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Silent movie cowboy William S. Hart, Hollywood pioneer Thomas H. Ince and the 1917 Western "The Silent Man": Some of the earliest images of the Iverson Movie Ranch to be captured on film

I recently found a silent Western produced under the supervision of legendary studio mogul Thomas H. Ince and filmed on the Iverson Movie Ra...

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Perils Tower — a fake rock that made its presence felt in the movies of the early 1940s

"Perils of Nyoka" (Republic serial, 1942) I've had a request for more information about Perils Tower since I first mentioned t...

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Where did John Ford film the sequence in "The Grapes of Wrath" where the Joads get their first look at California's rich farmland?

Promo still for "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940): Overlook Point A famous promo shot for John Ford's Depression-era classic "...
Off the Beaten Path: The Barkley family mansion and barn in "The Big Valley" — and where in tarnation did they drop off Miss Kitty in "Gunsmoke"?

The Barkley family mansion, as seen in the title sequence for "The Big Valley" (1965-1969) It's fairly well-known that the Bar...
Connecting the dots between the Iverson Ranch and its infamous neighbor the Spahn Movie Ranch, once home to the Manson Family

"Linda and Abilene" (1969): Spahn Ranch The Spahn Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., which became notorious as the home of Charles...
Beautiful color images of the Iverson Movie Ranch from the final season of "The Lone Ranger"

"The Lone Ranger" (1957): Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels on the Lower Iverson The TV show "The Lone Ranger" aired jus...
Years before the TV show "Adventures of Superman" premiered, a different Superman flew all over the Iverson Movie Ranch

Kirk Alyn, the screen's first live-action Superman (Columbia promo still for the serial "Superman," 1948) The first live-acti...
Was Gary Cooper the first person to play the swimming pool game "Marco Polo"?

Clip from "The Adventures of Marco Polo" (1938) As a footnote to the recent post about the 1938 Gary Cooper movie "The Advent...
Glenn Strange and his "Strange Rock": Sam the Bartender on "Gunsmoke" wasn't always such a nice guy — just ask the Lone Ranger!

"Gunsmoke": Glenn Strange as Sam the Bartender Fans of "Gunsmoke" know Glenn Strange mainly as Sam Noonan, the mild-mann...
Bird's-eye view of Chatsworth, Calif., in the 1920s offers a glimpse at movie history

Aerial photo of Chatsworth, Calif., circa 1920s I found an old bird's-eye view of Chatsworth, Calif., at the library, and while it's...
Johnny Mack Brown on the rocks: Did any Hollywood cowboy ever work more intimately with the rugged landscape of the Iverson Movie Ranch?

Johnny Mack Brown on the Lower Iverson ("Blazing Bullets," 1951) Of all the cowboy action heroes of the B-Western heyday, I'd ...
The Iverson Movie Ranch Western street, one building at a time ... Part XVI: The decline and fall of the Western street

"The Lone Ranger" TV series: "Ghost Town Fury" (aired March 28, 1957) It may seem morbid to devote the final entry in th...

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