is Lone Pine’s favorite cowboy poet.

DIAMOND farnsworth PULLING STUNTS

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

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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 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s. He has performed for two U.S. presidents and entertained countless celebrities including Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, to name a few.

HOLLYWOOD NATURAL

Jay Dee Witney His father was director William Witney; his mother was actress Maxine Doyle.

Director John English was his godfather, and actress Virginia Carroll was his

godmother. Her husband was actor Ralph Byrd (TV’s original Dick Tracy), but to young Jay Dee, he was simply “Uncle Ralph.”

Jay Dee has worked in television and film, and as an old friend of Lone Pine, he joins us this year to talk about his dad’s career as one of Hollywood’s most prolific directors.

ROGERS' DAUGHTER

Cheryl Rogers-Barnett Cheryl Rogers Barnett is the daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

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Billy King

As a boy, Billy worked in four Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, three of which were shot in the spectacular Alabama Hills, opposite William Boyd as Hoppy and George Hayes as Windy. Do not miss the opportunity to meet Mr. King !

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‘ACTION!’ Lone Pine in the Movies This year’s popular series is focused on some great but lesser-known Western directors

and “Senor Daredevil” shot in Lone Pine and Death Valley.

Hopalong Cassidy master Francis “Mike” Nevins spins the history of Spencer Gordon Bennet, another forgotten silent ou will not be able to find such Western director. Beginning in in-depth analysis and research the Hudson River for the serial anywhere else on Albert S. Rogel, “Hurricane Hutch,” he went on Spencer Gordon Bennet, Victor to direct 100 serials and many B Abramson, and John Sturges. It’s Westerns. If you want to have a shame because these professions a sense of what life was like for turned in a lifetime of work that filmmakers in the early days, stands the test of time.

Nevins’ essay is brilliant.

Indeed, some of the best WestSam Sherman’s exploration ern film writers have taken up from Lone Pine and Iverson Mov- of the career of director Victor the challenge of capturing these Adamson, who acted as Denver ie Ranch in Southern California.

Hollywood-overlooked great We begin with Richard “Dick” Dixon, is a wonderful visit to Povdirectors. Richard Bann, Sam Bann’s masterful and extended ex- erty Row and filmmaking at the Sherman, Christopher Langley, ploration of Albert S. Rogell. Rog- “bottom of the barrel.” His many Francis “Mike” Nevins, Ed Hulse ell began in Spokane, Washington films often left the audience laughall have dug deeply into both their and quickly moved to Hollywood ing, but that was what filmmaking lives and their movies to give was all about in the early days. to learn his trade. Eventually you a list of must see Westerns.

Museum of Western Film Hisworking in B Westerns, he created Photographer Don Kelsen has some memorable film adventures tory historian Christopher Langcreated an analysis via images of ley recounts in detail the making , including the Lone Pine silents: Hopalong Cassidy’s film” Mystery “Men of Daring,” “Rough and of five films by overlooked direcMan” that combined locations Ready,” “The Unknown Cavalier,” tor John Sturges, two Westerns in

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Death Valley and three in Lone Pine. William Holden in “Escape From Fort Bravo,” Randolph Scott in “The Walking Hills,” or Clint Eastwood in “Joe Kidd” are examples in how Sturges got the very best to ride the range for him.

Two “must reads” include Ed Hulse on the history of the Lone Pine Museum with his essay celebrating the 10th anniversary called “Ten Years and Growing,” and photographer Don Kelsen’s photo essay on “Mystery Man,” with locations in Lone Pine and Iverson, explores the business of “location cheating.” Anyone would agree that’s a mighty long way for a bullet to travel when half the gun fight is in Lone Pine and the other at Iversons.

Longer, smarter and with more rare, historic pictures, this version of Lone Pine in the Movies is a must-have and inexpensive at twice the price, Buy yours today at the Lone Pine Film Festival or museum. f

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he Lone Pine Film Festival is once again honored to welcome one of the world’s pre-eminent film scholars to help pay tribute to the classic movies and serials that helped shape Hollywood.

Ed Hulse, a journalist and film historian for more than 30 years, will be participating in several panels and presentations during the 2016 Festival. Of special note is Hulse’s discussion with actor Wyatt McCrea in the Museum of Western Film History Friday at 1 p.m. McCrea’s grandmother was actress Frances Dee, who is also the subject of Hulse’s newest book, “Frances Dee: A Film History.”

Film fans can also join Hulse in the Museum Theater Friday at 3:30 p.m. for “Pulp Page

to the Silver Screen” as he chronicles the history of dime novels of the 1890s and their destiny with Hollywood.

Hulse has written at length about dime novels that were adapted for the silver screen, including in his books “The Blood ‘N Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps” and “Distressed Damsels and Masked Marauders.” He is also the author of “The Films of Betty Grable” and “Filming the West of Zane Grey,” in addition to countless articles,

essays, and reviews of films published in such mainstream periodicals as Premiere, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker and the New York Times. His esteemed work has also appeared in trade journals such as Variety, Millimeter, Video Business, and This Week in Consumer Electronics.

Hulse’s writing has been read the world, over. His work was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group during the late 1980s and he was a contributing editor to the definitive Leonard Maltin Movie Encyclopedia. From

2000-2007, Hulse was the lead critic and celebrity interviewer for the Film/Video section of Barnes&Noble.com.

The Lone Pine Film Festival will once again benefit from Hulse’s vast knowledge and interviewing skills when he moderates the 2016 celebrity panel as guests discuss “The Hollywood Western Today.”

Hulse has participated in the Festival for many years, and in addition to moderating panels and hosting discussions, he has edited the annual Film Festival journal, Lone Pine in the Movies.

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Ansel Adams: In the Footsteps of the Master Guide: Catherine Kravitz Sunday: 8 – 11 a.m.

Ansel Adams said, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” Join Catherine Kravitz, museum staff and docent, as she follows 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 the multifaceted and visionary photographer.

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Audie Murphy: A Real Reel Hero Guides: Ross Schnioffsky and Warren Davey Friday: 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Saturday: 3 – 5:30 p.m.

Screening: “Hell Bent for Leather” at high school auditorium on Friday at 10 a.m. only.

Re-trace the steps of one of America’s great war heroes as we take you to where he made three of his most interesting movies: “Hell Bent for Leather” (1959), “Posse from Hell” (1960), and “Showdown” (1962)w.

Murphy was a much-decorated American soldier who served in the European Theater during World War II, for which he received the Medal of Honor.

He appeared in 44 American films and also composed country music. Murphy made 33 Hollywood Westerns, and “To Hell and Back” (1955), which was based on his 1949 autobiography. He died in a plane crash in 1971 and was interred, with full military honors, at Arlington National Cemetery.

Warren and Ross will show you sites from Murphy’s films and where some of the movies’ most thrilling stunts were performed. The tour will incorporate some “Audie audio.”

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Billy King Remembers ‘Desert Pursuit’ Movie Location Tour Hopalong Cassidy Guide: Don Kelsen Friday: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Special screening: Scenes from King’s Hopalong movies Friday at 2:30 p.m in the museum theater, followed by a Q&A

Guide: Don Kelsen Friday: 9 – 11 a.m.

Special screening: “Desert Pursuit” will be shown at 7:30 a.m. Friday at the high school auditorium

Billy King returns for our 27th Film Festival to discuss and reminisce about his movie-making experiences with William Boyd.

As a 12-year-old, King co-starred in a total of four Hopalong Cassidy films, three filmed in the Alabama Hills in the late 1930s.

King’s good friend, “Hopalong” John Gilliland, will join the tour to re-visit the Lone Pine locations where his movies with Hoppy were made. Gilliland will be wearing his accurate reproduction of Hoppy’s outfit as it appeared in 1937 and 1938, and will be available to pose for location photos with Billy and the tour guests.

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Plot: Prospector Wayne Morris, accompanied by Virginia Grey, travels on horseback to San Bernardino to settle down and get married. In his journey through Death Valley (played by the Alabama Hills), he battles a trio of thieves riding camels, who attempt to steal the gold he’s panned from Lone Pine creeks.

“Desert Pursuit,” directed by George Blair, employs some picturesque areas of the Alabama Hills that make for great shootouts.

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Great Western Directors: Henry Hathaway Tour Directing John Wayne Movie Location Tour Guide: Mike Royer Friday: 9 – 11:30 a.m. bus tour Saturday: 2:30 – 5 p.m.

This location tour includes comments on the various great Western directors Wayne and others worked with, and their contributions to the art of the Western genre. We 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 up and where train tunnels were dug in the hills that represented the mighty Andes.

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The ‘Gunga Din’ Tour Guide: Jerry Finney and Charles Morfin Friday: 3:30 6 p.m.

Our classic Gunga Din Tour highlights the filming of the movie that took place in the summer and fall of 1938, and is still the largest production ever filmed in the Lone Pine area.

The production company created huge sets, hired more than 1,000 extras, and built a tent city to house the cast and crew. It is one of the rare films of its era to stand up well to the passage of time. Visit the site of the temple, the village of Tanta Pur, battle scene locations, and see the location of the bridge crossed by the elephants.

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Guides: Ross Schnioffsky and Warren Davey Sunday: 9 11:30 a.m.

Screening: “Rawhide” at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at the Lone Pine High School auditorium Henry Hathaway (1898 – 1985) started as a child actor and worked through the ranks to become one of Hollywood’s top A-feature directors, with an impressive directing career spanning more than 40 years and 67 films across many genres.

Some of his best were filmed in Lone Pine. Ross and Warren will lead you through the rocks and canyons to locations where Hathaway filmed such classics as “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer” (1935 starring Gary Cooper); “Rawhide” (1951 starring Tyrone Power), “From Hell to Texas (1958 starring Don Murray); and “How the West was Won” (Debbie Reynolds, 1962).

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Hopalong Cassidy Original Bar 20 Ranch Guide: Richard W. Bann Friday: 9 – 11 a.m.

Saturday: 9 – 11 a.m.

Special:A pre-tour overview of the the Hopalong legacy will take place in the museum theater at 8 a.m. Friday only.

We visit the still-working cattle ranch that served as the original “Bar 20” in the first and best Hopalong Cassidy feature films, made in 1935. You’ll see the historic and beautiful Lubken Ranch, whose rich movie history was unknown until 2011. After a video compilation of Western excerpts, we travel up into the splendors of Lone Pine scenery via car caravan in search of the ghosts of cowboy heroes like Gene Autry, Randolph Scott, Bob Steele, Tim Holt, Ken Maynard, Fred Humes, Gabby Hayes, Richard Arlen, Big Boy Williams, Bill Cody, Hoot Gibson, Tom Mix, Johnny Mack Brown, Tom Tyler. Even “Bonanza” was shot here.

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The Lone Pine Back Lot Tour Guides: Burt and Donna Yost Friday: 9 – 11 a.m.

Saturday: 9 – 11 a.m.

Sunday: 9 – 11 a.m.

The Lone Pine Back Lot Tour will visit locations seldom seen by our visitors; a MUST tour for movie buffs! All locations we visit are still standing, just as they were in the movies.

We will travel up Tremors Pass to visit the Tim Holt cabin and a picture stop of Hoppy’s cabin. Then we descend down the Bar 20 Trail to Movie Lake and follow an old desert trail to a ghost town and mining town where many movies were made with such screen legends as 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, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Palance, Patrick Wayne, Robert Lansing, Don Murray, and many others.

We will visit locations where more than 30 movies were made.

Hidden Lone Pine at its best!

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North-South Tour Guide: Melody HollandOgburn Friday: 12 – 2:30 p.m.

‘Mystery Man’ Movie Location Movie Tour Guide: Don Kelsen Saturday: 9 – 11 a.m.

Screening: ‘Mystery Man’ will be shown at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the high school auditorium Plot: In the 1944 film, Hopalong Cassidy is on a cattle drive, as the hands and herd from the Bar 20 are menaced by a faceless villain and his band of outlaws.

Rustling and mistaken identity are the force behind this romp through the Alabama Hills, which includes some scenes filmed by director George Archainbaud in Chatsworth, Calif., at the Iverson Movie Ranch.

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You’ll see a lot of the Alabama Hills on this scenic drive. The tour travels the length of the area and famous locations of such movies as “Gunga Din,” “Westward Ho,” and “Wagons Westward.” 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 the Hoppy and Gene Autry rocks. View the location of “Rawhide,” 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.

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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 been thrilled by the breathtaking beauty of the Eastern High Sierra “Sunrise Tour.”

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Silent Hoofbeats: Where the Early Directors Worked Guide: Chris Langley Friday: 3 – 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

As we celebrate the great Western directors at this year’s film festival, film historian Chris Langley takes us back to the silver screen silent era to pay tribute to the great silent directors, including Albert S. Rogell, Clifford Smith, Lynn Reynolds, Ray Enright and others.

Tour pre-1930 movie locations where the likes of Tom Mix, Jack Hoxie, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Fred Humes rode in the Alabama Hills before the advent of sound.

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photographer’s dream, everyone can enjoy this early morning spectacle. See why directors and cinematographers couldn’t get enough of the spectacular mornings in what Ansel Adams called the Range of Light. Watch the morning sun ignite the peak of Mt. Whitney and bring the Alabama Hills to life.

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Director William Wellman From DIRECTORS, page 2

These 25 directors are featured in the Museum’s new Great Directors of American Western Films exhibit that is being developed.

The listing is alphabetical, and the review is not intended to rate the directors, but to identify those whose work has made a dramatic impact on the theater-going community and American culture in the Western genre: George Archainbaud Budd Boetticher Robert Bradbury Andre deToth B Reeves Eason

Clint Eastwood John English John Ford Henry Hathaway Howard Hawks Lambert Hillyer Joe Kane Burt Kennedy Joseph H. Lewis Anthony Mann Andrew McLaglen Sam Peckinpah Lesley Selander George Sherman John Sturges Quentin Tarantino Raoul Walsh William Wellman Simmon Wincer William Witney f

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Meet Your Tour Guides Richard W. Bann is a regular essayist for Lone Pine at the Movies and a major source for 16mm prints for the Festival during the last 20-plus years. He’s also a film historian and author of books on Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, W.C. Fields, Hal Roach, and John Wayne.

Bann started his career as a CPA testifying on behalf of William Boyd Enterprises with respect to Hopalong Cassidy films litigation, and later was vice-president of Blackhawk Films, Inc. More recently he served as consultant to CMG Worldwide, the marketing and licensing agent representing the estates of Marilyn Monroe, Mark Twain, Babe Ruth, James Dean, Vince Lombardi, Jackie Robinson, etc.

For the past 30 years Bann has been library consultant to a European film and TV company, Kirch Media GmbH and related entities, where he spent $4 million restoring and preserving the Hal Roach Studios 35mm nitrate film collection. Bann’s knowledge of movies and Western heritage is always kindly shared in Lone Pine.

Jerry Finney and Charles Morfin are excited to share their passion for film with you on the tour. Jerry is a former aerospace employee, master sculptor and film historian, and an expert on British uniforms. He can recite the entire poem from the 1939 classic “Gunga Din” from memory. Charles Morfin is author of “Location Filming in the Alabama Hills.” He 20

Chris Langley is a lifelong educator, and has lived in and studied the Mojave Desert for over 40 years. As a writer/ historian, he is the collaborator of fine art photographer Osceola Refetoff on “High & Dry: Dispatches from Don Kelsen has been learn- the Land of Little Rain” at ing about Alabama Hills’ film desertdispatches.com. locations since the first festiLangley’s work appears in val in 1990. Inspiration for the Inyo Register, the Sun pinpointing filming locations Runner, and photographer. comes from Don’s associaKCET’s Artbound. Other tion with Festival co-founder publications include a history Dave Holland and their work of Lone Pine, a cultural histogether on Dave’s first video tory of Mount Whitney, and “On Location in Lone Pine.” “From Jayhawkers to Jawas: A Short History of Filming in Catherine Kravitz is the Death Valley.” He’s founder collections manager and of the Alabama Hills Stewdocent of the Museum of ardship Group.

Western Film History. When asked if she would like to Larry Maurice has spent create a tour of the different the last 35 years as a cowboy, sites Ansel Adams visited and horse wrangler and packer photographed, she jumped in the Eastern Sierra and the at the opportunity. Using her high desert of Nevada. You’re skills as a former researcher, likely to find him leading a she took 2.5 months and string of mules into the back25 books to learn about the country, on a horse drive in iconic photographer. An exthe Owens Valley, or workperienced art gallery owner, ing with longhorn cattle in Catherine loves to talk about Virginia City. A sought-after Adams’ amazing Eastern entertainer for his Cowboy Sierra location work.

Poetry and also for his ability to breathe life into the history of the American West. Larry wwis also president of Film Noir Tours, a film historian, and museum volunteer.

Charles resides in the nearby town of Independence where other movies were filmed on location.

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has been a Lone Pine regular since the festival’s beginning in 1989.

Melody Holland Ogburn is the daughter of festival cofounder Dave Holland.

Having led guests on bus tours since the first year, she See GUIDES, page 21

Tour Guides From GUIDES, page 20

notes first-time attendees on at least one of her tours each weekend.

Mike Royer was drawn to Southern California in 1965 for a career in comics, and spent 14 years in comic books, comic strips, and TV animation. He has inked many great pages including “Magnus,” “Robot Fighter.”

“Tarzan,” “Star Wars Speed Buggy,” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids.” He spent the next 14 years at the Walt Disney Company, in book publishing, comic books and strips, and all forms of theme park and merchandise licensing.

A longtime Lone Pine Festival participant, Mike has a diverse knowledge of filmmaking in the area and brings a passion for Western heritage to all his tours.

their working lives in education, Warren and Ross have held on to their sanity, barely.

Ross, who loves making little documentaries on cinema history, is a faculty librarian at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Warren, who loves reading about all things Western, is an elementary school librarian. Both happily maintain disorganized lives.

Burt and Donna Yost discovered Lone Pine and the Lone Pine Film Festival in 1990. Fans of old Westerns, they started making trips to Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills 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 made many friends in Lone Pine and have become well versed in the AlRoss Schnioffsky and abama’s and Eastern Sierra’s Warren Davey live just movie locations. Their annual west of Lone Pine in the little festival tours are always a sellfrontier town of Melbourne, out, especially the Back Lot Australia, where TV Westerns Tour. Burt and Donna call arrived in 1956. They have Santa Barbara home, when loved them ever since. not in Lone Pine. f Despite spending most of

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Museum Acquires 1928 Lincoln Camera Car

By Bob Sigman

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he museum has been searching for a vintage camera car for many months that showcases filming technology as used in Western movies. Many camera cars were used in the 1930s along Movie Road in the Alabama Hills, to film Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and many others.

In mid-June a museum supporter, Jack Minton, called to tell us a 1928 Lincoln camera car was going up for auction in Shawnee, Oklahoma. A few calls and a little research with the The Henry Ford museum in Detroit helped clarify the car’s provenance.

Built March 6, 1928, the car was production No. 49706, with body type 10-1957 and noted as a 147A, which indicates the car was originally a 4-door, Dietrich-designed sedan, with the original color a cobalt blue. It would have had an 8-cylinder

Many camera cars were used in the 1930s along Movie Road in the Alabama Hills, to film Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and others flathead engine, but somewhere in the 1950s the engine was replaced with a Cadillac 331 with a Carter quad.

The car’s suspension was revised to carry the extra weight of rails, platforms and equipment that were mounted, and the universal replaced with a heavy-duty International truck rear end.

The research staff at The Henry Ford are helping to determine further stats on the car. (Note: production records indicate 4204 Dietrich-designed cars were sold in the 1920s – 1,023 in 1928, the last year they were produced).

The 1928 Lincoln was once owned by Hollywood studio RKO, and has been in the possession of collectors for many years, most recently Clifton Hill, who has been collecting cars

for more than 50 years. It was owned by Pat Hustis, stuntman and legendary camera car pioneer famous for his chase scene work on “Bullitt” (1968) with Steve McQueen. It was also used in the 1981 Orion Pictures film “Under the Rainbow,” and the 1988 Sony Tri-Star film, “Sunset,” with Bruce Willis and James Garner.

The 88-year-old Lincoln was in pretty good condition; some rust, but few areas were rusted through. We are told the car has not run in more than 20 years (our engine guru, Richard Wren, is going to see what he can

do about getting it running again). Only the left rear stoplight was missing. The cabin and dash is missing wood, but the gauges look pretty good. Though the back window is missing, both door windows work remarkably well, and if you look closely you will see they are chain driven.

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Camera Car

Our newest acquisition gets a fresh paint job. See more photos of the 1928 Lincoln camera car online: www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org

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The Museum of Western Film History . . . invites you to collect all the back issues of “Lone Pine in the Movies” and also please consider the catalogue of Western history books published for the Museum by Riverwood Press.

These publications are all available at the Museum Gift Shop or order online at www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org www.MuseumofWesternFilmHistory.org

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Screenings Friday, October 9 (Monogram, 1952) 72 m Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey; Director: George Blair 7:30 a.m.

(Arkansas P T, 1992) 24 min Featuring Robert (Bob) Birchard 9 a.m.

Hell Bent for Leather (Universal, 1960) 82 m Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr; Director: George Sherman 10 a.m.

Hidden Valley

3 Godfathers

Joe Kidd

(Fox, 1926) 92 m George O’Brien, Olive Borden; Director: John Ford 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 10 Mystery Man

(UA, 1944) 58 m William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers; Director: George Archainbaud 7:30 a.m.

(Columbia, 1950) 69 m Gene Autry, Pat Buttram; Director: John English 9 a.m.

(Republic, 1956) 85 m Macdonald Carey, Skip Homeier; Director: William Witney 11:45 a.m.

The Ox-Bow Incident

(20th Century-Fox, 1949) 95 m Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt; Director: Edwin L. Marin 9:15 a.m.

3 Bad Men

The Blazing Sun

Stranger at My Door

Canadian Pacific

(PDC, 1925) 60 m Harry Carey, Trilby Clark; Director: Edmund Mortimer 2:30 p.m.

Desert Pursuit

Bronco Billy: The First Reel Cowboy

The Prairie Pirate

(20th Century-Fox, 1943) 75 m Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews; Director: William Wellman 4 p.m.

(Monogram, 1932) 57 m Bob Steele, Gertrude Messinger; Director: Robert N. Bradbury 11 a.m.

Stagecoach Kid

(RKO, 1949) 60 m Tim Holt, Richard Martin; Director: Lew Landers 10:30 a.m.

Trail of the Vigilantes

(Universal, 1940) 75 m Franchot Tone, Warren William; Director: Allan Dwan 1:30 p.m.

The Roundup

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

(Paramount, 1941) 90 m Richard Dix, Preston Foster; Director: Lesley Selander 12:15 p.m.

(Universal, 1981) 97 m Burt Lancaster, Scott Glenn, Diane Lane; Director: Lamont Johnson 3 p.m.

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(MGM, 1948) 106 m John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr.; Director: John Ford 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 11 Rawhide

(20th Century-Fox, 1951) 89 m Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward; Director: Henry Hathaway 7:30 a.m.

(Universal, 1972) 88 m Clint Eastwood, John Saxon, Robert; Director: John Sturges 2:15 p.m.

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Congregants gather for Sunday Cowboy Church services with the High Sierra as a backdrop.

Cowboy Church is a Festival Tradition Retired Pastor Ben Sparks returns in 2016 to deliver the sermon for the popular Sunday morning Cowboy Church service, scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 9 at the historic Anchor Ranch.

Cowboy Church is as much a tradition of the Lone Pine Film Festival as the famous movie location tours. Retired Pastor Sparks served the Lone Pine community for more than 30 years.

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the Museum, was the Ponderosa filminglocation for television’s “Bonanza,” the “Ho palong Cassidy” movies and countless other classic films Pastor Sparks’ personalized, Western sermons are enjoyed in the special amphitheater-like setting beneath the Eastern Sierra and Mount Whitney.

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in the 1950s and 1960s with about 120 of them in production, depending on how you define a Western.

The peak year for television Westerns was 1960, with 30 such shows airing during prime-time.

Top-rated shows included, “Gunsmoke,” “Rifleman,” “Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel” and “Bonanza” to name a few.

In its issue of April 30th, 1959, Time magazine reported that “Last week eight of the top ten shows on TV were horse operas.

The networks have saddled up no fewer than 35 of the bangtail brigade, and 30 of them are riding the dollar-green range of prime night time (from 7:3o to 10 p.m.).

hen the popularity of television exploded in the late 1940s and 1950s, Westerns quickly became a staple of smallscreen entertainment. William Boyd, the star of the Hopalong Cassidy movies, made a huge fortune buying up the rights to the films and offering them to TV stations for broadcast.

The earliest Western series made for TV were The Lone Ranger (1949-57), The Cisco Kid (1950-56), and The Gene Autry Show (1950–56). Many theatrical B Westerns were also aired on TV alongside these shows. In time, the Hoppy-Gene-and-Roy kind of Western was superseded by new “adult” series of Westerns like Cheyenne and Wyatt Earp.

Soon family Westerns joined the prime time schedules across all the networks.

The Museum’s exhibit entitled TV Westerns: An American Love Affair provides an overview of the TV Western culture, highlighting the most popular series and providing biographical history, pictures and memorabilia from this great period.

In the beginning…

Edwin S. Porter’s Western, “The Great Train Robbery” in 1903, captured the imagination of audiences on the silver screen and initiated the “Western” genre.

In mid-30s radio extended the adventure and excitement into the living rooms of American families.

Westerns became a defining genre of American film culture, a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier which marked the borderline between civilization and the wilderness.

Some would say that early TV Western series’ helped define America as a nation; teaching the values of honesty and integrity, of hard work, of racial tolerance, of determination to succeed, and of justice for all. They were, in a sense, modern morality plays where heroes, strong, reliable,

TV Westerns grow up

clear-headed and decent, fought their adversaries in the name of justice. At the show’s end - moral lessons had been taught and learned.

Saturday morning “B” Westerns at the Cinema dominated the 30s and 40s and the introduction and mass appeal of television provided the forum for introducing a reformatted versions.

The first TV Western premiering on June 24, 1949, Hopalong Cassidy, played by William Boyd, and his horse Topper, rode across the small screen and into the homes of Western film lovers in the form of the reformatted Cassidy theatrical films (1935-44) that were cut down to less than an hour’s running time each.

Soon Hoppy would be joined by made-for-TV series like The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, The Roy Rogers Show, The Gene Autry

Show and Wild Bill Hickok.

As television became popular in the late 1940’s and 1950’s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite. The juvenile market, for whom the ultimate hero was the cowboy, transitioned to the smorgasbord of free TV Westerns versus that offered on the Saturday Silver screen.

Most of the very early TV Westerns offered morality plays for the juvenile audience. Their plots were usually quite simple--good versus bad, black hat versus white, heroes riding wonder horses---and right always won out over wrong.

As those kids grew older their tastes changed leading to the development and creation of adult TV Westerns. These new programs appealed to a both an older, and younger audience.

TV Westerns reigned supreme

In the mid-Fifties (1955-1956 Season) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp premiered on ABC September 6, 1955, and was the first successful “adult” Western.

Later that same week, September 10, Gunsmoke premiered on Saturday night beginning its 20-year run on CBS and a few days later on Tuesday September 20, Cheyenne, the first hour-long TV Western, premiered. Soon afterwards, Sugarfoot (1957 to 1961) and Maverick (1957 – 1962) followed.

As fast as you could say, “they went thataway, pardner” the airwaves were filled with Westerns.

Other leading adult Westerns of the era included Have Gun, Will Travel, Tales of Wells Fargo, Laramie, Wagon Train, Rawhide and The Rifleman.

The Rifleman (1958-63) and Bonanza (1959-73) were among the first TV Westerns to have a “family” as the core of the show. Previous Westerns had numerous characters but no family unit.

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By the Sixties, the Westerns, led by ratings winner Bonanza, begin broadcasting in color and, in the case of The Virginian broadcast in a 90-minute time period each week. Others, like High Chaparral and The Big Valley are typical of Sixties TV Westerns.

Traditional Westerns began to disappear from television in the late 1960s and early 1970s as

color television became ubiquitous, 1968 was the last season any new traditional Westerns debuted on television. By 1969, after pressure from parental advocacy groups who claimed Westerns were too violent for television, all three of the major networks ceased airing new Western series. The two last traditional Westerns on the air, Death Valley Days and Gunsmoke, ended their runs in 1975.

EPISODES FILMED IN LONE PINE Adventures of Champion “Andrew and the Deadly Double” Season 1 Episode 21 “Crossroad Trail” Season 1 Episode 2 Adventures To The Edge (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) “Kidnapped Climbers” October 12, 2004 Bonanza “The Pursued Part 1” “The Pursued Part 2” Annie Oakley “The Dude Stagecoach” ”Annie and the Brass Collar” “Annie and the Lily Maid” “Valley of the Shadows” 1954 Episode 11 Buffalo Bill Jr. “Legacy of Jesse James” “The Little Mavericks” “The Black Ghost” Episode 5 Cheyenne “The Travelers” 1956 Episode 6 Cimmaron Strip Death Valley Days “The Last Stagecoach Robbery” “The Lost Pegleg Mine.”

Death Valley Days Gene Autry Show “The Old Prospector” (#3-04 1st broadcast 08/04/53) “Gypsy Wagon”(#3-07: 1st broadcast 08/25/53) “Steel Ribbon” (#3-11: broadcast 9/22/53 “Rio Renegades” (3-12: broadcast 9/23/53) “Ransom Cross” (#3-13: broadcast 10/6/53) “Johnny Jackaroo” (#4-02 1st broadcast 7/13/54) “The Sharpshooter” (4-5: broadcast 8/3/54) “Talking Guns” (#4-6: broadcast 8/10/54) “Outlaw of Blue Mesa” (4-10: broadcast 9/7/54) “Civil War in Deadwood” (#4-11: broadcast 9/14/54) “The Million Dollar Fiddle” (#5-01 1st broadcast 10/01/55) “The Golden Chariot” (#5-05 1st broadcast 10/29/55) Have Gun, Will Travel “The Outlaw” “In an Evil Time”

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“The Wager” “Treasure Trail” “The Golden Toad” “The Education of Sarah Jane” “The Revenger” “Ben Ja Jalisco” “The Brothers” “Invasion” (stock footage) “The Bride” “Long Way Home” (check) “The Marshal’s Boy” “The Posse” “The Calf” “Crowbait” “Quiet Night on Town part 1 and 2 (#1 has LP) “Road to Wickenberg” “Pandora’s Box” (Bishop) “Sweet Lady of the Moon” (Bishop) The Lone Ranger – CLAYTON MOORE “The Wooden Gun” “Code of Honor” JOHN HART (many have LP Footage, second unit) “Desperado at Large” Delayed Acxtion” “The Condemened Man” “Trader Boggs” “Death in the Forest” “Gunpowder Joe” “Old Bailey” The Range Rider “West of Cheyenne” “The Holy Terror” Red Ryder pilot Sky King “Rocket Story 1956 Episode 35 (Season 2, Episode 16) “Golden Burro” 1956 Episode 28 (Season 2, Episode 9 “Bad Actor” 1958 Episode 43 (Season 3, Episode 4) “The Neckerchief” 1956 Episode 20 (Season 2, Episode 1) “Geiger detective” 1958 Episode 27 (Season 2, Episode 8) The Virginian Wagon Train “The Gus Morgan Story” f

Team Roping is Back for 2016 “Small Town Rodeo; Big Time Fun” is the theme of this year’s Lone Pine Film Festival Rodeo, taking place all day Saturday, Oct. 8, at the historic Lone Pine Rodeo Grounds, just behind the Museum. Sign-ups begin at 7:30 a.m.

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

Join our regional cowboys for an exciting afternoon of team roping. Known also as “heading and heeling,” this event 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 a “half head.” The second is the “heeler,” who ropes the steer by its hind feet.

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.

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Board of Directors Cheryl Rogers Barnett Ted Bosley Jay Ortega Judy Fowler Jaque Hickman Chris Langley Robert Palazzo Travis Powell Robert Sigman Packy Smith Dean Vander Wall

Cheers

Many thanks to the Lone Pine Film Festival

Celebrating its 27th year in film history!

Kerry Powell, Artist & Festival Founder

Lone Pine Film Festival

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The Museum of Western Film History has created marketing materials to expand the museum’s brand identitywith tourists and film festival guests.

Director Bob SigmWan described the new graphic decals. “We felt that the new artwork developed for this year’s film festival (vintage camera car in Alabama Hills) incorporating an image of the 1928 RKO camera car we recently acquired, perfectly represented the museum’s filmmaking heritage.”

Sigman said the images of the camera car were unique.

“We wanted to do more with it,” he said. What came out of discussions was the development of a circular 12-inch window sign that could be used all year round to welcome tourists.

Complementing this, festival organizers designed a

4-inch festival graphic decal that emphasizes our community welcome to the festival guests and acknowledges the support of our business sponsors.

A similar festival decal is available to all retailers. f

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Original wire wheels are in very good shape and, as noted, new tires will be installed. The metal rails that hold camera mounts and accessories are also in good shape – one says “Shepherd” and the other says “Hollywood Scene Dock” (see photos above), two companies that have been out of business for many years. Gas tanks are located on both sides.

Through generous donations, and support of the museum board, we were able to acquire the car and transport it from Shawnee. Preliminary restoration work was done in Lone Pine with the assistance of Jeff Ray, Tony Chavez, Richard Wren and David Mull. Doug Brown of Brown’s Salvage in Bishop had his team sandblast the years of rust and paint off. Tib Wilkinson’s team at Inyo-Mono Body painted the car black.

We will soon have the RKO emblem painted on the doors, to pay tribute to the car’s original heritage. After the Festival we will work on the interior, and local Lone Piners will take a shot at getting the 1953/1954 Cadillac 331 V8 back in service.

The museum is fortunate to have a few large reflectors, lights and other standard accessories that were typical for camera cars. We are in talks with a few collectors to add some additional features, hopefully adding a few Mitchell cameras, typical of the era, to complete the exhibit. f

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Western Film History in Lone Pine is 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.

Thanks to all!

For a complete listing:

www.lonepinefilmfestival.org/sponsors

Best Western Frontier Boulder Creek RV Comfort Inn Coso Geothermal Dow Villa Motel Gardner’s True Value Hardware Sierra Storage Alex Printinwg Amerigas/Lone Pine Propane Brown’s Supply/ Brown’s Salvage Coca-Cola El Dorado Savings Bank High Country Lumber Inyo Mono Auto Body Shop Inyo Mono Title Co. Lone Pine Communications Lone Pine Rocks & Gifts McDonald’s Pizza Factory Martin Powell Sierra Reader

Art Hickman High Sierra Distributing, Inc. Lisa & Wyatt McCrea Lone Pine Feed & Garden Supplies Mammoth KMMT-KRHV McGee Creek Pack Station Merry Go Round Restaurant Miller’s Towing Susan Ortega Portal Motel Timberline Motel Totem Cafe Trails Motel Beverly & Dean Vander Wall

Special Thanks:

Alta One Federal Credit Union California Writer’s Exchange Carl’s Jr. Crystal Geyser Designs Unlimited Gillespie Distributing Inyo Council for the Arts Joseph’s Bi-Rite Market Ken Taylor KIBS/KBOV Lee’s Frontier Gas, Liquor & Deli Linda Kimball Sierra Wave Mt. Whitney Motel Portal Preserve Kerry Powell Rio Tinto Minerals Rob Word Xanterra Furnace Creek Resort

Bureau of Land Management California Department of Transportation California Highway Patrol Community Printing County of Inyo Inyo County Board of Supervisors and 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 and Power Doug Brown Matt Helt Jaque & Art Hickman Peter Mason Jack Minton Dave Mull Jeff Ray Chuck Scimeca Marc Wanamaker Peggy Whitehair Tib Wilkinson

Barbara Bahl Eastern Sierra Shuttle Service Eastern Sierra Wholesalers Linda & Diamond Farnsworth Carole Freeman & Sharon McBryde Frosty Chalet Nan & Dick Gering The Grill

Museum of Western Film History Board of Directors: Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Ted Bosley, Jay Ortega, Judy Fowler, Jaque Hickman, Chris Langley, Robert Palazzo, Travis Powell, Robert Sigman, Packy Smith, Dean Vander Wall, Museum of Western Film History staff and festival tour guides and volunteers

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