Hopalong CassidyOne of the most important characters associated with Lone Pine is Clarence E. Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy. On the page he was a hard drinking, tobacco chewing, rough talking character with a limp that made him “Hop-a-long.”
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Lone Pine Film History Museum
The Beverly and Jim Rogers Lone Pine Film History Museum’s, located at 701 South Main Street in Lone Pine, California, celebrates and preserves the diverse movie history of Lone Pine, Death Valley and the Eastern Sierra.
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Where the Real West Becomes the Reel West
The Lone Pine Film History Museum is dedicated to preserving the diverse movie history of Lone Pine, Death Valley and California's Eastern Sierra. Located on Highway 395 on the south end of town, the museum’s 10,500 square feet of exhibits, an eighty-five seat movie theater and gift shop offer visitors a unique visual experience, helping to document and interpret the cultural heritage of America’s cinematic history, through film programs, artifact preservation and exhibits including interpretive projects and displays that explain the 100 year film history of Inyo County. The Museum's exhibits represent a collection of historic memorabilia documenting many of the 700 plus films that have featured our landscape.
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The Art of Buck Taylor
Preserving and celebrating the heritage of the American West is the driving force behind Buck’s career as a watercolor artist. On movie locations he found himself sketching and painting during breaks in filming.
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Explore, the museum's extensive collection of real movie costumes, movie cars, props, posters, and other memorabilia. This collection tells the story of filming in the area in and around Lone Pine from the early days of the Round Up to the modern blockbusters of today such as Iron Man. While you're here, don't forget to make the short trip up Whitney Portal Road and take the Self-Guided Tour of Movie Road and get a first hand look at real shooting locations of a great many motion pictures filmed in the beautiful Alabama Hills. You can download the Movie Road Self-Guided Tour booklet from BLM here.
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In honor of the public’s 70-year love affair with John Wayne, American Cowboy is re-releasing an expanded and improved edition of the “John Wayne Collector’s Edition.”
The definitive “John Wayne Collector’s Edition” includes:
• PHOTO ESSAY: From the set of “The Cowboys.”
• TRAVEL: “Monumental Beauty,” a feature about
William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic WingS≪/i> (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill managed to finish the big-budget war saga by inventing many of the techniques still
(2011) One hundred years ago, Leonard Franklin Slye was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His family later moved to the small hamlet of Duck Run, where they worked a farm that produced a meager living. Young Len wanted a lot more from life, and he eventually got it—as Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, hero to millions of American children and a star of