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Showing posts with label movie making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie making. Show all posts
June 12, 2022

What It Was Like to be an Extra in "Junior Bonner"

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Sam Peckinpah was in Prescott directing the 199th movie made in Yavapai County, “Junior Bonner, when he noticed a nude painting titled “Olym...
August 29, 2021

Prescott's Best Early Movie

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  If newspaper reviews are any indication, “The Power of Silence” (the sixth movie made in Prescott) was the best one Lubin produced there i...
May 23, 2021

The Forgotten Westerns of Prescott: 1912

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This article was inspired by the hard work of Tom Slaback, whose comprehensive list of the movies made in Prescott lives on the Sharlot Hall...
February 27, 2021

First Movie Made in Prescott: The Cringer

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The only surviving image from "The Cringer" There are no known surviving copies of the first movie filmed in Yavapai County. Howev...
June 16, 2019

That's My Daddy! (at Frontier Days)

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Lester Ruffner, Arena Director, Frontier Days Early etiquette at movie theaters was sacred. People paid good money to watch and demande...
January 20, 2019

Hollywood's First Child-Star Was a Prescott Girl

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Virginia Lee (born LaVerne) Corbin On March 2nd, 1910, the Weekly Journal-Miner reported that Mrs. LE Corbin, wife of a wealthy busines...
December 2, 2018

1921: The Birth of the Smoki People

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As the end of the 20th century approached, Smoki ceremonies, performed by Anglos disguised as Native Americans, became increasingly contro...
May 14, 2015

Prescott was Hollywood for Silent Westerns

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(Tom Mix with an unknown starlet in an unknown film.) What do these movies: "Creepshow 2," "Universal Soldier," ...